[Open-education] Open Education Handbook - was Re: Friday Chat: The differences between open (as in access) or open (as in participatory & contribution)
Marieke Guy
marieke.guy at okfn.org
Tue May 27 13:28:45 UTC 2014
Thanks for your great ideas on this topic.
I've pulled them together in a question in the Open Education handbook:
http://booktype.okfn.org/open-education-handbook/_draft/_v/1.0/open-as-in-access-or-open-as-in-participatory-contribution/
Apologies if I've missed anything out or placed anything out of context
- please do go in and edit away. Also if you'd like to then to add
details to the acknowledgements page
<http://booktype.okfn.org/open-education-handbook/_draft/_v/1.0/acknowledgements/>.
I've also added some of Fabian and Terry's thoughts to the Open
Education history page:
http://booktype.okfn.org/open-education-handbook/_draft/_v/1.0/history-of-open-education/
If you are unfamiliar with the Open Education Handbook then this is a
good page to start:
http://education.okfn.org/handbook/
We are currently exploring strategies for long-term sustainability of
the handbook and Wikibooks is one possible approach. If anyone has any
other ideas then let me know.
Marieke
On 26/05/2014 14:47, Pat Lockley wrote:
> I think Heartbleed is a great example of open and it's failings, and
> one of the things open was supposed to prevent - many eyes and so on.
> Any look at a github contributors graph shows that the majority of the
> work is done by the few.
>
> I worry if we talk access, then the few doing the work already become
> even more burdened.
>
> I think the lacks of tools in OER is a real problem. Access is great,
> but then what? I don't think we've solved creation yet, but it's old
> ground and no one likes old ground and trying again.
>
>
> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Danielle Paradis
> <dani.paradis2 at gmail.com <mailto:dani.paradis2 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> 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
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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
>
> If you have an idea for a Friday chat add it to the
> etherpad
> <http://new.okfnpad.org/p/Open_Education_Working_Friday_Chats>.
>
>
> **
>
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