How Open is Open Education?

摘要

A grass-roots movement is sweeping through the education world, and it promises to change the way knowledge is created and shared forever. Whether this promise is realised, however, hinges on letting go of long-held beliefs about the ownership of intellectual materials and a collective re-com-mitment to learning. The Open Education (OE) movement aims to address the high cost, limited access, static nature, and often low quality of the wotld's textbooks and learning materials. Open educational resources (OERs) are free for everyone at any time on the Web; moreover, they promise to be readily available at low cost in print, adapted to many backgrounds and learning styles, interactive and immersive, translated into myriad languages, continually up to date and corrected, and never out of print.