Where Have we Come from a 2015 UGH
Alan Levine,
OEGlobal Connect,
Mar 09, 2023
This is a discussion in OEGlobal Connect initiated by the ubiquitous Alan Levine and referencing back to a 2015 post by Robin DeRosa essentially making the point that 'open education' has to mean something more than open textbooks. This discussion has gone back and forth for a decade, and the current thread is a revival of it. My own response somewhere way back when was to start using the expression 'free learning' as analogous to the sort of open education I would have in mind, as an alternative to 'control learning', which no matter what the status of the learning resources, was ultimately designed to serve some interest other than the student's. At the same time I have never thought of any of this as being some sort of 'movement' - that's a political concept, tied to some old idea of influence and power politics, in which I have no interest. I think we can have free learning and open educational resources and we don't all have to line up behind one unifying conception of what those must be. Image: Giulia Forsythe.
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