open education?
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My talk for UQ Teaching & Learning Week from the panel session on 4 November 2009 discussing what it means to be open in the context of higher education.TRANSCRIPT
Name of presentation Month 2009
Open Education?
Tim KastelleUQ Business School
Panel on Open Educational Content & Open Source Models
4 November 2009
Information wants to be free.-Stewart Brand
Record Label Revenues in Yellow
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/multimedia/display/20061124155840.html
But aren’t we in theinformation business too?
On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it’s so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand,
information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other.
-Stewart Brand
AggregateFilter
Connect
We are not just pushinginformation – we are trying
to get ideas to spread
Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.
-Tim O’Reilly
People pay for this – WHY?
Ideas
• Our task is to get our ideas to spread
• Open access to our ideas is a core component of this strategy
• The way to make this strategy work is to focus on the three key activities: aggregate, filter and connect
Thank you!
timkastelle.org/blog/