This document summarizes the case study of Ray Corrigan's efforts to overcome cultural agoraphobia at the Open University through open educational initiatives like OpenLearn. It describes how Corrigan launched open content on the university's learning site without permission, garnered support from university leaders, and secured funding from the Hewlett Foundation to scale OpenLearn, which launched in 2006 with 900 hours of open content. The document suggests institutions and society can be culturally agoraphobic but open education can help break down barriers through open sharing of knowledge.

1. Overcoming cultural agoraphobia A case study Ray Corrigan Open University Gikii VI Göteborg 2011

2. Gikii past Maxwell’s demon on the internet Monks, books & battles Fighter Command's information system 5 point plan for the public domain Algebra with tiddlywinks

3. <C.P.Snow’s two cultures>

4. <Boyle’s cultural agoraphobia>

5. <Open University>

7. <Open source teaching project>

8. <2001 - 2002>

9. <T182 Law the Internet and Society>

10. http://vipernt.open.ac.uk/t182/html/welcome/welcome.htm

11. Cartoons by Tony Seldon For every human problem there is a solution which is simple, neat and wrong. H.L. Mencken Only one thing is impossible for God: to find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. Mark Twain He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts – for support rather than illumination. Andrew Lang

12. <abridged guide to Lessig for six-year-olds> http://vipernt.open.ac.uk/t182/Resources/Ray%20C%20ver%202.mp3 http://vipernt.open.ac.uk/t182/html/resources/transcript_commons.htm

13. <Hewlett Foundation http://www.hewlett.org/>

14. <OU scenarios planning>

15. <T182 CC’d autumn 2004> http://vipernt.open.ac.uk/t182/html/sectionindex.htm

16. <Site activity vibrant>

17. <didn’t ask anyone’s permission>

18. <take it down; we need to talk about this>

19. <VC supportive, genuine concerns Task Group late 2004>

20. <Academic Board & Council July 2005>

21. <support – do on big scale>

22. <Hewlett Foundation $250k>

23. < Proposal to Hewlett Foundation Nov 2005>

24. <HF reviewer comments Dec 2005>

25. <Issues: budget – 2 years ambitious Licence – CC or bepoke>

26. <BBC Creative Archive bespoke licence>

27. <Revised proposal Jan 2006>

28. <5100 hours Learning Space 8100 hours Lab Space “robust, scalable OES” CC>

29. <HF Board approved $8.9M Feb 2006>

30. <OpenLearn launched autumn 2006 w 900 hours content>

31. <lessons>

32. <Boyle was right>

33. <we are culturally agoraphobic>

34. <Institutions are culturally agoraphobic>

35. <break the logjam>

36. <shine light on our cultural agoraphobia>

37. <mature & rational debate>

38. <people not tools>

39. <putting people in touch with people>

40. Links OpenLearn http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/ T182 http://labspace.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=5851 OLNet http://olnet.org/ (OU and Carnegie Mellon) The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation http://www.hewlett.org/ OU YouTube http://www.youtube.com/ou OU iTunesU http://open.edu/itunes/ EU Search Register of Council of EU