Perspective contributions

[laurenheywood]

Help us build our collection of Perspectives of the Open Web by creating a video or audio recording of yourself answering three questions.

However big or small, help others to understand how the Open Web can be used in learning teaching by sharing your expertise.

We have three questions to ask:

(1) What is the Open Web? (i.e. the meaning to you) - Let us know how you would define the Open Web in your context and what the phrase means to you. Sharing your understanding of the "Open Web" will help others to know what the phase means and different interpretations.

(2) Why does the Open Web matter in education? - Let us know why you think the Open Web is important for learning and teaching. Sharing your understanding will help others to build their knowledge of the importance of the Open Web for education.

(3) Share an inspiring example of the Open Web in education - Do you have an inspiring example of how the Open Web can be used in education or has empowered learners? Share your experience of the Open Web as a learner or educator.

Record a video or audio of yourself answering these three questions. Recordings can then be submitted through the Perspectives 'Share' form.

You can find an example Perspectives contribution here: http://perspectives.owlteh.org/what/catherine-cronin/

Contribute via the Perspectives form here: http://perspectives.owlteh.org/share/

More information:

The phrase ‘Open Web‘ might be traced back to the original vision behind the creation of the World Wide Web (WWW), imagined by its creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee as “an open platform that would allow everyone, everywhere to share information, access opportunities, and collaborate across geographic and cultural boundaries.”

OWLTEH looks at online infrastructures that somehow enable this, with a particular focus on how they can be used within educational context. While the concept is often associated with open source, open standards or open licences, we welcome different interpretations of the concept and understand it as a continuum that can encompass different levels of openness.

[Daniel-Mietchen]

Looks like this overlaps with at least two Mozsprint projects, which are concerned with mapping

• the open science tooling and infrastructure ecosystem Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools: how can we improve our ecosystem? mozilla/global-sprint#285
• the open landscape more broadly Map of the open movement mozilla/global-sprint#237 .

Just pinging them here - all three share the need to define somehow what they mean by "open", perhaps with reference to some standard definitions like https://opendefinition.org/ .

[laurenheywood]

Thanks @Daniel-Mietchen for sign-posting these initiatives. In the near future we are hoping to create a resource that supports educators to understand what the Open Web is and the levels of openness of online spaces and applications.

[drdvo]

Thanks @Daniel-Mietchen for the comments and reference to other projects.
In the case of OWLTEH, we decided not to be prescriptive re how 'open' or the 'open web' are defined. We wanted to cover a broad range of possible interpretations and views, as the meaning can be subject to different interpretations depending on context. For instance, when someone working within a formal education context hears "open web", s/he might immediately think of any spaces outside institutional online learning environment (VLE, LMS) that allow for sharing content publicly: e.g. Twitter. Later on, once we gather more contributions, we could then classify the different tools based on the level of openess (according to more narrow definitions).