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Sharing & Openness in Learning

I think I
learned a lot during topic 2 weeks, even if I was mulitasking at work =).  I think I managed. Very interesting this topic
2 – Sharing and Openness in Learing – as well as the first topic of the
ONL-course. I find one could work with ONL-tasks whole working weeks. The more
you know, the more you want to know.

I think
sharing and openness in learning in fact is quite a critical issue for teachers
as well as institutions. Some teachers like to share and some teachers rather
not. Teachers who like to share can also find them struggling with pure law
issues because using technology in teaching and learning quite often refers so
law matters. The teachers who like to share might be insecure what they can
share and what they cannot share.

In some
countries creative common licenses and other copyrights might not be officially
introduced and this causes in many teachers insecurity. And on the other hand
when a teacher chooses to share materials is there (always) someone who checks
that the published materials are suitable? Is there some kind of proof that
published materials are of (good) quality? Or isn´t there any supervision?
Should it be so? That there is no one checking out of facts presented? This might
be more about ethical approval.  People
should be allowed to publish what they want. For openly available materials there
is no source criticism.

If you as teacher
share to the public there might also be some kind of fear of competition. Somebody
might use the points you have made, with out of referring to you. Is this what
we fear? We know how it works, not everybody refers to used sources as they
should.

A teacher who is overwhelmed by the big amount of OERs stats to look for quality signals, for example reputation of providing institution. I see in this a risk.   https://www.linkinglearning.com.au/open-pedagogies/

But the
risk is not only how famous the institutions are. The risk could be seen as the
ability to facilitate communities and the collaboration within groups. Some
students need more help than others in the digital world. And we, for example
teachers, need to support the students. I think it seems as we were back to the
issue about digital literacies. https://www.yearofopen.org/april-open-perspective-what-is-open-pedagogy/

In our
group we had for interesting discussions about different kinds of moocs for
example. What I am thinking about is, that aren´t moocs quite resource
demanding? If there are thousands of students, and the course is not meant be given
and driven totally automatic by giving automatic responds to course questions/participants.
If the course should allow students to reflect on collaborations and  to get personal feedback? Could it be in some
cases a problem, that there might be a problem with identifying students on the
course? Who takes actually the course? And are the students really themselves making
the assignments? The participants taking part in a mooc, do of course have
different aims of taking part in a specific course.

I think
this second topic did raise many questions and actually also many answers! Here
I did only raise some questions that I thought of during these two informative
weeks of topic 2.

Topic 2 – Sharing and Openness