{"id":42,"date":"2016-04-07T21:57:45","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T21:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/adoptopentextbook\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=42"},"modified":"2019-09-23T17:01:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T17:01:51","slug":"game-changers","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/adoptopentextbook\/chapter\/game-changers\/","title":{"raw":"Game Changers: Why Openness in Education?","rendered":"Game Changers: Why Openness in Education?"},"content":{"raw":"Why openness in education? Why open education?\r\n\r\nThese questions have been asked by many since the label \"open\" was applied to education and coined in 1998 by David Wiley.[footnote]See https:\/\/en.wikibooks.org\/wiki\/Open_Education_Handbook\/History_of_the_OER_movement[\/footnote] Four years later, UNESCO created the term \"open educational resources (OER)\" at its 2002 Forum on the Impact of Open Courseware for Higher Education in Developing Countries to describe a new global phenomenon of openly sharing educational resources. [footnote]From https:\/\/en.unesco.org\/themes\/building-knowledge-societies\/oer[\/footnote] This international organization, \"the only United Nations agency with a mandate to cover all aspects of education,\" believes that building strong education systems around the world will help to eradicate poverty, promote peace, and encourage sustainable development. [footnote]https:\/\/en.unesco.org\/themes\/education[\/footnote]\r\n\r\nThere are several resources that examine both OEP (open educational practice a.k.a. open pedagogy) and OER (open educational resources). Some of these are listed below.\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/open.bccampus.ca\/\">BCcampus Open Education<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/openedmb.ca\/\">Open Ed Manitoba<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecampusontario.ca\/open-education-resources\/\">eCampusOntario<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cccoer.org\/learn\/\">CCCOER's Why Open Education? <\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sparcopen.org\/open-education\/\">SPARC Open Education<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","rendered":"<p>Why openness in education? Why open education?<\/p>\n<p>These questions have been asked by many since the label &#8220;open&#8221; was applied to education and coined in 1998 by David Wiley.<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"See https:\/\/en.wikibooks.org\/wiki\/Open_Education_Handbook\/History_of_the_OER_movement\" id=\"return-footnote-42-1\" href=\"#footnote-42-1\" aria-label=\"Footnote 1\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[1]<\/sup><\/a> Four years later, UNESCO created the term &#8220;open educational resources (OER)&#8221; at its 2002 Forum on the Impact of Open Courseware for Higher Education in Developing Countries to describe a new global phenomenon of openly sharing educational resources. <a class=\"footnote\" title=\"From https:\/\/en.unesco.org\/themes\/building-knowledge-societies\/oer\" id=\"return-footnote-42-2\" href=\"#footnote-42-2\" aria-label=\"Footnote 2\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[2]<\/sup><\/a> This international organization, &#8220;the only United Nations agency with a mandate to cover all aspects of education,&#8221; believes that building strong education systems around the world will help to eradicate poverty, promote peace, and encourage sustainable development. <a class=\"footnote\" title=\"https:\/\/en.unesco.org\/themes\/education\" id=\"return-footnote-42-3\" href=\"#footnote-42-3\" aria-label=\"Footnote 3\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[3]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are several resources that examine both OEP (open educational practice a.k.a. open pedagogy) and OER (open educational resources). Some of these are listed below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/open.bccampus.ca\/\">BCcampus Open Education<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/openedmb.ca\/\">Open Ed Manitoba<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecampusontario.ca\/open-education-resources\/\">eCampusOntario<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cccoer.org\/learn\/\">CCCOER&#8217;s Why Open Education? <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sparcopen.org\/open-education\/\">SPARC Open Education<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr class=\"before-footnotes clear\" \/><div class=\"footnotes\"><ol><li id=\"footnote-42-1\">See https:\/\/en.wikibooks.org\/wiki\/Open_Education_Handbook\/History_of_the_OER_movement <a href=\"#return-footnote-42-1\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 1\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-42-2\">From https:\/\/en.unesco.org\/themes\/building-knowledge-societies\/oer <a href=\"#return-footnote-42-2\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 2\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-42-3\">https:\/\/en.unesco.org\/themes\/education <a href=\"#return-footnote-42-3\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 3\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><\/ol><\/div>","protected":false},"author":5,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"Game Changers","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-42","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":33,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/adoptopentextbook\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/adoptopentextbook\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/adoptopentextbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/adoptopentextbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/adoptopentextbook\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/adoptopentextbook\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/42\/revisions\/668"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/adoptopentextbook\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/33"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/adoptopentextbook\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/42\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/adoptopentextbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/adoptopentextbook\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/adoptopentextbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/adoptopentextbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}