note: Wayne Mackintosh, WikiEducator: Memoirs, Myths, Misrepresentations and the Magic.Originally submitted April 4th, 2007 to the OSS and OER in Education Series, Terra Incognita blog (Penn State World Campus), edited by Ken Udas.
We're living in exciting times! The free culture 1 , mass collaboration 2 , and self organisation 3 are transforming traditional models of society and the economy in fundamental ways. I don't pretend to have the answers, but I'm confident that the convergence among these forces combined with the shifts from organisational hierarchy to the individual will help us find the answers together. Finding the answers, holds huge promise for radically advancing access to education and knowledge. I use radical 4 in the original sense of the word referring to the radix or root of fundamental change as opposed to revolutionary change.
This is a post about freedom and how it can support education as a common good. If you suffer from hypertension best to read this post under parental guidance. Now that I've cleared the health warnings, I want to move onto the more important stuff.
“In education, if you give knowledge away freely - you will still have it for yourself to use.”
This is why Sir John Daniel 5 of the Commonwealth of Learning (COL 6 ) argues that education will not suffer the tragedy of the commons.
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