Collaboration/sharing

"Perhaps the most important development (of the internet) will be the establishment of a funding program for online civic, educational, and cultural material." "The millions of children and adolescents who make up the firstgeneration to grow up with the internet, experience file sharingand downloads as the norm, rather than a novelty. They will have afundamentally different regard on copyright than their parents."  - Youth as E-citizens. Kathryn Montgomery. et al. (2004) Open innovation implies a form of cooperation and information sharing. The world wide web allows for quick and efficient dissemination of information. This will enable many people to assimilate and further develop this information. It ensures a rapid progress. It does not always have to be highly technological information. Even small things are shared. Cooking recipes on a website, games developed for a youth movement, and, why not, lesson plans and activities! When setting up a platform one should very carefully consider what the purpose is and who the people are that will work with it. Building a real social network is not obvious. A well thought out and substantiated concept is a necessity. Learning is becoming social and collaborative learning is becoming the norm. Peer learning implies learning from your friends... Other people have different skills and different interests, so everyone can learn from each other. From Wikipedia and openculture.com, to more organized forms of online learning, for example, the Open University, the world wide web offers a multitude of virtual learning environments. SOURCE - NWol (New World Of Learning)