Open Content for Learning
To be in the flow of the Golden Swamp content must be free and open to all.

Because the interconnectivity of knowledge has migrated to the Internet, taking part in the global virtual knowledge ecology requires opening content beyond the walls of institutions of learning. Click back and forth between open and shut above to see this principle illustrated in a simple way.

"For millennia access to much of the world's knowledge has been limited to the rich and powerful. The Internet creates the opportunity to reduce inequalities, if the information on the Internet is open and free. Judy Breck provides a comprehensive and compelling introduction to a rapidly growing worldwide movement to make this opportunity a reality."
—Marshall (Mike) Smith, education program director, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, former Under Secretary US Department of Education, former dean Stanford University