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My Learning Journey with Open Education

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My first experience in open education was with MIT OpenCourseware around 2003. I had understood and was already tinkering with Open Source Software (OSS) so, OCW was an amazing find for me to get materials from MIT freely. Then Wikipedia replaced my normal Encyclopedia Britannica and Americana. I however became more active in the space as a stakeholder when I joined MERLOT.org 2011/2012 as a Peer Reviewer.

I got sandwiched in between the development of the MOOC and was part of one of the first MOOC done at MITx 6.002x Circuits and Electronics. I was also part of University of Central Florida's Blendkit MOOC in 2012. I was fortunate to complete a Certificate program at Open Polytechnic of New Zealand (OPNZ) in 2017 and then OU.

In 2013, I had my conference papers published on COL's OAsis and open access repository of OERs. I have also published a book using the Creative Commons license.

I can confidently say, I have learned so much in a lifetime that I may not have had without Open Education. The different forms and opportunities it has afforded has changed education forever and I believe it will only get better.

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