Openness

This meeting will focus on the emergence and adoption of open initiatives (MOOCs, OCW, OER, OSS) and the principles and practices that can help develop and enable communities of practice. We'll introduce the Openness Index as a reference resource; open the model up for discussion and critique to help frame attributes, causality, and authenticity in openness; and illustrate areas of application. A panel of practitioners from OCW, OER, and OSS communities will discuss their conceptions of openness and open practice as we try to pull together common threads across initiatives. Topics will include the characteristics, attributes, principles, and behavior that promote open access, open-source software, open content, OER, open courseware, open research, and open standards, as well as management practices such as open governance.