As part of our OpenJoyce.com presentation at OER13 we did a survey on what people considered “open to mean”. You can see all of the responses on the spreadsheet.
Some of the shorter responses
Visible and public.
The ability to use and share the work freely and without constraint provided you credit the author/source
It’s a buzz word to associate education with equal opportunity. It’s a business angle.
transparent
Those interested in Openness may like some of the arguments presented in our video and sldies
‘a great field was to be opened up in the line of opening up’ OpenJoyce and the Meaning of ‘Open’ from OpenJoyce
‘a great field was to be opened up in the line of opening up’ OpenJoyce and the Meaning of ‘Open’ from Open Joyce on Vimeo.