One significant emerging strand of the open educational resources movement is the idea of open eductional practices as a care discipline. Now there's a lot packed into that idea. For now, here's what we're seeing on the OER20 conference website: "This year's conference theme for OER20 is around The Care in Openness and asks 'in the age of data surveillance and significant risk on the open web, how can we map out and give visibility to the critical component of care practices?' We have found this particular aspect of the conference theme to be a difficult one as it is often care itself that is used to justify data surveillance. We are referring to this phenomena as 'The Weaponization of Care' and we would like to start a conversation about it in open education." I think 'care' is being weaponized in any number of ways, one of which is to cast the idea of OER into a certain specific light.
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