I am not in favor of adapting complete open or closed approach to being a networked practitioner. I prefer balanced approach. It also varies by situation, experience and context.
Open scholarship expands the horizon of sharing resources with wider community. However, we need to look at the socio-cultural contexts, copyright laws of each country, our own preferences as well as our previous experiences towards openness before making any decision about what to share with others. My online work was copied several times, and I had no power to claim those work. I agree with Weller that we can disseminate our work online to wider community through open sharing culture, but Creative Commons has many loopholes. If anyone plagiarizes your work, then it is hard to trace it. If in case the person is caught, you can’t penalize him/her as each country has different copyright laws. Reliable open publishers are looting people and asking for a huge amount for publishing my book or article. Certainly, each individual has to take ownership of open scholarship and must understand the ethical responsibility towards the term ‘openness’.
I also have set my own boundary for openness. Resources which are not supportive to my country ideology, is never shared by me with others. Similarly, I cannot talk about every topic openly online with others due to strict cyber laws. In the same way, I don’t feel comfortable sharing my private life or matters on social networking websites. Openness does not mean that we MUST have to have online accounts on twitter, linkedin, etc. For me, openness is to embrace only those social sites, which makes me feel comfortable in sharing ideas with like-minded people.
Weller said many people get benefit from open publishing to get more citation. It is very hard to ensure whether a writer publishes through open platform to promote open sharing culture or to gain more citation for academic growth?
Please guide how can a person trace how his/her work was reused? Searching online will not always give all the results!
Anne Adams rightly said, “Many virtual learning environments, do not provide adequate feedback or control rights to allow individual students this control.”
We can’t completely trust close ended approach! I am always in fear how my data will be used by social networking administrators. We cannot completely belief them. The option of privacy setting is only abstaining others from looking into our matters, but what if the administration of the social networking site misuse out data? Recently one of the Car apps in Pakistan was caught red-handed selling users data to other companies. In short, to me, openness has deep personal and cultural connection.
Task: Discussing open and closed approaches
I am not in favor of adapting complete open or closed approach to being a networked practitioner. I prefer balanced approach. It also varies by situation, experience and context.
Open scholarship expands the horizon of sharing resources with wider community. However, we need to look at the socio-cultural contexts, copyright laws of each country, our own preferences as well as our previous experiences towards openness before making any decision about what to share with others. My online work was copied several times, and I had no power to claim those work. I agree with Weller that we can disseminate our work online to wider community through open sharing culture, but Creative Commons has many loopholes. If anyone plagiarizes your work, then it is hard to trace it. If in case the person is caught, you can’t penalize him/her as each country has different copyright laws. Reliable open publishers are looting people and asking for a huge amount for publishing my book or article. Certainly, each individual has to take ownership of open scholarship and must understand the ethical responsibility towards the term ‘openness’.
I also have set my own boundary for openness. Resources which are not supportive to my country ideology, is never shared by me with others. Similarly, I cannot talk about every topic openly online with others due to strict cyber laws. In the same way, I don’t feel comfortable sharing my private life or matters on social networking websites. Openness does not mean that we MUST have to have online accounts on twitter, linkedin, etc. For me, openness is to embrace only those social sites, which makes me feel comfortable in sharing ideas with like-minded people.
Weller said many people get benefit from open publishing to get more citation. It is very hard to ensure whether a writer publishes through open platform to promote open sharing culture or to gain more citation for academic growth?
Please guide how can a person trace how his/her work was reused? Searching online will not always give all the results!
Anne Adams rightly said, “Many virtual learning environments, do not provide adequate feedback or control rights to allow individual students this control.”
We can’t completely trust close ended approach! I am always in fear how my data will be used by social networking administrators. We cannot completely belief them. The option of privacy setting is only abstaining others from looking into our matters, but what if the administration of the social networking site misuse out data? Recently one of the Car apps in Pakistan was caught red-handed selling users data to other companies. In short, to me, openness has deep personal and cultural connection.