{"id":81,"date":"2022-10-12T04:05:41","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T04:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rottsylvania.com\/?p=81"},"modified":"2023-03-28T06:13:30","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T06:13:30","slug":"a-challenging-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rottsylvania.com\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"A Challenging Concept"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Open education has always been an odd topic to me. While I can appreciate the idea behind freely sharing knowledge, I\u2019m also concerned about quality control.&nbsp; Who reviews that information? Exactly who is the person who wrote it and where did they get that information? Plus, while it\u2019s great to be altruistic, an educator still has to eat and pay the bills.&nbsp; If everything is open, then how does one make a living? But according to \u201cOpen Education, Open Questions\u201d by Catherine Corin (chapter 17 in Open at the Margins), my initial definition of open education is very, <em><strong>very<\/strong><\/em> limited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The term \u201copen education\u201d can mean a number of things, not just a free resource.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, there is to be \u201copen\u201d with yourself as an instructor. This is the act of acknowledging your own beliefs and goals. Then there is \u201copen admission\u201d or making information available to all. Openness of thought is also another aspect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Corin breaks the definition of \u201cOpen Education\u201d into four levels:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Macro \u2013 the decision of whether or not you wish to share information<\/li><li>Meso \u2013 deciding the audience you wish to share the information with<\/li><li>Micro \u2013 what digital identity will you use<\/li><li>Nano \u2013 deciding on a personal level how to respond to an individual exchange of ideas<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>While most of Corin\u2019s levels are easy to understand, some aspects are more challenging. For example, I would have liked to have a better explanation for the Micro level. At a glance, that level seems to indicate how someone presents themselves online.&nbsp; For example, do you identify yourself as an expert on the subject you are writing about. Again, that goes back to my initial concern about quality control.&nbsp; Who determines if someone is really an expert instead of merely presenting themselves as one. It\u2019s an interesting question that I\u2019ve yet to find a satisfactory answer for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But even though my questions still remain, Corin did a good job of pointing out how \u201copen education\u201d is actually a wide concept that cannot be easily defined.&nbsp; What qualifies one thing as being open might be completely different than the definition of open used for another. Very interesting, complex, and challenging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open education has always been an odd topic to me. While I can appreciate the idea behind freely sharing knowledge, I\u2019m also concerned about quality<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-it-521"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rottsylvania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rottsylvania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rottsylvania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rottsylvania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rottsylvania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rottsylvania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/rottsylvania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rottsylvania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rottsylvania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rottsylvania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rottsylvania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}