The Battle for Open : How Openness Won and Why it Doesn't Feel Like Victory
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The Battle for Open : How Openness Won and Why it Doesn't Feel Like Victory
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Open education in higher education
Description
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.
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.
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Weller, Martin
Source
978-1-909188-33-4
Publisher
Ubiquity Press Ltd.
Date
2014-11-28
Contributor
Weller, Martin
Ubiquity Press, Ltd.
Ubiquity Press, Ltd.
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This is an Open Access book distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (unless stated otherwise), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Copyright is retained by the author(s).
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978-1-84966-497-4
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en-UK
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Weller, Martin, “The Battle for Open : How Openness Won and Why it Doesn't Feel Like Victory,” Open Higher Ed Learning & Development, accessed April 25, 2024, https://openheld.omeka.net/items/show/27.