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Learning Commons: A Trend of A New Civic Discourse

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Learning Commons
Educational stakeholders grow collective learning resources, creating an alternative to public and private education. Such commons are common-pool resources that benefit the entire community but are vulnerable to depletion e.g. land (recall the pivotal “tragedy of the commons” argument). Various education stakeholders are framing learning resources — local community assets, schools, online curriculum databases — as education commons that need to be managed collectively (not privately or publicly) to maintain their long-term collective benefits.

Ways to Start Taking Action
  1. Network with people in other professional learning communities to share ideas about encouraging collaboration and system change
  2. Advocate reward structures that give teachers incentives for sharing and creating collective educational resources
  3. Contribute to the Open Educational Resource (OER) Commons, Curriki , or Wikieducator to exchange free teaching and learning content from with others around the world
  4. Explore how DC Voice is stengthening public voice in education
  5. Join the parents of Let Parents Choose in taking back more control of children's education

Lisa Petrides, President of the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education, speaks about OER commons and how to put the teaching and learning processes back into the hands of those who use it.

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