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    How to make money the open-source-way, but keep the commons alive? – Question 7 of 10 on ‚learning by sharing’

    Posted on March 16, 2015 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn by Balthas

    Open innovation – often based on open licensing and commons-approaches – is changing the business models of more and more businesses and social institutions. Before the advent of open innovation, innovation was kept within the boundaries of the firm (or research institution). In contrast, “Open innovation is a paradigm that assumes that firms can and […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn Tagged business model, capacities, Capacity Development, commons, commons-based peer production, competencies, connections, development, empowerment, find, freedom, freedom to learn, GIZ, hubs, human development, IT sector promotion, knowledge, knowledge commons, knowledge sharing, learning systems, motivation, motive, motives, open innovation, open source, ownership, P2P, P2PU, peer-to-peer, peer-to-peer learning, scaling up, self-governance, self-sustainability, sharing, skills, tacit knowledge, trust Leave a comment

    Where to find free knowledge for open innovation in development? – Question 6 of 10 on ‚learning by sharing’

    Posted on January 11, 2015 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn by Balthas

    In previous blog entries, I talked a lot about commons-based peer production and learning in areas crucial to development cooperation such as Energy, Health, Education etc. A key question then is where to find such “free knowledge” for open innovation and for peer-production in the different sectors of human development? I have collected an annotated compendium […]

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    Peer-producing knowledge: a game-changer for development cooperation? – Question 5 of 10 on ‚learning by sharing’

    Posted on November 22, 2014 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn by Balthas

    Some critics argue that commons-based peer production and learning only apply in the digital, non-real world (“building websites”, “building online training material”). The concept, they say, is therefore less of interest to international and development cooperation, which focuses on non-digital environments and “hard” topics such as health, energy or agriculture. Jaime from Bolivia and John […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn Tagged Africa, agency, capacities, Capacity Development, commons-based peer production, competencies, connections, connectivism, development, empowerment, energypedia, freedom, freedom to learn, GIZ, global transformation, human development, ict@innovation, IT sector promotion, knowledge, knowledge commons, learning systems, OECD, open innovation, ownership, P2P, P2PU, peer-to-peer, peer-to-peer learning, scaling up, self-governance, self-sustainability, sharing, skills, tacit knowledge, trust, UNESCO 1 Comment

    What makes learning communities self-governed & fun? – Question 4 of 10 on ‚learning by sharing’

    Posted on October 1, 2014 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn by Balthas

    Frank Tilugulilwa is an IT trainer in Tanzania. He teaches local IT companies how to build services and revenues around so-called “Free and Open Source Software”. Such software can be copied and modified by every company and every individual client. Frank has written a training manual with over 80 other IT trainers and experts throughout […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn Tagged Africa, agency, capacities, Capacity Development, commons-based peer production, competencies, connections, connectivism, development, empowerment, energypedia, freedom, freedom to learn, GIZ, global transformation, human development, ict@innovation, IT sector promotion, knowledge, knowledge commons, learning systems, OECD, open innovation, ownership, P2P, P2PU, peer-to-peer, peer-to-peer learning, scaling up, self-governance, self-sustainability, sharing, skills, tacit knowledge, trust, UNESCO Leave a comment

    How to build learning communities, that work peer-to-peer? – Question 3 of 10 on ‚learning by sharing’

    Posted on September 22, 2014 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn by Balthas

    In the field of online sharing and learning, the “Massive Open Online Course” (“MOOC”) has received a lot of attention. Many are enthusiastic about what elite universities such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Harvard are piloting. The two schools have offered joint online courses that have attracted well over 100,000 […]

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    What makes people share knowledge? – Question 2 of 10 on ‚learning by sharing’

    Posted on September 6, 2014 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn by Balthas

    Why do peers help peers to share and co-produce knowledge? Research suggests that there is a whole set of motivations that makes people share their knowledge, a mixture between altruistic and self-serving motives summed up in the following table: 14 Reasons Why Peers Help Peers to Learn: Why Do They Share Their Knowledge? (Table 1) […]

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    What is commons-based peer learning? – Question 1 of 10 on ‚learning by sharing’

    Posted on September 2, 2014 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn by Balthas

    The Internet and with it the rise of social networks have enabled a radically innovative way of producing knowledge-related goods. Software can now be jointly written by thousands of developers as the operating system ‘Linux’ shows. The encyclopedia Wikipedia is updated by roughly 1.7 million contributors worldwide. Law professor Yochai Benkler has coined the term […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn Tagged capacities, Capacity Development, commons-based peer production, competencies, connections, connectivism, development, empowerment, freedom, freedom to learn, GIZ, global transformation, human development, IT sector promotion, knowledge, knowledge commons, learning systems, open innovation, ownership, P2P, P2PU, peer-to-peer, peer-to-peer learning, scaling up, self-governance, self-sustainability, sharing, skills, tacit knowledge, trust Leave a comment

    Let’s talk about “Learning by Sharing”

    Posted on July 2, 2014 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn, News on publications, Open Source & Africa by Balthas

    Today, I invite you to join the conversation on an article, which I just published on the issue of “Learning by sharing – how global communities cultivate skills and capacity through peer-production of knowledge“. I posit in this paper, that commons-based peer learning offers a trigger to enhance skills, competencies, connections, capacities, and the agency […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn, News on publications, Open Source & Africa Tagged Africa, agency, capacities, Capacity Development, commons-based peer production, competencies, connections, connectivism, development, empowerment, energypedia, freedom, freedom to learn, GIZ, global transformation, human development, ict@innovation, IT sector promotion, knowledge, knowledge commons, learning systems, OECD, open innovation, ownership, P2P, P2PU, peer-to-peer, peer-to-peer learning, scaling up, self-governance, self-sustainability, sharing, skills, tacit knowledge, trust, UNESCO Leave a comment

    The School of open just opened: Learn open practices, discuss Open Educational Resources, Open Access and more

    Posted on March 18, 2013 in Freedom to learn by Balthas

    News on an open course on openness by our friends from p2pu. Reproduced below: Why “open”? Universal access to and participation in research, education, and culture is made possible by openness, but not enough people know what it means or how to take advantage of it. We hear about Open Source Software, Open Educational Resources, […]

    Posted in Freedom to learn Tagged collaboration, copyright, creative commons, intellectual property, OER, open access, Open Educational Resources, openness, P2PU, school of open, wikipedia Leave a comment

    Learning Creative Learning – interesting new open online course by peer-to-peer university and the MIT Media Lab

    Posted on February 4, 2013 in Freedom to learn by Balthas

    The Peer-to-peer university (p2pu) has worked with GIZ’s Academy for international Cooperation (AIZ, where I work) last year on “Selbstlernen”. Now p2pu and the MIT Media Lab are experimenting with a new course approach on “Learning Creative Learning“. It’s being organized as a massive open online course, meaning everyone is invited to join. The organizers […]

    Posted in Freedom to learn Tagged creative learning, learning, Media Lab, MIT, MOOC, MOOCs, Open Educational Resources, open learning, P2P, P2PU, peer-to-peer Leave a comment

    Peer-to-peer learning with seven billion teachers – but: what motivates people to learn by themselves?

    Posted on July 2, 2012 in Freedom to learn by Balthas

    Last Friday, I had the chance to take part in some interesting discussions at the „Summer-Academy” of GIZ’s “Academy for International Cooperation“. The issue was “self-empowered and self-guided learning processes”. we learned at the event, that this paradigm transforms trainers into coaches for self-guided learning, requires different pedagogical methods and is fuelled by the open […]

    Posted in Freedom to learn Tagged learning, motivation, OER, Open Educational Resources, open learning, openness, P2P, P2PU, pedagogical methods, peer learning, peer-to-peer, peer-to-peer learning, peer-to-peer university, Phillip Schmidt, self-guided learning Leave a comment

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      1. pdai on Peer-producing knowledge: a game-changer for development cooperation? – Question 5 of 10 on ‚learning by sharing’31/10/2021

        Building that collaboration may be difficult for some people. so the project that will be built will be constrained at…

      2. Balthas on About24/09/2019

        Dear Wahdan, here ist the source of the Quote from the letter of Jefferson: http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_8s12.html

      3. Balthas on Emerging Schools of Thought on Commons-Based Peer Production – New Article Out24/09/2019

        Dear Winda, of course you can thare the guides - all is under open licenses. See below. Just Name the…

      4. Wahdan Arum Inawati on About12/08/2019

        how quotation of the parts of the letter of Jefferson on knowledge and property?

      5. WINDA EKA SAMODRA on Emerging Schools of Thought on Commons-Based Peer Production – New Article Out04/08/2019

        Thank you for this nice guide.This really helped me, keep posting! can i share it?

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