I watched the movie on openness and sharing in education. I found this presentation extremely interesting and I recognised myself and others in these questions ! What means a closed/open door ? Who is left outside ? Who should be able to access the higher education learning space ?

• If I think about the question “how open I am ?” it is very difficult to answer, I can be from extremely open to totally stubborn :-). But I think I can say that, as for 20 years, I have lived in many different countries, I had to learn how to adapt to my new hosting country and the new community. That way, I had to open my mind a lot, I had to leave on the side some “inbreed ideas” that I had about openness and habits. It brought a lot in my life and in my way of looking at others. I have students from all over the world and I also learnt a lot from them and their culture, their way of interpreting conversion, their way of sharing, working and transparency.
• In the best world, education HAS TO BE OPEN. Through education, I am convinced that we can build a better world. But as it was discussed in the movie, there are some restrictions (commercial, transparency, other obstacles (politics, religions, cultural…). MOOC is a powerful tool to share our knowledge all over the world and possibly to better understand each other. However, we have to realise that not the whole world is connected and free education learning system is based on computers with internet access, a large part of the world is still not connected or under restriction… Would that mean that a large part of the world will be left outside the door of open learning ? 

To summarize: 

• I think openness in education is crucial and obvious. I totally agree when David Wiley says “Openness is the only means of doing Education” and “if there is no sharing, there is no education”.
• I feel myself that the more I share with my students the more I learn and the more they are enthusiastic to learn. 
• Diversity is also a plus in education. We have different vision of things, different ways to approach things and different ways to discuss things depends on our background. If we share we will learn a lot through these differences.
• Well, we talk again about communication. I do not communicate the same way with my students, because, by working with students from different parts of the world I realised that they are not receptive the same in terms of “how to communicate an idea, to understand the work, to complete a task”. It can be sometimes eclectic because it means enough time to understand the student needs but it is, most of the time, a richness for the future.
• But (there is always a but .-)), in the “online networked learning” world, the “side effect” is that not everybody is connected and it means that higher education is still restricted to those with good internet access and a computer!!!