The platform for open education

Information about the project

  • “Learning how to learn is life’s most important skill.”

    Tony Buzan
  • “A good educational system should empower all who want to share what they know to find those who want to learn it from them.”

    Ivan Illich
  • „Die einzige Rettung für Frauen aus der Unterschicht oder einer anderen Kultur oder beidem ist Bildung.”

    Reyhan Şahin
  • “Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money in that order; it is a process, a never ending one”

    Bel Kaufman
  • “If you get, give. If you learn, teach.”

    Maya Angelou
  • “You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.”

    Abraham Lincoln
  • “If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people”

    Chinese Proverb
  • “If you are planning for generations help or make people educate themselves”

    Openki
  • “The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action”

    Herbert Spencer
  • “Education is not received. It is achieved.”

    Albert Einstein
  • “Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.”

    Chinese Proverb
  • “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

    Margaret Mead
  • “Learning how to learn is life’s most important skill.”

    Tony Buzan
  • “A good educational system should empower all who want to share what they know to find those who want to learn it from them.”

    Ivan Illich

Media Coverage

Paperplanes

nau.ch covers the paper plane day with Martin Flueeler. In the morning newbies learned about the principles and techniques of paper plane folding and the most courageous people gave the Batschovolante, a price winning design of Martin a try. Zürich trifft sich zum Papierfliegerbasteln Hier der komplette Beitrag von Nau.ch  

Openki on the Radio

A short radio emission in German (and Swissgerman) on Radio Bern about the founding of the plattform Openki.net and its idea of establishing a network for skill-sharing and horizontal educational exchange without commercial or powerpolitical motives.