The battle for open : how openness won and why it doesn't feel like victory

• Tác giả: Martin Weller
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1909188341
• ISBN-13: 978-1909188358
• ISBN-13: 978-1909188365
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 378.17344678 Organization and activities in higher education
• Thông tin xuất bản: London : Ubiquity Press, 2014
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (x, 232 pages) : , illustrations (some color)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 198993
• Chủ đề: 1. Education--Experimental methods; 2. Education and state; 3. Education, Higher--Computer-assisted instruction; 4. Educational innovations--History--21st century; 5. Educational technology--21st century; 6. Electronic information resources--Fair use (Copyright); 7. Internet in higher education; 8. Open access publishing; 9. Scholarly electronic publishing; 10. Strategic planning--Decision making; 11. Technological innovations--Social aspects

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-230) and index.

Tóm tắt

"With the success of open access publishing, Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and open education practices, the open approach to education has moved from the periphery to the mainstream. This marks a moment of victory for the open education movement, but at the same time the real battle for the direction of openness begins. As with the green movement, openness now has a market value and is subject to new tensions, such as venture capitalists funding MOOC companies. This is a crucial time for determining the future direction of open education. In this volume, Martin Weller examines four key areas that have been central to the developments within open education: open access, MOOCs, open education resources and open scholarship. Exploring the tensions within these key arenas, he argues that ownership over the future direction of openness is significant to all those with an interest in education.."--Publisher's website.