The Cape Town Declaration on Open Education was recently formally released to the public (1, 2) after its initial release for comments to the educational community last fall in the wake of the Cape Town conference.

It is a formal declaration of basic principles for the future conduct of education and organized teaching using standards of open content and sharing of resources, information, and curriculum. In part, it says:

This emerging open education movement combines the established tradition of sharing good ideas with fellow educators and the collaborative, interactive culture of the Internet. It is built on the belief that everyone should have the freedom to use, customize, improve and redistribute educational resources without constraint…
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