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Why Open Matters

Nate Angell on 8 Oct 2017

Silhouette of a woman against a sky holding her hand out.

Stand Alone Complex by haribote licensed CC BY-NC.

There are many efforts to “open” education and scholarship: open access, open data, open educational resources, open licensing, open pedagogy, open scholarship, open science, open source, and more. But why are we opening all these things?

Opening Knowledge Practices

Nate Angell on 23 Sep 2017

Painting of a male head made of flowers.

Spring (1563) by Giuseppe Arcimboldo.

I’ve become increasingly interested in how I can help empower people to have greater agency in their lives to build a better life for everyone through our mutual engagement in acquiring, generating and sharing knowledge, an effort I’m calling “opening knowledge practices” or OKP for short.

Why do I call it “opening knowledge practices”?