Open Education Resources

What does it mean to be open?

• Open source (relating to business and technology)
• Open source software
• Open source hardware
• Open standards
• Open access (research)
• Open design
• Open knowledge
• Open data
• Open content
• Open courseware
• Open educational resources
• Open educational practice

Being open means being free to make things better. In proprietary sources you are only a user. We need to make both our content and our systems open.