Ismael Peña, e-Learning for Development: a model, ICTlogy.net, July 4, 2005. A dissertation for the Doctorate in the Information Society at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. From the abstract: 'Beginning with a very brief case study of a free e-learning for development project, the Campus for Peace of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, this paper will try and show how, thanks to the nature of nonprofit organizations, e-learning can solve most of the problems related to corporate training, education for development and e-advocacy for stakeholders. And this paper will try and show also how, just because of the nature of nonprofit organizations too, this can be done for free. A first part will deal with the free software movement....A second part will deal with the free content movement – not that it really holds this name – and the proliferation of licenses such as Creative Commons' that allow people and institutions use some contents for free under certain conditions. An interesting application of this content policy and content licenses is in the learning objects field, where there already is a significative development of learning objects repositories, most of them given away to the public commons. In a third part we will introduce the concept of the online volunteer....We will conclude by mixing the three components (technology, content and human resources) to create a free e-learning project model for nonprofits.'
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Peter Suber at 7/06/2005 01:26:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
