There’s a hilarious spoof of the Cape Town Declaration on Open Education on the iCommons listserv. Gave me a good laugh, and definitely worth a read.

I say hilarious, because the spoof really is funny. However, the spoof is also deeply disappointing because its subtext is a completely irrational, anti-sustainability mindset that is the single biggest threat to the success of the open education movement. (more…)

Today is the launch of the Cape Town Declaration on Open Education! There’s already been lots of commentary; I’ve blogged some of it before. (e.g., Stephen is among the critics.) I expect there will be lots more commentary now that the Declaration has actually launched. I’ll be doing my best to blog it all over the next several months.

If you haven’t signed the declaration yet please do so! You can encourage others with this banner:
<a href="http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/" title="Open Education - Cape Town Declaration"><img src="http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/opencontent/support-capetown.png" alt="Open Education - Cape Town Declaration" align="right" border="0" />

If the banner is too big for your taste you can also use this little button. <a href="http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/" title="Cape Town Declaration on Open Education Button"><img src="http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/opencontent/cape-town-button.png" alt="Cape Town Declaration on Open Education Button" align="right" border="0" /></a>