Archive for October, 2009

Wikiknowledge, distance learning and open source curriculum.

National boundaries and national school policies are decreasing in importance as new models of organization, learning, cooperation and production (both knowledge and industrial based), are evolving through community, collaboration and self-organization. Students already access much of the information they use in school from online sources. Even the boundaries between when a student is learning (i.e. [...]

Danish schools fail UN convention standards.

The Danish public school system does not live up to the standards defined in articles 28, 29 & 30 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1), with reference to minority groups. The convention, which has been ratified by every member country of the United Nations except the United States and [...]