The third annual Open Education Week (#openeducationwk) takes place from 10-15 March 2014. As described on the
Open Education Week web site
“its purpose is to raise awareness about the movement and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide
“.
Myself and my Cetis colleagues are supporting Open Education Week by publishing a series of blog posts about open education activities. The Cetis blog provides a series of posts from Cetis staff which describe Cetis activities concerned with a range of open education activities. These posts are complemented by a series of guest posts on the UK Web Focus blog from people I have worked with who are working in open education.
The fourth guest post in the series published on the UK Web Focus blog is written by by Sheila MacNeill. In this post Sheila gives her reasons “Why the Opposite of Open isn’t Necessarily Broken“.
Why the Opposite…
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