What is this open thing anyway?

What does ‘openness’mean to the OU?

“Perry told his newstaff to design the teaching system to suit an individual working in alighthouse off the coast of Scotland”

OPEN = contained,controlled and costs AND available accessible all inclusive and supported

Digital divide isstill out there but its not for us to solve…

OpenLearn – gone openwith our learning materials and have learnt a lot about what people like aboutthis

Shift to OpenEducational Resources – OER and associated designs

Olnet.org is a newinitiative trying to take this forward

Openness is acombination of ‘learn’/’share’/’communicate’ or openness can drive theconnections between these

OPEN unlimited, freed,free AND available, accessible, connected, empowered