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

Fri May 23 18:57:24 UTC 2014

Agree with all... here a few more thinks to think about...

Connecting what you Marieke, originally mention above about the difference
between accessibility and participation ... not forgetting mention the
culture and language jargon…

I find it very interesting to see how challenge it is… or how we should
focus to find new discoveries together instead of just putting the content
accessible.

There is much ancient knowledge that could become isolated and the correct
motivation in participation, from open education can help to get that
documented and communicated.

In my opinion open education is a combination of active participation and
openness to new discoveries with the ability of others to access them. Not
only from the higher educational institutions or companies with a lot of
experience to others… but also from small communities or new universities
to contribute what in their culture is already know.

Establishing a dialogue, mutual enrichment and open a real human
conversation.  Of course means a real challenge not only from the big
universities to accept this "little experience knowlage", but also a
challenge from the “little universities and communities” because they are
more used to take and use than to generated or communicated knowledge.
Because, even if they have something valuable to share, they usually don´t.

I believe ones you know that the open knowledge can be enriched by your
academic experience; you will feel more motivated to know and participate.
Not just as an audience but also as a main character, protagonist.

Ange

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2014-05-23 9:31 GMT-06:00 Danielle Paradis <dani.paradis2 at gmail.com>:

> As Pat has pointed out, there are many (7 in fact) definitions of what
> constitutes open educational resources. There's also open-source,
> open-access, and I'm probably missing another one. I think the conceptual
> idea of open is a big-tent. It really has to be when there are things like
> MOOCs, open textbooks, and repositories of OER distributed all over the
> web.
>
> Marieke really touched on something when she mentioned that there are
> questions about the focus on being able to access resources rather than
> contribute to them. In my experience people tend to fall into one category
> or the other. While working on my thesis I found a few people who were
> creating the resources and a few people who were using them. There didn't
> seem to be a lot of cross-over, but there was a few instances. I believe
> the tendency to participate in the creation of OER probably has to do with
> familiarity about what they are. It's easy enough to find a free textbook
> online and think 'cool, I will use this'. It takes a little more time to
> understand the licensing, the repositories, and pedagogy that surround the
> concept of open education. Perhaps then as the open education movement
> matures we will see more people occupying a dual role of consumer and
> developer of OER.
>
> This reminds me a bit of the Heartbleed bug<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/19/technology/heartbleed-highlights-a-contradiction-in-the-web.html?_r=0>which occurred because everyone was using OpenSSL code, but no one was
> checking the work. That is, I believe, a cautionary tale for OER.
>
> Great topic though!
>
> Danielle
>
>
> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 5:24 AM, Pat Lockley <
> patrick.lockley at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've mumbled about this before re open access as a geography (
>> http://www.slideshare.net/Pgogy/open-as-in-oer-and-open-as-in-mooc). The
>> analogy I use is in the UK we have footpaths, which the public are allowed
>> to walk on - even if say they cut across your land. Whereas in the US you
>> might have a national park, which is open but you have to get to it.
>>
>> Footpaths aren't big, parks are. Footpaths tend be nearer, parks tend to
>> be further away.
>>
>> I think shifting the burden of accessing openness onto developers is
>> problematic for two reasons
>>
>> 1) How could they know what to do? Are we talking a Berners-Lee like star
>> system?
>> 2) How could taking things to people not seem a bit Victorian Empire
>> Missionary?
>>
>> I would say developing an accessible first (akin to mobile first) style
>> of openness makes sense. So make transcripts available for MP3s as an
>> example, but again, are we having better forms of open? And can we do this
>> and not put people off being bad open?
>>
>> So you can be open, but at a point of moving your openness onto people,
>> do you close things down? Or does it look a little spam like?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Marieke Guy <marieke.guy at okfn.org>wrote:
>>
>>>  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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