{"id":2464,"date":"2014-08-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=2464"},"modified":"2015-08-14T06:14:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T06:14:00","slug":"what-is-openness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/what-is-openness\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Openness?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over on <a href=\"https:\/\/p2pu.org\/en\/courses\/2314\/content\/4530\/\">week 1 of P2PU Why Open? course<\/a> the question is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What do you think &#8220;openness&#8221; is? Focusing on your own field or context (if you wish), describe what it means to do work openly, or to make one&#8217;s activity or artifacts open. Alternatively, you could talk about what you think &#8220;openness&#8221; means generally, what sort of definition might fit all open activities or works. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What follows are some rather scrappy notes on my first reactions to the question. I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/index.php?q=openness\" title=\"John's World Wide Wall Display\">blogged a bit about openness<\/a> before too.<\/p>\n<h3>Blogging in the Open<\/h3>\n<p>My own field is education, I am a primary teacher now involved in staff development and ict support. To work openly means to me several things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To be able to publish my thoughts and idea without permission (limited by social norms, employment and the law).<\/li>\n<li>To put things in my own space not to be tied down to a silo or format.<\/li>\n<li>To be able to sink or swim in the internet ocean, the majority of my posts here sink, a few tweets and then down to the Davy Jones locker of archived posts. But that allows me to write what I like, no one is paying for it.<\/li>\n<li>For pupils as well as teachers and everyone else there can be amazing connections made by being out in the open online. Here is a video I made for Alan Levine&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/stories.cogdogblog.com\/\">True Stories of Open Sharing<\/a> to give examples of the benefits of working in the open, where I describe one example of goodness that came to my class of 10 year olds by working in the open.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HTLXVU_xNK8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Apologies for the quality of the video, made in too much of a hurry.<\/p>\n<h3>Playing in the Open<\/h3>\n<p>To play openly is just as important to me, I learn about my field of interest in education, the digital, by playing. Playing in the open give me the same gains as listed above but emphasises:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The ability to play freely with others, sharing ideas, copying, riffing and remixing.<\/li>\n<li>Talking across domains, I am learning\/playing with psychologists, artists, teachers without worrying too much about labels. Being in the open leads to serendipitous connections that would not be made if we kept our <em>activity or artefacts<\/em> in walled gardens, or our own hard drives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve a rather long post lurking in my mind about the learning I&#8217;ve being doing around <a href=\"http:\/\/giffight.tumblr.com\/\">GIF FIGHT!!<\/a>. On the surface a rather silly game of creating gifs played among people who should know better. It turns out I&#8217;ve learned more about manipulating graphics than in numerous unfinished tutorials. In addition I&#8217;ve learned a lot about learning through play, interacting online and how I learn myself.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/images\/2014-08\/2014-08-14_emblem_14.gif\" alt=\"Emblem 1.4\" height=\"476\" width=\"500\"><\/p>\n<h3>More Seriously<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>Open education can promote knowledge transfer while at the same time enhancing quality and sustainability, supporting social inclusion, and creating a culture of inter-institutional collaboration and sharing. &nbsp;In addition, open education can expand access to education, widen participation, create new opportunities for the next generation of teachers and learners and prepare them to become fully engaged digital citizens.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>from: <a href=\"http:\/\/declaration.openscot.net\/\">Scottish Open Education Declaration<\/a> seems about right to me.<\/p>\n<p>Recently I&#8217;ve been challenged a bit about the idea of open being the preferred mode of working online, I am hoping that if I stick to the <a href=\"https:\/\/p2pu.org\/en\/courses\/2314\/why-open\/\">Why Open?<\/a> course I&#8217;ll be able t ogive less anecdotal answers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over on week 1 of P2PU Why Open? course the question is: What do you think &#8220;openness&#8221; is? 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