Openness at the OU

by Martin Weller on Dec 04, 2009

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A presentation on openness at the Open University, which builds on a previous presentation by me, and one by Patrick McAndrew who drew on the lessons of the OpenLearn project

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Openness at the OU — Presentation Transcript

Openness at the OU
Martin Weller & Patrick McAndrew
By mag3737 http://www.flickr.com/photos/mag3737/1914076277/

The OU
The Open University is open to people, places, methods and ideas.

We got lucky!
By psd http://www.flickr.com/photos/psd/3717444865/

If you were starting an OU now…
Open source
Open educational resources
Open teaching/courses
Open research
Open systems
Open technology

Canada
8m visitors since launch

Some traps of openness

The legacy trap

Search
The search trap
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pulpolux/151695072

Metadata Trap

Build it and they will come trap
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk

The system is everything trap

http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcemarc/2385399277/
The one stop shop trap
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcemarc/2385399277/

The perfectionist trap
(inspired by Chris Pegler – built by Christopher McAndrew) First used in slides in 2004.

The Holy Grail trap
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spiritual_marketplace/2207966935

Openness isn’t just content
http://www.flickr.com/photos/striatic/729822/

An ecology of openness

Openness is a state of mind…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/h-k-d/2837128711/

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