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What does it take to be open? – Openness and sharing in higher education

To share or not to share? is the question of the past two week(s). A question that, at first, seemed like a simple one turned out to be quite the contrary. It led to more questions. Why is openness in education important? What are the motivations to ‘go open’? What does openness even mean? WhatContinue reading “What does it take to be open? – Openness and sharing in higher education”

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What does it take to be open? – Openness and sharing in higher education

To share or not to share? is the question of the past two week(s). A question that, at first, seemed like a simple one turned out to be quite the contrary. It led to more questions. Why is openness in education important? What are the motivations to ‘go open’? What does openness even mean? WhatContinue reading “What does it take to be open? – Openness and sharing in higher education”

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Open resources.. what to do and where to go!

Open educational resources are discussed  for the topic 2.  We have 4 sessions for this topic since last week. Some questions, I keep asking myself… is it safe to share? is it okay not to share? Can my works be recognized? Copyrights? Use my own time to support this work? Is it the right ways […]

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Open learning: fair or unfair?

When talking about open learning, one would assume making the material available online for everyone, anywhere at anytime. However, we are living in a world that still high percentage of people have no or limited access to Internet. Looking into the map above shows that in 2017, most of African countries had below 20% access […]

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Being open (Topic 2)

  ”Open” and ”free” are nice words almost everyone loves, but they are rather fluffy and ambiguous so we have to make things clearer. But first maybe a look at the context and the “zeitgeist” where the term “Open learning” may be a part. Dig…

Topic 2

The topic 2 is about open education resources (OER) and how to provide an equal learning environment to everybody. Among the participants the working premises differ but we have had fruitful discussions! And this is the best part of PBL work: I am learning!:) In 2012, David Wiley wrote an enlightening article about OER, its […]