{"id":160,"date":"2010-09-12T06:46:49","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T12:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opengecko.com\/open\/"},"modified":"2010-11-12T10:17:59","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T16:17:59","slug":"open","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/open\/","title":{"rendered":"Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"3\">Open as in wide-open for others to use and share as they wish. Open = Shared.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\">Open as in \u2018open source software\u2019, except I am thinking that a similar idea might be applied to education: \u2018open source education\u2019 or \u2018open source learning\u2019.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\">Inspired by the Creative Commons movement, as briefly outlined in this video:<\/font><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:7edb9c86-d434-43d9-bfe6-7e01edf296b9\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">\n<div><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1DKm96Ftfko?hl=en&amp;hd=1\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1DKm96Ftfko?hl=en&amp;hd=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><font size=\"3\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\">A common&#160; saying in education and other spheres: \u2018why reinvent the wheel?\u2019 And yet, painfully, so many educators do. Until quite recently quality resources were safeguarded by copyright licensing a reluctance to put our stuff out the on the internet. Thankfully that has now changed. Massively.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\">I have had this domain name for a few years now with this idea in mind. Recently, Dean Shareski argued persuasively that sharing our stuff as educators is not just a good idea but in his words a \u2018moral imperative\u2019:<\/font><\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"392\" src=\"http:\/\/dotsub.com\/media\/027a4da1-8be2-4ea7-85e9-2e3be140db1a\/e\/l\/\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe>  <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\">Explore some themes associated with the idea of the word \u2018open\u2019 in education using the links to the right.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open as in wide-open for others to use and share as they wish. Open = Shared. Open as in \u2018open source software\u2019, except I am thinking that a similar idea might be applied to education: \u2018open source education\u2019 or \u2018open source learning\u2019. Inspired by the Creative Commons movement, as briefly outlined in this video: A&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/160\/revisions\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}