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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.
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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Some traps of openness
The legacy trap
Search
The search trap
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pulpolux/151695072
Metadata Trap
Build it and they will come trap
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk
The system is everything trap
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p://www.flickr.com/photos/marcemarc/2385399277/
The one stop shop trap
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcemarc/2385399277/
The perfectionist trap
(inspired by Chris Pegler – built by Christopher McAndrew) First used in slides in 2004.
The Holy Grail trap
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spiritual_marketplace/2207966935
Openness isn’t just content
http://www.flickr.com/photos/striatic/729822/
An ecology of openness
Openness is a state of mind…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/h-k-d/2837128711/