How Open and Free Content will Transform Post-secondary Education | teachonline.ca

abernard102@gmail.com 2016-01-21

Summary:

"If current trends continue, we may well see the day quite soon when most, if not all, digital 'content' will be open and free to use for educational purposes. If that trend develops further, and is combined with online learning, there will be major consequences for teaching, learning and, above all, our post-secondary institutions. The move towards more open content is clear and the speed in this direction is quickening. It is important to note that we are talking about much more than open educational resources (OER), defined as digital material deliberately created to be open and free for educational purposes, although that is going to be an increasingly important component of open content. The significance is that the move to more open content is a change in mindset about the ownership of knowledge and access to knowledge, especially knowledge funded, curated and transmitted through the public purse. Intellectual policy issues, and particularly the desire of faculty and instructors to exercise ownership of knowledge they created, will slow the pace of change, but these issues will be addressed through law, contracts and collective agreements that in the end reflect the public good. Faculty and instructors and their colleges and universities then have the choice of resisting this trend or deciding how best this development can offer advantages ..."

Link:

http://teachonline.ca/tools-trends/making-most-open-educational-resources-oers/beyond-open-educational-resources/how-open-and-free-content-transform-post-secondary-education

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) ยป abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.copyright oa.licensing oa.policies oa.publishing oa.oer oa.moocs oa.education oa.libre oa.courseware

Date tagged:

01/21/2016, 09:29

Date published:

01/21/2016, 04:29