This is an overview of openness in education and in educational resources in particular and takes a human-rights perspective on the subject. It's a fairly long article, but relatively introductory. Its almost entirely US-based history dates the beginning of open content from 1998, which is a (large) number of years too late (again, my 1995 openly-licensed Fallacies guide was following examples already widelky found the field even by then). Moving foward, the article describes " a home for all OER-related research in the first academic, peer-reviewed journal, the International Journal of Open Educational Resources. Not only was it a first for OER, but Layne also offered authors the opportunity to 'Blockchain' their research–which was also another first in the world of scholarly publications." This claim is also questionable; projects like Pluto have been putting them into the blockchhain for a while now; search for them with scinapse.io. Similar projects include ARTiFACTS, DEIP and Scienceroots. Also worth a look is this 2017 European Commission report on blockchain in education, which also discusses academic publishing.
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