1. Why be open?

2. Presentation by Stephanie Verbeken
is licensed under
a Creative Commons Attribution
2.0 Belgium License.

3. Several (good!)
arguments to be
open
• technical argument
• political argument
• economical argument
• evolutionary argument
• educational argument

4. Technical argument:
There is, technically spoken, no education without being Open
Source: David Wiley http://slideshare.net/opencontent

5. Source: David Wiley http://slideshare.net/opencontent
Political argument:

6. Economical arguments:
• Won't editors' businesses crash?
o Research1 shows evidence that in many cases the
sale of books increases when an online version is
offered open (and for free)
• Exposure
Source: David Wiley http://slideshare.net/opencontent
o organisational level
• university
• school
o individual level
• teachers
• researchers

7. Evolutionary argument:
• Being Open
 Quantity of feedback will increase
 Benefits for your course materials
 Benefits for your own students
• Being open and creative / innovative
 More exposure
 More feedback
 Etc...

8. Educational arguments
Presence in the educational world
Use open courses to show to candidate students what your education
looks like Take away their doubts about the educational culture and the level of
courses at university: "will I be able to understand the scientific articles
that are part of the course materials at university?"
Use open courses to give students extra study support
By opening up 'stumble courses' and providing them with weblectures, students can
rewatch the lecture. They get a second chance to understand the learning content.
Use open courses to support students with
learning difficulties or disabilities
Easily adapt learning materials to e.g. visually impaired students.
Or provide weblectures with subtitles to help hearing-impaired
students.
Teach your students in a "flipped classroom" system
Let them gather the information by taking an Open Course, online, before they
come to class. In the classroom you can come to deep
level learning using interaction between students.

9. So...
Why NOT be Open?