I am lucky to be involved with the steering committee for ETUG – it’s a fantastic team of 15 diverse, dedicated, fun ed tech professionals who volunteer loads of time to do great work to advance, share and celebrate ed tech in BC and the people who do it. We all work at different post-sec [...]
Posts Tagged ‘open’
cck09: How Open is “too open”?
November 5th, 2009
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George says:
In order for connections to form, openness is important.
But how open? Is there such a thing as too open?
Should all content and materials be freely available? What value does a university gain from keeping research “closed”? What about teaching? Should that be open as well?
I would argue for materials and research to be open. [...]
Open vs. Transparent + Risk-taking
November 5th, 2009
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This week, George provides some useful context for our thinking around openness – he says:
Openness is most often related to content. Transparency, in contrast, involves making our learning explicit through forums, blogs, presentations, podcasts, and videos. Throughout this course, I’ve made the statement that “when you are transparent in your learning, you are teaching others”. [...]
Openness: Why DO people contribute to the network?
November 4th, 2009
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In his talk on Empowering Professional Opennes Through Groups, Networks & Collectives, Terry Anderson (at about 22:30 min in) talks about why people contribute to networks, citing research that asked people this question, and whether it was about expecting others to give back/solve problems/help them out. He says no. People contribute to networks for these [...]
On Openness: Early Reflections/First Impressions
November 2nd, 2009
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Philosophically, I’m totally sold. Openness (openly sharing work, ideas, etc) is good, and can be great (just ask anyone featured in Alan Levine’s Amazing Stories of Openness – really fun and inspiring stories!). Practically, I’m also sold. Daily, we all learn because of others’ commitment to being open with their work.
It sounds like there’s [...]
