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This enables citizen-scientists, who in turn empower open collaborative projects. It removes the exclusivity of professions and opens up scientific and other knowledge to the citizenry as a whole. | This enables citizen-scientists, who in turn empower open collaborative projects. It removes the exclusivity of professions and opens up scientific and other knowledge to the citizenry as a whole. | ||
Latest revision as of 17:27, 25 May 2011
Taking learning out of exclusive institutions and into a free and open domain dissolves the hard-and-fast distinction between someone who is 'in education' and someone who is not. If anyone has access to any curriculum, then anyone who takes an interest in it becomes a student, regardless of age or a formal enrolment process.
This enables citizen-scientists, who in turn empower open collaborative projects. It removes the exclusivity of professions and opens up scientific and other knowledge to the citizenry as a whole.
