ABSTRACT
Open cultures become the necessary condition for the natural ecosystems as a whole, for the design of open progressive technological improvements and their political, epistemic, and ontological foundations. Open learning systems as interactive web environment need to be designed as a contemporary digital solution to school textbooks. This chapter offers protocols for networked learning and institutional emergence in the age of digital culture. In terms of the concept and metaphors of openness and their understanding by reference to Wittgenstein and Eco, people need to understand that learners, like readers, interpreters, and users require the freedom to play and actively construct the world of meaning. The rediscovery of openness in the information society, as Chris notes, is the end of a period when intellectual property seemed to be the dominant paradigm for understanding how knowledge and information might fit into the contemporary information society.
