Open(ing) education : : theory and practice / / edited by Dianne Conrad and Paul Prinsloo.

• Author: Conrad, Dianne
• TeilnehmendeR: Conrad, Dianne, 1956-; Prinsloo, Paul,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden Boston : : Brill | Sense,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

"There is no shortage of scholarly research that reflects the growing importance of open education, whether referring to issues surrounding access to education (formal, informal or postformal); different copyright licencing regimes (e.g. Creative Commons); alternative forms of educational delivery such as Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), or alternative pathways to learning, curriculum development and delivery and/or assessing and accrediting learning. So what can another publication add to our understanding of open education? It has become clear that thinking in terms of the binaries of 'open' versus 'closed' can no longer account and do justice to the wide range of possibilities and the varying factors that destabilise some definitions and practices. In Open(ing) Education: Theory and Practice, the authors therefore map 'open' as emerging from a dynamic network or ecology of often mutually constitutive factors resulting in a range of possibilities. The chapters in this book provide us with glimpses of open, opening, and opened, with none of these being permanent states of affairs, but rather contingent, serendipitous, often uncertain, and fluid. This book is unique not only with regard to its variety of approaches to mapping the various possibilities between open and closed but also with regard to the global spread of its many contributing authors".

Table of Contents

Foreword : opening education : complex is as simple as it gets / Laura Czerniewicz -- Open, opening, opened and openness : an introduction / Dianne Conrad and Paul Prinsloo -- Open education : walking a critical path / Catherine Cronin -- The opened mind : an application of the historical concept of openness in education / Lloyd Hawkeye Robertson, Dulce Torres Robertson and Trevor John Robertson -- Open sesame! and then? : connection, connectivity, and liminal thinking / Pamela Ryan -- Talking across the chasm : opening up higher education in the knowledge economy / Gabi Witthaus -- Transformative sustainability-oriented open education / Anne Algers and Arjen Wals -- Openness and open practice in mentoring : moving beyond strong dyadic linkages? / David Starr-Glass -- Open to inclusion : exploring openness for people with disabilities / Tharindu Liyanagunawardena, Andrew A. Adams and Shirley A. Williams -- Opening educators' social learning ecologies : conceptualizing professional learning across public and private boundaries / Kristin M. Rouleau and Jeremiah H. Kalir -- Openness in context : realizing openness with open educational resources and prior learning assessment and recognition / Lisa Marie Blaschke, Wolfgang Müskens and Olaf Zawacki-Richter -- Fostering a culture of openness in open universities, with a focus on India / Sujata Santosh -- Breaking boundaries and building bridges across knowledge-sharing communities : OpenMed / Katherine Wimpenny, Christina Stefanelli, Saida Affouneh, Ahmed Almakari, Adiy Tweissi, Heba Abdel Naby and Seddik Tawfik -- Open learning and open communities : OER for PreK-12 educators / Jenni Hayman, Rebecca Heiser and Kristina Ishmael -- Openness across disciplines : reflecting on a multiple disciplinary summer school / Ilaria Torre, Klara Łucznik, Kathryn B. Francis, Diego S. Maranan, Frank Loesche, Roberto B. Figueroa Jr., Aska Sakuta and Tara Zaksaite -- Open in the evening : openings and closures in an ecology of practices / Leo Havemann -- Fostering openness within a higher education institution : tensions, opportunities and a work in progress / Elizabeth Childs, Jo Axe, George Veletsianos and Keith Webster -- A pedagogy of 'small' : principles and values in small, open, online communities / Tanya Elias, Laurie Ritchie, Geoffrey Gevalt and Kate Bowles -- Afterword : (in)conclusion / Paul Prinsloo and Dianne Conrad.