Open education is more than open content Unfortunately, much of what we read about "open" in education applies to the sharing of educational content: the materials educators use to teach students, from lesson plans to activities to syllabi to entire curricula. While sharing content is certainly valuable, we can do more to make education more open. By default, most traditional educational organizations aren't inclined toward sharing. Just look at the ways many activities central to them — like tenure, publication, and advancement—tend to emphasize solo authors, thinkers, and inventors. In the context of higher education, we like to imagine scholars and scientists toiling away in isolation, dreaming up big ideas and releasing them to the world in brilliant form. When open education advocates focus too narrowly on content distribution, they can miss the act of content creation—and then risk missing ways we might change the pace and quality of the work we're doing together. Quite simply, co-creation allows better, richer, more diverse solutions and insights. It also allows us to succeed or fail faster, so we can accelerate the pace of innovation necessary today. Reforming our criteria for valuable educational contributions might help us begin rewarding an open approach to creation rather than discouraging it. Very interesting about the value and role of education, and how until recent times, it was a more collaborative approach for content creation. We have all the tools to do it from a technology perspective... it's the people issue that needs to adapt. Read the full article at http://ift.tt/2bOXOJx
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