The virtues of openness: Education, science, and scholarship in the digital age - eContent Management

"Peters and Roberts identify the intellectual origins of ideas that drive our practices of science and education. As they say: 'The Virtues of Openness investigates the social processes and policies that foster openness as an overriding educational and scientific value, evidenced in the growth of open source, open access, open education, and their convergences that characterize global knowledge communities' (p. 4). The book is primarily about modern science and education, and it relates digital initiatives in these domains to social and economic developments. The authors argue for a concept of openness that has the potential to consolidate and federate our thinking about modernity. Peter Roberts is a professor at The University of Canterbury. Michael Peters is at The University of Waikato although many know him because of his professorial appointments at the University of Glasgow and the University of Illinois Champaign Urbana. Some of the best examples in the book are drawn from New Zealand practices. At last we have is a credible attempt to conceptualise the forces which disrupt our professional work and alter our environment. Diverse concepts of openness - open access, open education, open source, open journals - are apparent everywhere we turn - including monotonously, in the outpourings of marketing and promotional agents, yet their relatedness, relevance and integration have not been significant topics of erudite enquiry. The authors of this book set us on a path to rectify this deficiency in scholarship.  This book has eight short chapters..."