Open Education

Open Education refers to the educational policy concern of making education freely available. In a narrower sense, it is often reduced to the transfer of knowledge via the Internet , which is based on learning materials that are free of charge for the user (see Open Educational Resources , Open Access ) and on freely accessible learning platforms. However, open education is not to be equated with e-learning , but is to be seen above all as a social demand to open up "education for all".

One contribution to this is the OpenCourseWare program, which was started in 2002 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Over 230 universities and organizations have now joined the network (as of May 2016). Since 2014 it has been operating under the name " Open Education Consortium ". David Wiley is one of the thought leaders in Open Education. Similar to how the Open Access movement defined its goals in the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Scientific Knowledge , the principles of the Open Education movement are laid down in the Cape Town Open Education Declaration .

See also

• Open source
• Free content
• Open data

Web links

• David Wiley. Open Education and the Future . Lecture at TEDxNYED , March 6, 2010
• David Wiley. Openness, Disaggregation, and the Future of Education . Paper presented at the Penn State Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology , 2009.
• Open Education Consortium - the Global Network for Open Education. Website .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Membership | The Open Education Consortium. In: www.oeconsortium.org. Retrieved February 12, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Our History | WITH OpenCourseWare | Free Online Course Materials. In: ocw.mit.edu. Retrieved February 12, 2016 . 
3. ↑ http://davidwiley.org
4. ↑ http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/translations/german-translation