ISW: WikiSym '10, Openness as an asset: ... Don’t Let The Openness Door Hit You in the Ass (on the way in or out) Cc licensed flickr photo shared by boskizzi Disclaimer. I have nothing but utmost respect and admiration for the people who are stretching (literally) the concepts of what is a “course” by experimenting with the form of an “open course”, one with a set of students taking it for traditional credit,. but potentially more, maybe thousands (?)
Who can participate by the generosity (or interests) of people running the course. It is so much Dave-like to read Dave Cormier saying why he does it: I freely contribute my time to some courses, and am paid to teach others. I ‘believe’ that working in the open makes my own work better, gives me broader access to other people’s idea and, well, i find it fun. It tears at the silo-ed nature of courses, it aims to melt the walls enough to leverage the power of networked learning. So it’s all good stuff. I’m one of those people. But that negates the possibility that people pick and choose what they want to participate in. Openness is the only means of doing education. <div class="greet_block wpgb_cornered"><div class="greet_text"><div class="greet_image"><a href=" rel="nofollow"><img src=" alt="WP Greet Box icon"/></a></div>Hello there!
If you are new here, you might want to <a href=" rel="nofollow"><strong>subscribe to the RSS feed</strong></a> for updates on this topic. <div style="clear:both"></div></div></div> Open education, open educational resources, and open source software should be household names. I just finished watching David Wiley‘s TEDxNYED talk on YouTube via my iPad, and I am inspired as a result. I loved his image of the 2 year old having a tantrum, and comparing that to our tendency as educators and citizens to cry, “That’s mine! You can’t have it! The official description of this session was: Dr.
Take fifteen minutes and listen to more. On this day.. OpenLearn - The Open University. The meaning of open. Last week I sent an email to Googlers about the meaning of "open" as it relates to the Internet, Google, and our users. In the spirit of openness, I thought it would be appropriate to share these thoughts with those outside of Google as well. At Google we believe that open systems win. They lead to more innovation, value, and freedom of choice for consumers, and a vibrant, profitable, and competitive ecosystem for businesses.
Many companies will claim roughly the same thing since they know that declaring themselves to be open is both good for their brand and completely without risk. After all, in our industry there is no clear definition of what open really means. The topic of open seems to be coming up a lot lately at Google. This is happening often enough for me to conclude that we need to lay out our definition of open in clear terms that we can all understand and support. There are two components to our definition of open: open technology and open information.
The Cape Town Open Education Declaration.