Open Learning - John Baxter

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What is Open?

In this first week of Why Open?, we are working on the question of what 'open' means.

'Openness' to me is encapsulated in this para from the Open Handbook:

"Being open is essentially about letting go.  You open up to what is outside your control.  Openness isn’t just about sharing or crowdsourcing.  It’s an approach that can be adopted almost anywhere, and can play a big role in making things happen.  This might be opening up information to others, opening up a process to a range of possible eventualities, or perhaps creating a space to collaboratively achieve your goals."

cf: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BUdg-ts0Y87olECI6bMBTjj4JuCS3emKHEfgv_GY_No/edit#

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I'm looking forward to my upcoming P2PU courses - Why Open? and Open Collaboration... or something to that effect.

Haven't had much recourse to learning communities around openness - 'open' seems not to be much of a thing in the collaboration/social innovation/startup areas I engage in.

It's very close to my heart though - enough so that I wrote a book about it!  tiny.cc/OpenHandbook

The Open Handbook was a One Week Book project that I smashed out late last year.  It was an experience I recommend for anyone thinking of actually producing books that people read.

See y'all in class!

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This is a test initial post to my OpenLearning (P2PU) account... just so there's something here to look at!