The OER Knowledge Cloud: Reflecting On The Transformational Potential Of Open Education

Reflecting on the transformational potential of Open Education

Published	February 2016
Type of work	Conference paper
Conference	Genova University Press
Publisher	EM&M
Editors	Rui, Marina · Messina, Laura · Minerva, Tommaso

ABSTRACT

The paper presents some reflections on the achievements of the Open Education movement as well as of the main challenges that are risking to compromise the “victory of open” (Weller, 2014). To help facing these challenges, two ideas are put forward: to recover and valorise the reflections around Open Learning that have driven the wave of openness in education in the 70s and to focus on teachers as the potential game-changers for openness in education, by empowering them in terms of Open Education capacity and ownership.

Keywords

higher education · OER · open education · open teaching

Published at	Genova
Language	English
ISBN	978-88-97752-60-8
Refereed	Does not apply
URL	http://www.ememitalia.org/phocadownload/Atti_EMEM2015-2.pdf
Export options	BibTex · EndNote · Tagged XML · Google Scholar

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