HOME+-+Benefits+of+Openness

Description of impetus for this wiki. This page is for listing the **benefits** associated with each type or area of openness.

Description: Benefits:
 * Openness - General **
 * Transparency
 * Mindset
 * generativity
 * supportive of agency
 * open-ended learning
 * reducing barriers
 * increasing access
 * enabling collaboration
 * enabling innovation
 * lowered cost
 * improved learning
 * make content better
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">independent study
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">promote social good
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">disrupting existing systems
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">extend access
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">independence from corporate / publisher influence or constraints
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">lowers barriers to creating accessible technology (a11y)
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">surfaces data privacy and ownership issues and the need for educating participants about what it means to share their data in all of its facets

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Description: <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Benefits:
 * Open Access**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Description: <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Benefits:
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Open Assessment **
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">independent learning assessment

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Description: <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Benefits:
 * Open Business Models**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Description: <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Benefits:
 * Open Companies**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Description: <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Benefits:
 * Open Communities**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Description: <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Benefits:
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Open Courses **

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Description: syllabi, lecture notes, lectures, assignments <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Benefits:
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Open CourseWare **

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Description: <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Benefits:
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Open Curricula **
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">enable learners to participate in shaping their own learning program, as at Empire State University. (Alexander)

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Open Data / Metadata / Paradata** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Description: <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Benefits:
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Paradata introduction via metadata examples : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QG0lAmJ0ztHJq5DbiTGQj9DnQ8hP0Co0x0fB1QmoBco/edit
 * Paradata is usage, event and activity data. Examples include "15 teachers used this video last month" or "Mary Joe in Oak View School, CA likes this resource."
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">discovery
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">sharing
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">learning to understand and manipulate 'Big Data' will be core skill, Open Data can be more real for students
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> "access" if users have access to their own data anyway, which is one premise of open data (Midgley)
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Open data is usually characterized around anonymous data access, but I think it should be around also reduced friction for PII-type data, allowing users to share when they want and protect when they want. (Midgley)

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Open Ed Resources / Content / Open Textbooks** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Description: <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Benefits:
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">remixing
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">sharing
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">collaboration
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">visibility of work
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">reworking/improving teaching material
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">financial
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">free use
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">repurposing (Anna Dani)
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">translation into different languages (Jim Fruchterman)

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Description: <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Benefits:
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Open Enrollment **

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Description: <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Benefits:
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Open Learning **
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Mozilla's "Learning Freedom And The Web"]
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">build and share their learning online, such as the Language Learning Forum’s Language Learning Log (Alexander)

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Description: <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Benefits:
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Open Licensing **

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Description: <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Benefits:
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Open Markets **

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Description: <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Benefits:
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Open Philanthropy **

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Description: <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Benefits:
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Open Platforms **

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Description: <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Benefits:
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Open Policy **

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Description: <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Benefits:
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Open Science **

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Description: <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Benefits:
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Open Source Hardware **
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Project-based curriculum units
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Gateway to Maker movement
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Massive data generation from Internet of Things sensor explosion - kids will generate and therefore own their data

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Open Source Software** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Description: <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Benefits:
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">code available to learn to program,
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">collaboration
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">improving programs
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">financial
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">ownership / belonging / community - authentic work
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">contributions beyond code - clipart, documentation, testing, advocacy - everyone can contribute

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Description: <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Benefits:
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Open Standards & Protocols **
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">ease of innovation
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">reducing friction

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Description: <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Benefits:
 * Open Systems**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Description: <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Benefits:
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Open Teaching **
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">brings transparency to the classroom, such as Mark Sample’s commitment to sharing syllabi, assignments, and even evaluations online. (Alexander)

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Open Tools** (wikis, blogs, lms's) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Description: <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Benefits:

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Description: <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Benefits:
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Open Universities **
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">flexibility
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">cost
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">peer to peer learning

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Description: <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Benefits:
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Open Web **