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Open Access
|Mar 2014

Abstract

This article offers a critical reflection on the contemporary Open Educational Resource (OER) movement, its unquestioned investment in a collective 'content fetish' and an educational 'problem description' that focuses on issues of scarcity, access, and availability of quality materials. It also argues that OER proponents fail to take notice of historically new forms of learning activity emerging within the unfolding digital transformation of our global society. The article reviews some descriptive accounts of such learning activity and suggests that 'networked autodidaxy' in particular can provide inspiration for the critical review of our ideas regarding open resources and practices in education

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/2014-04 | Journal eISSN: 1365-893X
Language: English
Published on: Mar 21, 2014
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2014 Sebastian H. D. Fiedler, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.