Open Education

I have created a mind map depicting some of the key concepts of open education as outlined in Weller, M. (2012).

This visual representation is far from being complete and what is missing in particular is the idea of mutual dependence between openness and creativity: whilst creativity can be a product of openness (in fact, different forms of creativity as shown in the examples of little OERs and big OERs), it is also, in the form of the essential sharing of ideas and resources, described as a prerequisite of openness.

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Weller, M. (2012) ‘The openness–creativity cycle in education’, Special issue on Open Educational Resources, JIME, Spring 2012 [online]. Available at http://jime.open.ac.uk/jime/article/view/2012-02 (accessed 21 March 2012).

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