The Cape Town Open Education Declaration is a major international statement on

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open education Open education is an educational movement founded on openness, with connections to other educational movements such as critical pedagogy, and with an educational stance which favours widening participation and inclusiveness in society. Open educa ...

and

open educational resources Open educational resources (OER) are Instructional materials, teaching, learning, and research materials intentionally created and Free license, licensed to be free for the end user to own, share, and in most cases, modify. The term "OER" descri ...

. It emerged from a conference on open education hosted in

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on 14 and 15 September 2007 by the

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and the

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. The aim of this meeting '' eing' to "accelerate efforts to promote open resources, technology, and teaching practices in education". Individuals and organizations that sign the Declaration share its "statement of principle, a statement of strategy and a statement of commitment".Cape Town Open Education Declaration
/ref> The declaration was released officially on January 22, 2008. As of January 2014, over 2,400 individuals and 250 organisations (including the

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) have signed the declaration.

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Text of the Declaration

Audio version of the Declaration
Open access statements Open content 2007 documents {{comm-stub

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