Blog 4

ALL OUT IN THE OPEN! 

Open terms & Open educational resources 

Let me start by saying I enjoyed the podcast because it quickly and easily laid out three terms that are important for this module: open education, open content, and open source. 

https://opensource.com/resources/what-open-education  kind of touches on concepts in the podcast and expands. Generally, all of these terms support the philosophy on how people can and should produce, share, and build on knowledge all together. Money, geography, etc. can limit someone's access to knowledge and we should want to break that barrier. We have open sources because we want others to be able to enhance that source and make it even better. This article also talks about online courses that are available to anyone, that simply exist just to help expand the knowledge of those who want to. I think that's really cool, life is about learning. 

https://lumenlearning.com/about/whats-oer/ OER'S! OER'S! OER'S! All about Open Educational Resources.“Open Educational Resources are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others. OER include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.” Is how the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation defines OER's. In simpler terms, free resources that can make us more knowledgable! 
OER's legally allow students, teachers, and learners to engage in the 5 R's: retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute. These are all ways we can alter or process information we find. OER's save money, are quick, efficient, and the possibilities are endless. 

Check out my comments on Minnie & Karla's blog. They're both great!