“Reusing resources – Open for learning” special issue of JIME
Allison Littlejohn and Chris Pegler have managed to put together a Special Issue of the Journal of Interactive Media in Education (JIME) – edited by Ann Jones and Martin Weller – that features a selection of chapters from the book “Reusing Open Resources: Learning in Open Networks for Work, Life and Education” that will be published by Routledge in July 2014.
I am quite happy that my own contribution titled “Open-sourcing” personal learning has made it into the selection for JIME and is thus now also available to a wider public under an open access license. Here is the abstract of my text:
This article offers a critical reflection on the contemporary Open Educational Resource (OER) movement, its unquestioned investment in a collective ‘content fetish’ and an educational ‘problem description’ that focuses on issues of scarcity, access, and availability of quality materials. It also argues that OER proponents fail to take notice of historically new forms of learning activity emerging within the unfolding digital transformation of our global society. The article reviews some descriptive accounts of such learning activity and suggests that ‘networked autodidaxy’ in particular can provide inspiration for the critical review of our ideas regarding open resources and practices in education.
The final book will feature 12 chapters altogether… and a foreword from George Siemens.