“Open” Educational Resources vs “Open” Pedagogy: Why Meanings Matter

abernard102@gmail.com 2016-03-19

Summary:

"The tl;dr. In many contexts – like open content, open educational resources, open source software, open access, and open data – 'open' means 'free plus permissions.' But when modifying nouns that aren’t copyrightable – for example, in contexts like 'open pedagogy' or 'open educational practices' – open necessarily means something else. There are significant costs when we aren’t clear about what we mean by open in different contexts ..."

Link:

http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/4496

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Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.oer oa.pedagogy oa.education oa.terminology oa.definitions

Date tagged:

03/19/2016, 08:53

Date published:

03/19/2016, 04:53