Presentation

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Fourth On-line Meeting On Education and Free Software, EDUSOL 2008 h2>

"Knowledge society and free culture" h3>

From 10 to November 21, 2008 h4>

Presentation

Speaking of information technologies and communication model of free software represents a turning point that changing the prevailing model of production in developing software, but this change may be the least important.

The freedoms of use, learning, modification and redistribution mean an alternative in a world where the production of knowledge and intellectual property are a private good and perhaps the most precious. Today in the knowledge society with free software philosophy is adopted and adapted to the production of other cultural goods such as art or production of texts and videos.

Education is no exception, existing proposals ranging from the replacement of proprietary software for free, until more innovative ideas such as Wikipedia or open courses of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT's OpenCourseWare). Besides the structure and organization of the community are an example of himself as a non-formal education can promote and sustain the interest and how it can produce knowledge collaboratively.

This encounter online software and free education seeks exchange experiences, proposals and opinions between the educational community interested in free software in order to collaboratively produce a body of knowledge that allows us all to reflect on our actions and educational proposals.

For these reasons we convened today to make an effort to systematize our educational experiences with free software, think around them and create innovative proposals that will enable us all to benefit from the collaborative construction of knowledge.