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education is vital getting rich is our lives
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sustains our communities and helps us grow into the future
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at least that's the idea truces
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education as we know it is failing millions around the world
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take Tondo for example he's a bright kid with big dreams
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but the education he's getting is holding him back you see
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time in school con to force the latest learning materials
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so he has to work with text books that a completely outdated
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to make matters worse tunnels teacher this also left using
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outdated information often without even realizing it
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and even if he manages to overcome
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this and get into college the cost to build lessons books
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and notes he needs land Tondo in a pilot debt
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it's not just under a this situation is being replayed in schools and colleges
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all around the world and so much education for me
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so how can we fix things the answer lies
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in open education dope in education
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is a global movement to the aims to bring quality education to teachers and
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students
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everywhere the basic idea is to put top
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much learning materials on the web that anyone can access for three
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you see unlike text books open aid resources could
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always be revised something never out-of-date
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teaches a given free license to adapt them and improved
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getting students exactly what they need to achieve their dreams
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as all open ed resources free to share
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schools are no longer limited by where they are
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or how much money I have and if you think
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open education doesn't make the grade think again
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open-ended responses are being created by the world's most respected
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institutions and scholars and the Obama administration is set to invest
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up to $2.3 million dollars in open-ended in the next four years
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alone from the highest branches of government
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right down to grassroots level open education
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is changing lives visits Creative Commons got
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all forward slash education to learn more