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Some thoughts on the way the term 'open' has changed in meaning for education over the years. It explores the concept of the open scholar and the benefits of making sharing the default action for an academic.
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Reflections on openness
Martin Weller
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The OU
The Open University is open to people, places, methods and ideas.
We got lucky!
By psd http://www.flickr.com/photos/psd/3717444865/
If you were starting an OU now…• Open source• Open educational
resources• Open teaching/courses• Open research• Open systems• Open technology
The Open Scholar
The traditional scholar, like the scholarship he or she produces, isn't open--open-minded, hopefully, but not "open" in a public way. No, a typical scholar is very exclusive, available only to students in specific academic programs or through toll-access scholarly publications that are essentially unavailable to all but the most privileged. In the digital age, the traditional barriers to accessing scholars or scholarship are unnecessary, but persist for institutional reasons.Gideon Burton – Academicevolution.com
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Sharing as default
embed
links
promotes
automatic
favourites
comments
subscribesdiscusses
retweets
The cost of sharing has disappeared
…but we act as if it hasn’t
Remember Cassette tapes? - http://www.flickr.com/photos/erica_marshall/2666112988/
How often do we use this type of sharing in our teaching or research?
Sharing by ryancr http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryanr/142455033/
The lessons
① Sharing transforms practice② A new form of artefact is
created ③ Presentations are social objects④ The audience is distributed⑤ It’s a learning object/OER
A reciprocity economy
An everyday tale of openness
Blog use matrix
Translated, reformatted
Drag and drop Flash version
Reused for teaching
Wiki version
See more Amazing Stories of Openness athttp://cogdogblog.com/stuff/opened09/
5 Principles of social media learning
By Michael Ruiz http://www.flickr.com/photos/simax/3390895249/
1. <embed> is the universal acid of the web – we should build around it
2. Simple with reach trumps complex with small audience
3. Sharing is a motivation to participation
4. Start simple and let others build on top
5. Complexity comes from the network not the app
If true what does it mean?
How do we transform education to take advantage of these?
• In what aspects of your academic life are you not open? Why?
• Does your institution place obstacles to openness?
• What would it take to convince you to be more open?
• What are your concerns?