Learning takes place in countless environments beyond the traditional classroom. Increasingly, schools and universities are finding that the Internet brings opportunities to connect students with a variety of educational resources and learning communities. A proper introduction can enable students to take charge of their own education, ease career transitions, and establish a lifetime of non-academic learning.
Alongside advances in technology, the free license has greatly enhanced the global flow of information. Free licenses allow individuals and organizations to clearly assert their desire to see their work reused, thereby removing one of the greatest obstacles to collaboration among strangers. In the absence of this kind of clear assertion, the law (and common sense) would generally require any reuse to be accompanied by a formal agreement. The vibrant Internet communities that have emerged are largely independent of formal education, but their workings offer a wealth of insights and learning opportunities.
COLT is founded on the principle that academia benefits from connections with these informal learning communities. We believe that each has a great deal to learn from the other, and aim to fuel the production of useful, rigorous, and dynamic research into the further transformation of the educational experience.
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