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The free schooling credo:

What is the purpose of education?

• To whom is this question asked; a word on audience
• A review of classical approaches to this question
• A review of modern approaches to this question
• A discussion of ethics, non-negotiable and negotiable principles
• Politicization and bias
• Education as a human right
• The difficulties presented with formal schooling
• The difficulties with State-based schooling
• Citizens, people, and participants

What is free schooling and how does it contribute to education?

• A brief review of informal and formal leadership theory
• A brief review of informal and formal authority
• Free schooling and 'follower as leader' theory
• Free schooling and 'informal as formal' theory
• Home-schooling, State-based schooling, and informal schooling
• Traditionally under-served communities
• Assessment, pedagogy, and curricular design

Why is free schooling needed?

• The difficulties with open terminology
• A brief review of open-education and schooling history
• The difficulties with open-source licenses; a critique of software licensing
• The difficulties with copyright, patent law, and intellectual property; a critique of open documentation licensing
• The Free Software and Documentation licenses
• The problems with MOOCs
• Pearson, kernels, and privacy rights; the difficulties of State oversight
• Current solutions to the problem;
  1. Ordered List ItemBeing radically free; a critique of the OERu
  2. The Open Schoolhouse; a critical review
  3. The democratizing of schools; a critical review
  4. Blended learning, Khan Academy, and other models
• Unordered List ItemUnordered List ItemThe credo of free schooling; free resources, design, and outcomes

Who does free schooling serve?

• Unordered List ItemA review of organizational classifications and authority
• A review of organizational classifications and leadership
• Informal free associations and authority
• Informal free associations and leadership
• Service, philanthropy, and volunteerism; an architectonic review
• Participants, freedom, and learning
• Instructional leadership as a follower; empowering people
• A detailed analysis and review of the free schooling credo

— oemb1905 2019/12/29 14:41