[Open-education] Friday Chat: The differences between open (as in access) or open (as in participatory & contribution)

Fri May 23 10:15:16 UTC 2014

Hi Everyone,

Sorry we missed our Friday chat last week - this was due to the Making 
it Matter workshop (lots of good discussions 
<http://linkedup-project.eu/2014/05/21/what-we-learnt-at-making-it-matter/> 
there though!)

So on the open design list there was an interesting conversation 
<https://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/opendesign/2014-May/000390.html> about 
the differences between open (as in access) or open (as in participatory 
& contribution)? They were trying to decide which is the most important 
and if we have, in the past, focused too much on access?

I was wondering how this ties in with open education. Are conversations 
too centered on resources and fail to consider whether people can 
actually participate. So here a couple of things come to mind:

  * Being where people are at - do we often trying to force people to
    come to 'a place' rather than going to where they are?
  * Language - we continue to use a lot of jargon
  * Is open education elitist? e.g. material OER is WEIRD (Western,
    Educated, Rich, Democratic), much activity relies on infrastructure,
    learning & teaching practice approaches are often tied to cultures.

Just a few thoughts.

Marieke

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