Battle for Open: How openness won and why it doesn't feel like victory
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Author(s)
Weller, Martin
Language
EnglishAbstract
With the success of open access publishing, Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and open education practices, the open approach to education has moved from the periphery to the mainstream. This marks a moment of victory for the open education movement, but at the same time the real battle for the direction of openness begins. As with the green movement, openness now has a market value and is subject to new tensions, such as venture capitalists funding MOOC companies. This is a crucial time for determining the future direction of open education. In this volume, Martin Weller examines four key areas that have been central to the developments within open education: open access, MOOCs, open education resources and open scholarship. Exploring the tensions within these key arenas, he argues that ownership over the future direction of openness is significant to all those with an interest in education.
(DOI: http://dx.doi.org//10.5334/bam)
Keywords
oers; open source; open education; Higher education; Massive open online course; Open access; Open UniversityDOI
10.5334/bamISBN
9781909188341;9781909188358;9781909188365Publisher
Ubiquity PressPublisher website
http://www.ubiquitypress.com/Publication date and place
2014Classification
Education
Philosophy & theory of education
Open learning, home learning, distance education
Education
Philosophy and theory of education
Open learning, distance education