openness at the ou
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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 projectTRANSCRIPT
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Openness at the OU
Martin Weller & Patrick McAndrew
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The OU
The Open University is open to people, places, methods and ideas.
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We got lucky!
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If you were starting an OU now…• Open source• Open educational
resources• Open teaching/courses• Open research• Open systems• Open technology
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8m visitors since launch
Canada
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Some traps of openness
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The legacy trap
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Search
The search trap
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Metadata Trap
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Build it and they will come trap
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk
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The system is everything trap
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htt
p://www.flickr.com/photos/marcemarc/2385399277/
The one stop shop trap
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The perfectionist trap
(inspired by Chris Pegler – built by Christopher McAndrew) First used in slides in 2004.
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The Holy Grail trap
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spiritual_marketplace/2207966935
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Openness isn’t just content
http://www.flickr.com/photos/striatic/729822/
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An ecology of openness
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Openness is a state of mind…
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