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Cape Town Open Education Declaration

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to "accelerate efforts to promote open resources, technology, and teaching practices in education". Individuals and organizations that sign the Declaration share its "statement of principle, a statement of strategy and a statement of commitment".
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Late last year in Cape Town, we joined delegates from around the world as we reached a consensus on both the ideals and approaches to Open Education and committed them in the Cape Town Open Education Declaration, which was released officially
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As of January 2014, over 2,400 individuals and 250 organisations (including the
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The declaration was released officially on January 22, 2008.
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Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
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open access
open education
open educational resources
Cape Town
Shuttleworth Foundation
Open Society Institute
Wikimedia Foundation
Budapest Open Access Initiative
UNESCO 2012 Paris OER Declaration
"OLCOS and the Cape Town Open Education Declaration"
Cape Town Open Education Declaration
"Bringing open resources to textbooks and teaching"
Archived
wmf:Minutes/2007-12-11
"View Signatures"
Text of the Declaration
Audio version of the Declaration
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Open access
History
Timeline
Gratis versus libre
Subscription business model
Subscribe to Open
Paywall
Copyright transfer agreement
Academic journal
Scientific journal

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