The battle for open: how openness won and why it doesn't feel like victory

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 di...

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Main Author Weller, Martin
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published London ubiquity press 2014
Ubiquity Press
Subjects
Bildungswesen
Education
Education > Philosophy
Educational Policy & Reform
Higher education
Hochschule
Massive open online course
oers
Online-Kurs
Open Access
open education
Open Educational Resources
Open learning, distance education
Open plan schools
open source
Open University
Philosophy and theory of education
Society and Social Sciences
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Summary: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)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-230) and index
Relevant Wikipedia pages: Educational technology - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_technology; Higher education - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_education; Massive open online course - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course; Open access - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access; Open education - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_education; Open educational resources - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources; Open University - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_University
MODID-14d5b20db13:Ubiquity Press
ISBN:1909188344
9781909188358
1909188352
1909188336
9781909188341
9781909188365
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9781909188334
DOI:10.5334/bam