OUR OPEN ACCESS WEEKJoin us for a week of workshops in our

18 – 24 OCTOBER 2010

WHAT DOES THE CONCEPT OF ‘OPENNESS’ ENCOMPASS?

ATTRIBUTES OF OPENNESS

• Social openness• Technical openness• Legal openness• Financial openness

• Social openness consists of ensuring that a work is made available and not kept secret or mouldering on a CD at the back of the drawer.

• Knowledge is legally open if it is free of most of the standard legal restrictions and requirements.

• Technological openness requires that knowledge is provided in a form and format that does not unnecessarily hinder access to humans or machines.

• Financial 'openness' entails, at a minimum, no cost to the consumer or user of the resource.

OPEN ACCESS

‘At the heart of the movement toward Open Educational Resources is the simple and powerful idea that the world’s knowledge is a public good and that technology in general and the Worldwide Web in particular provides an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to share, use, and reuse knowledge’.William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

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18 – 24 October 2010