"Open education is a critique of our formal, institutionalised systems of education," writes Richard Hall. "Or so it should be," he adds. There are risks. In open eduicational resources, for example, "the focus becomes techno-determinist." Or they "simply replicate or re-produce a dominant political economy, in-line with the ideology of accepted business models." Or that "we fetishise the outcomes/products of our labour as a form of currency." Or "that we fetishise the learner as an autonomous agent." In other words, he writes, "The production and re-use of artefacts is of secondary importance to the social relationships that are re-defined by us, and the focus on people and values that are in-turn assembled through open education." Via Pontydysgu.
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