[school-discuss] workshop at Didamatica

[Paolo Pumilia <paolo_pumilia@tin.it>]

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"Open source Contents and Technologies"

The workshop aims at a deepened understanding of open source
by addressing expectations from scholars and teachers,
as producers and users of digital contents.

  The workshop will be held at the Didamatica congress :
  http://www.expoe-learning.net/expo2004/didamatica.htm
  (The partecipation fee is 70 E)
  Official languages are english and italian
  More info here: http://linfe.it/events/opencontent-11may2004


Here enclosed
  -  The extended 'open source' definition, provided to
     the invited speakers, instrumental in stimulating contributions.
     Your commets to improveit will be welcome.
  -  The programme


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Paolo Pumilia
AICA OpenSource Working Group coordinator



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Open Source

A more extensive definition

The essential features of the open source phenomenon are summarized by
peculiar collaborative ways, established within a freely accessible
digital infrastructure, aimed at assembling and delivering 'knowledge
objects'.

Such methodologies, that have firstly proved to be successful in
specialized fields of software production, are based on the belief that
knowledge cannot be considered as exclusive property of those who made
the discover and that inventors will benefit, in terms of feedback from
peers and on the financial side as well, by spreading out the attained
results, under the least restrictions as possible, while exploiting the
international law to preserve authorship.

The economical implications, in short, are that the exchange value of
the traded knowledge objects boils down to production and distribution
costs of the physical supports, which are vanishingly small in the
digital environment, while demand for professional services can be
greatly enhanced.

Several production areas can be affected by the open source
methodologies:. The workshop will deal with the following:

* technological production

   * Users gain control over technological development. They are allowed
   to freely form alliance come to an agreement with professionals to
   adapt, customize and improve purchased products.

   * Businesses compete on a more equal (non monopolistic) ground and
   exploit more efficient development methodologies, across company and
   national borders.

* education

   * People have access to the most advanced knowledge a no cost; more
   remarkably, grasping is made easier by modularity of knowledge objects
   and free cross linking through the web resources.

   * People with teaching attitudes are encouraged to produce educational
   materials, while exploitation of knowledge already packaged by others
   is unrestricted; professional abilities are valued and collaboration
   across institutional borders is fostered.

* scientific research

   * Researchers are allowed to easily access results, analyse data and
   establish correlations through a wide variety of sources without
   restrictions.

   * Evaluation of scientific contributions by properly taking
   the number of accesses throught the web into account can be as
   authoritative as the opinion of institutional commitees.

   * Cross-disciplinary communication is ehnanced



Paolo Pumilia

Didamatica - Ferrara Univ. 2004
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Open source contents and technologies

Workshop - Didamatica 2004
Ferrara University - May 11
http://www.expoe-learning.net/expo2004/didamatica.htm

AICA OpenSource working group
http://linfe.it/events

Open source contents   9:00 - 11:15

   * Towards an extensive understanding of open source

     Paolo Pumilia

     AICA OpenSource working group

   * Copyright and open contents

     Marco Ciurcina

     Creative Commons Europe

   * Open contents in education - from shared authoring to
     shared use

     Teemu Leinonen - Media Lab, Learning Environments
     research group - University of Art and Design -
     Helsinki

   * Open Source Content: The School Network's Perspective

     Riina Vuorikari

     Research Analyst - European Schoolnet

   * Open Source: the Goals, the Tools, and the Culture

     Paul G. Mezey

     Secretary General, CODATA (ICSU/UNESCO) /
     International Council for Science - Committee for
     Data in Science and Technology CODATA


Open source technologies  14:30 - 16:15


   * Open technologies for e-Learning

     F. Kaderali

     FernUniversität FG Kommunikationssysteme - Hagen

   * Open contents for democratic open societies

     Bill Yotive

     Global School Networks Alliance

     Project Manager Global Teaching and Learning
     Project - United Nations Headquarters, New York

   * ICTs in Education - UNESCO Vision and Activities

     Tarek G. Shawki

     CI Regional Advisor for Arab States UNESCO Cairo Office

   * Open Source goes education - do the educators and
     trainers follow?

     Juergen van Capelle

     ESTA Training Institute - collaboration and
     transnational educational and vocational training projects.

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