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Is openness the holy grail of education?

Posted on April 13, 2020 by Ioanna Aslanidou

The principle that education should be open and accessible for everyone is one that many people (and educators) share. I mean, if you don’t believe in openness, why are you in education? An extension of David Wiley’s remark, I wish I could roll my eyes digitally the way he did in his talk. Open educationContinue reading “Is openness the holy grail of education?”

Open Pedagogy

Posted on April 4, 2020 by Kiruthika Ragupathi

The idea of open in higher education has multiple interpretations, and a considerable lack of clarity, partly due to the use of varied terms such as the Open Educational Resources (OERs), Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), Open education, Open lear…

Being Open: Drawing parallels from the Coffee House Model

Posted on January 5, 2020 by Kiruthika Ragupathi

What does ‘being open’ mean and what is its value? Does the value lie in open content? Does the value lie in the interactions that occur through discussions? Does the value lie in openness created within social places, and not always confined to an ins…

Open Learning, Sharing and Openness : The Brilliant Idea of Creative Commons

Posted on October 27, 2019 by Saad Mubeen

One of the key enablers of open learning is the process of sharing and open publishing of educational content by allowing others to reuse, re-distribute, revise, remix and retain the contents [1]. The Creative Commons (CC) license [2] facilitates such sharing and open publishing while ensuring the original developer/author of the content is properly acknowledged. […]

Deep work and open learning

Posted on July 9, 2019 by Sune Bechmann Pedersen

This is the second of five blogposts that I’m writing as coursework for a teacher training course on open networked learning (ONL). In my previous blogpost, I reflected on the deeply flawed concepts of digital natives and digital immigrants after … Continue reading →

Openness: In practice or content?

Posted on March 20, 2017 by Kiruthika Ragupathi

“Openness is the breath of life for education and research. Resources created by educators and researchers should be open for anyone to use and reuse” – D’Antoni and Savage (2009) When we say “Openness in Education”, are we referring – Is it being open…