EDCI 339 Blog Post 5


The Open education is a new form of education where the educational resources are free and open to everyone through online tool. It is a place where everyone can access the education resources based on their need, which can give many accessibility to the people who need these resources to accomplish their goal. Open education is very important to the educational environment because it helps the education to evolve, to remove the barrier of the education which can help many people worldwide to study.

The Open Pedagogy is to share the the process of education, to improve the accessibility and adaptability of the education. The open pedagogy could guide the education to transform itself from traditional way to the open education. It transform the education to be more accessible and convenience to both the instructor and student. The instructor could design course based on the theory of open pedagogy, and place all of the material and content online, make the teaching more easier to them. It can help the student to study online, which remove the barrier of the study and give the student many accessibility to the material.

The Open Education Resource (OER) is the education material which are freely open to everyone. These resource are the key to the open education, it form the accessibility and flexibility to the student since it is online with low cost. These factors indicates that the student are very easy to get in touch with OER, which allow them to study and use whenever they want to or need to. It also can help the student to apply these knowledge in their daily, which can help the student to get succeed in their academic goal and make the academic be more practical and efficient.

The Open Licensing is the legal framework allows the education material to be freely used. It provide the support based on the regulations and law to make the open education to grow, to enable the material to be developed with no restrictions from copyright. It help the educator to be more freely to accessible, to provide more open to educator to conduct the academic activities.

Although the open pedagogy and OER transformed education and provide many convenience to education. But it also face challenges. This type of the education cannot ensure the quality of the education, the student might lack the help from the instructor, leave them study with low efficient. Also this type of the education requires both of the student and educator to have certain amount of the equipment, such as laptop and internet. It improve the cost of the open study.


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