IRRODL- Openness and the Future of Higher Education

IRRODL - Openness and the Future of Higher Education

Here are the articles from this special issue:

Editorial

• Openness and the Future of Higher Education
  David Wiley, John Hilton III
  

Research Articles

• Openness, Dynamic Specialization, and the Disaggregated Future of Higher Education
  David Wiley, John Hilton III
• From Open Content to Open Course Models: Increasing Access and Enabling Global Participation in Higher Education
  Tannis Morgan, Stephen Carey
  
  
• The Impact of Openness on Bridging Educational Digital Divides
  Andy Lane
  
  
• Open Textbook Proof-of-Concept via Connexions
  Judy Baker, Joel Thierstein, Kathi Fletcher, Manpreet Kaur, Jonathan Emmons
  
  
• Peer-To-Peer Recognition of Learning in Open Education
  Jan Philipp Schmidt, Christine Geith, Stian Håklev, Joel Thierstein
  
  
• Open Educational Resources: New Possibilities for Change and Sustainability
  Norm Friesen
  
  
• The Technological Dimension of a Massive Open Online Course: The Case of the CCK08 Course Tools
  Antonio Fini
  
  
• Incentives and Disincentives for the Use of OpenCourseWare
  Anne M. Arendt, Brett E. Shelton
  
  

If you don't believe in Open Educational Resources (OER), OpenCourseWare (OCW), and openness, perhaps these articles above will change your views about that.


The future of higher education and openness?

No clue, except that we can learn:

• Whatever We want
  
• Whenever We want
• Wherever We want
  
• On any device We want

Yes, most of it will not cost anything except our time. Our time is precious, so if it ain't of quality, forget it. That applies to any programme or course, too. Yes, increasingly the public will be enlightened, so we better wake up to a new world order of learning beyond any classroom wall :)