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Week 7 Activity 3 - Openness

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I haven't created a visual, all the work by others is amazing. There is a huge variation if you image search this as well. One reason I have not created a visual is that I like Weller's explanation that any definition of openness relates to context and can be hard to pin down.

I've been reading Cormier since 2013. I also participated in #Rhizo15 which was Dave Cormier's last MOOC. Found a few slideshares that were slightly more recent than the readings (most by Weller).

1. Openness in Education: A Beginners Guide (2017) https://www.slideshare.net/GO-GN/openness-and-education-a-beginners-guide

2. Navigating the Open Education Landscape (2017): https://www.slideshare.net/DeOnderwijsdagen/keynote-martin-weller-navigating-the-open-education-landscape-owd17

3. 5 reasons to do a MOOC and 5 reasons not to (Weller, 2013) https://www.slideshare.net/mweller/moocs-march-2013 This reading was particularly interesting as it talks about the 2013 version of H817Open that I participated in. I think the 10 points raised are still relevant.

Martin Weller replied to one of my tweets and said "2013, they were innocent times"....which possible means that things now look quite a bit different in the open ed arena.


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Being blown backwards - 5 years

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Week 7 and we are starting the Open Education block. What is the importance of blogs? For most of this block I'll be going back to my open blog 5 years! Yes, it is that long since I completed H817 in the Open version. I'm not sure if it is offered on Future Learn but in 2013 Martin Weller ran this course blended (ie Open and through the Closed LMS). I have the badges to prove it! As soon as I get my cred.ly password reset, I can see whether they are the same badges.

Here is my Week 1 blog from that time: http://wentalearn.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/reflections-after-week-1-of-h817-open.html

I've checked the G+ Community and it's still there but the last post was 2014. Twitter is also a quiet place on the #H817 tag (last post by Dan Barrington in February).

I had seven other blog posts from that iteration of the course. It will be interesting to reflect on changes in MOOCs and technology and see how far things have moved or improved.

In the last 5 years I have definitely kept on the Open path and have so much more understanding of openness in the education sphere. For this Block I'll be blogging here but making these posts open so I might have some hope of seeing them 5 years hence!

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