My work at CSP is focused on communities and social participation. My interests are mainly about ICT in education: I manage a regional project for a schools network, calledDschola in which schools supported schools. CSP worked also within a Latin America /European project for promoting practices exchange among teachers about ICT at school and open source software adoption (2005, in Buenos Aires). In 2005 I started the KEILab project about elearning and OSS: we made a survey on about one hundred of open source LCMS and compared them. The KEILab also developed an integrated enviroment, adopting an enterprise 2.0 paradigm, using multiblog (ELGG), wiki (Twiki), social bookmarking, that shared RSS and TAG. KEIlab also supported the Dept of Economy of University of Torino, in the Arcipelago Project; the idea was to combine open source software(ZOPE/PLONE) to develop 1)open repository for open content 2) aa learning management system - trying to adopt a learning 2.0 approach 3) an authoring tools supportint faculties in creating courseware SCORM compliant.
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Short description: School, University, Library are facing a crisis in their traditional role, also if in my opinion is not only a matter related with technology. Digital divide could be a matter of lack of money or a lack of culture/education: seeimingly everyone could speak and say everything he/she likes. We live in a world made of complex networks in which the most important issue is that we don't know what we don't know. The most important tools for informal learning today is Google. So we need not to bury contents in repositories or LCMS. There are thousand of education chunks (almost in English) that we don't know how to reach.
1)One proposal is to realize an XML tool using RSS and Sitemaps technology for grabbing from University and Schools and Private LMS data of the available course (title, outline, license, ...) In this way almost unheard Open Contents will be promoted (many Italian Faculty give their courseware for free but as they are not inside an institutional projects, only their students are aware of it).
2) Asking to 100 world class testimonials to donate some of their works for free- cercare 100 testimonials prestigiosi 'OPEN CONTENT - OPEN TEC- OPEN LIC - fare un video promo e un sito per la "donazione"
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Open Technology
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Open Content / Licensing
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Open Pedagogy
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