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Contents

Notes on Contributors

viii

Foreword

David Wiley

xxi

Preface

Patrick Blessinger and TJ Bliss

1

1.

Introduction to Open Education: Towards a Human Rights Theory

Patrick Blessinger and TJ Bliss

11

2.

Emancipation through Open Education: Rhetoric or Reality?

Andy Lane

31

3.

Technology Strategies for Open Educational Resource Dissemination

Phil Barker and Lorna M. Campbell

51

4.

Identifying Categories of Open Educational Resource Users

Martin Weller, Beatriz de los Arcos, Rob Farrow, Rebecca Pitt and Patrick McAndrew

73

5.

Situated Learning in Open Communities: The TED Open Translation Project

Lidia Cámara de la Fuente and Anna Comas-Quinn

93

6.

Educational Policy and Open Educational Practice in Australian Higher Education

Adrian Stagg and Carina Bossu

115

7.

The Identified Informal Learner: Recognizing Assessed Learning in the Open

Patrina Law

137

8.

Transformation of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education towards Open Learning Arenas: A Question of Quality

Ebba Ossiannilsson, Zehra Altinay, and Fahriye Altinay

159

9.

Three Approaches to Open Textbook Development

Rajiv S. Jhangiani, Arthur G. Green, and John D. Belshaw

179

10.

What Does It Mean to Open Education? Perspectives on Using Open Educational Resources at a US Public University

Linda Vanasupa, Amy Wiley, Lizabeth Schlemer, Dana Ospina, Peter Schwartz, Deborah Wilhelm, Catherine Waitinas and Kellie Hall

199

11.

Expanding Access to Science Field-Based Research Techniques for Students at a Distance through Open Educational Resources

Audeliz Matias, Kevin Woo, and Nathan Whitley-Grassi

221

12.

A Practitioner’s Guide to Open Educational Resources: A Case Study

Howard Miller

237

13.

Open Assessment Resources for Deeper Learning

David Gibson, Dirk Ifenthaler, and Davor Orlic

257

14.

Promoting Open Science and Research in Higher Education: A Finnish Perspective

Ilkka Väänänen and Kati Peltonen

281

15.

Credentials for Open Learning: Scalability and Validity

Mika Hoffman and Ruth Olmsted

301

16.

Open Education Practice at the University of Southern Queensland

Ken Udas, Helen Partridge and Adrian Stagg

321

Index

343