This document discusses open education and its interpretations. Open education aims to improve access and effectiveness through open sharing of resources and practices. It encompasses open educational resources (OER) that can be freely used and adapted, as well as open educational practices (OEP) involving open pedagogies and tools. While openness enables connectivity between networked educators and students, balancing privacy and openness is complex as boundaries blur between personal and professional identities and content. The document advocates negotiating openness contextually as it remains both vital and risky in higher education.

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Considering open education
Catherine Cronin Ÿ Open Knowledge in Higher Education Ÿ 31 Jan 2018

2. Catherine Cronin
open educator, open resercher
CELT, National University of Ireland, Galway
@catherinecronin Ÿ catherinecronin.net

3. Le spectre de la rose Jerome Robbins Dance Division
from the New York Public Library (public domain)
To hope is to give
yourself to the future,
and that commitment
to the future
makes the present
inhabitable.
Rebecca Solnit (2004)
Hope in the Dark
“

4. pen
Image: CC0 by Nadine Shaabana

5. open education
goal Ÿ philosophy Ÿ collective term
resources, tools and practices
that employ a framework of open sharing
to improve educational access
and effectiveness worldwide
- The Open Education Consortium

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Higher Education
challenges...
• Reduced public expenditure
• Marketisation & corporatisation
• Massification; changing student
demographics
• Inequality: persistent and rising
• Growth of digital, networked
culture
• Knowledge ubiquity
• Evolving scholarly norms

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Open education brings together
• A set of values – access & public good
• Assumptions about shareable knowledge
• Assumptions about enabling technology
CC BY 4.0 Laura Czerniewicz (2016) Troubling Open Education

8. INTERPRETATIONS
of ‘OPEN’
OEP
(Open Educational
Practices)
OER
(Open Educational
Resources)
Free
Open Admission
(e.g. Open Universities)
Image: CC BY-SA 2.0 Marcel Oosterwijk

9. Image: CC BY-SA 2.0 Marcel Oosterwijk
OEP
(Open Educational
Practices)
OER
(Open Educational
Resources)
Free
Open Admission
(e.g. Open Universities)
INTERPRETATIONS
of ‘OPEN’
Free + Permissions
for use, adaptation &
redistribution by others

10. CC BY 4.0 David Wiley (2016) OER 101
Open Educational Resource (OER)
“the 5Rs” = permissions

11. OEP
(Open Educational
Practices)
OER
(Open Educational
Resources)
Free
Open Admission
(e.g. Open Universities)
INTERPRETATIONS
of ‘OPEN’
OER + open pedagogies,
open sharing of teaching
practices, open tools
Free + Permissions
for use, adaptation &
redistribution by others
Image: CC BY-SA 2.0 Marcel Oosterwijk

12. networked
educators
networked
students
Physical
Spaces
Bounded
Online
Spaces
Open
Online
Spaces
Image: CC BY-SA 2.0 Catherine Cronin, built on Networked Teacher image CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Alec Couros
higher education

13. “I don’t think
education is about
centralized instruction
anymore; rather, it is
the process [of]
establishing oneself
as a node in a broad
network of distributed
creativity.”
Joi Ito (2011)
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digital identity

15. Balancing privacy & openness
Image: CC BY 2.0 woodleywonderworks

16. personal professional
private public
blurring boundaries

17. Balancing privacy and openness
will I share openly?
whom will I share with? (context collapse)
who will I share as? (digital identity)
will I share this?
MACRO
MESO
MICRO
NANO

18. Openness is...
² complex
² personal
² contextual
² continually negotiated

19. Opening up Education (2016)
A Support Framework for Higher Education Institutions
Source: Santos, A.I., Punie, Y., & Muñoz, J.C. (2016)

20. Image: CC0 Stijn Swinnen
It has never been more risky
to operate in the open.
It has never been more vital
to operate in the open.
Martin Weller (2016)

21. Thank You!
Catherine Cronin
@catherinecronin
catherinecronin.net
Le spectre de la rose Jerome Robbins Dance Division
from the New York Public Library (public domain)

22. all sources and references available at:
bit.ly/OpenEd-OpenKnowledge