User:Daniel Mietchen/Talks/OER-Konferenz 2013/Abstract

There is a diversity of movements centred around different aspects of openness, and together, they provide a large and growing pool of resources that could be useful in an OER context too. As this potential has not been tapped systematically, this talk is an attempt to highlight how this could be done, both in specific circumstances and more generally.

Allowing reuse is one of the core elements of Open Educational Resources. On the other hand, OER themselves rarely make use of existing resources that are available under reuse-friendly licenses. Some possible scenarios for such reuse include (1) OER on a given topic that exist in another language; (2) illustrations from Open Access publications that could serve to illustrate OER; (3) open-source tools that could be used to create and manage OER; (4) Open data that could provide the basis for examples discussed in OER; (5) Open notebook science and other open processes that allow for interaction with practitioners of openness in a way classical educational resources do not. In this talk, the potential for this kind of reuses will be explored and existing interactions between the different open communities highlighted in order to stimulate thoughts on how progress in one domain of openness can be translated into others.