Openness and education: a beginner's guide | GO-GN

"One of the things we’ve noticed as a research team attending different conferences that deal with aspects of ‘Open Education’ is that people come into it from a wide range of backgrounds. It is also quite a broad term, with many different interpretations and perspectives. This can make it quite difficult for a new researcher to know where to start, or to come to common understanding when people have different starting points. So, along with Irwin DeVries, Vivien Rolfe, and Katy Jordan, we conducted some research to try and map the open education space, and from this produce a “Beginner’s Guide to Open Education”. In order to do this we used a citation analysis approach, whereby we seeded the network analysis with twenty key articles, and from these used the references to find further articles, and so on, creating a network of connected publications.  You can explore the network over on Katy’s site. "