Self as an OER

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“Not just to create openly but for openness to be a state of being in the world.” (from video resources)

Continuing into my reading and reflections on ‘self’ as OER led me to this video from the GO_GN Network with Bea De Los Arcos, Suzan Koseoglu and Maha Bali. They share their research and practice, discuss how a person becomes an open educational resource, and challenges and limitations. This was published on 2 Nov 2016 so this has some currency for my investigations.

In this video conversation Suzan provides some insights into the REB process and measures that were taken to protect the identity of a participant who have not given informed consent for involvement of their blog posts – tensions with public and private digital content. She talks about blogging as part or all of the PhD process, as a methodology for developing and sharing of ‘self’. She mentioned a private blog, accessible to her PhD committee, and a public blog.

Maha shared some hashtags of interest: #phdforum #socphd #phdchat and the Thesis Whisperer blog/Twitter.

Maha asked ‘are you blogging questions or blogging answers’, and ‘are you building your PLN’? She shared a link to an article [On Digital Literacies] co-authored with Autumm Caines and Lee Skellerup Bessette. Then Maha goes on to talk about Laura Gogia’s blog post on the ‘granularities of the open dissertation’ – I’ve already accessed, added this link into Zotero, and read this material. Maha concludes with a slide about what openness is…. it’s a process, one that is

  • multidimensional
  • shifting and evolving
  • contextual
  • influenced by our digital literacies
  • not always beneficial because every opening calls for ‘selectiveness and exclusions’ (Edwards, 2015)