The Journey to Open Education Ownership and control V Access for all Library of Celsus, Ephesus
A struggle against restrictive practices curriculum design closed collections selective entrance expensive technologies & equipment accreditation led learning exclusive language poverty and exclusion culture of experts
How far have we actually come? Challenging and changing: cultures of academic practice traditions within educational institutions legal restrictions around ownership and control of content existing communities of practice learner expectations government strategies and policies
Being open – removing barriers UK Open University (1970) MIT Courseware (2001) Jisc Exchange for Learning Programme ( ) Jorum National Learning Repository (2002) Creative Commons (2002) OU OpenLearn (2006) U-NOW Nottingham University (2007) Creative Commons (2002) Jisc RePRODUCE Programme (2008) First MOOC (2008) UKOER Programme ( ) ices/2012/02/13/open- educational-resources-timeline/ There has been a tendency to focus on learning resources and not on enabling people to learn effectively in an open, networked social world
Open educational practices Students as co-producers Open pedagogies & assessment Open networked learning Breaking boundaries Changing roles & relationships Collaboration New stakeholders Letting go of control Challenging ownership OER and Open Courses cost a lot of money and as such they often support the traditional practice and culture of the investor/s or producers Not all open courses embrace these principles…