Why Open: a Grand Tour | Learningcreep

"... The P2PU online course, Why Open, examines the question of openness, and starts by asking 'what do you think ‘openness’ is'? There’s been many answers: access, re-use and re-purposing, sharing, collaboration and transparency etc. but, as I’ve already intimated, for me openness is a ‘way of being'; it’s a way to engage in learning, not just learning that’s visible on the open web, but a way to engage in learning that acknowledges the vulnerability and risk that’s inherent and asks the learner to recognize and embrace this. After all, in order to learn you’ve got to put something ‘out there’, thus exposing your ignorance, your difference, your half-baked understanding, your radical position – whatever. In this sense, openness is also about sharing; it’s about putting something out there for mutual benefit, for learning together ...Coming up over the next few months are a raft of good courses that relate to open; I hope to sign up and take a 'Grand Tour'.  [1] Why Open? by School of Open on P2PU – Aug 10th to Sept 5th (open archive) [2] Open Knowledge: Changing the Course of Learning by Stanford Online – Sept 2nd to Dec 12th  [3] Open Research by OER Research Hub on P2PU – Sept 15th to Oct 12th [4] Connected Courses. Active Co-Learning in Higher Ed. Sept 2nd to Dec 14th ... Hopefully, I’ll be a good open learner and share my reflections here."