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Links to Openness

 * PLEASE READ: ** Thanks for participating in this project! I would like to create a reference of links to openness in various areas, but especially as it relates to education. Please try to follow the format regarding simplicity and style, however you are absolutely encouraged to add categories, links, content, etc. Ideally, this will be a consolidated list of openness. I am U.S. based, however, please add any links pertaining to anywhere in the world. I do ask, however, that if you do add links or content that is primarily from out-of-country, that you identify it somehow. Thanks!

= **Areas of Openness** =

**Open Intellectual Licensing:** Property licenses which allow content creators to release their works while reserving some rights and simultaneously permit users certain permissions.

Twitter tags:

Creative Commons: Creative Commons licenses - Primarily for content GNU GNU GPL (General Public License) -Primarily for software

**Open Education:** Free or low-tuition schools that often use OERs or community sourced content and provide solid education to anyone.

Twitter tags: #openeducation

Kahn Academy:  A free school for anyone. Founded by Salmon Kahn.

**MOOC (Massively Open Online Course):** An anti-structure course that operates from the digital learning philosophy of connectivism (coined by George Siemens and pushed by Stephen Downes and Dave Cormier), where knowledge forms a web of connections from which people operate by through technology.

Twitter tags: #MOOC, #Change11

MOOC Hub-Site Change Mooc  (largest MOOC yet undertaken)

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;">**Open Educational Resources:** Community sourced videos, lectures, texts, lesson plans, and other educational resources that are released under open licenses and free for use.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif; text-align: center;">Twitter tags: #oer

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif; text-align: center;">OER Commons

= **PEOPLE** =

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif; text-align: center;">David Wiley: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif; text-align: center;">Instructional Designer with a long history in openness, coiner of the term and idea of open content (applying open source licensing to content), influential in open movement.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;">Twitter tags: @opencontent

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #005214; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">Profile <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #005214; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">Intro to Openness Course <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #005214; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">Blog Site

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;">**Lawrence Lessig:** Harvard Law Professor, founder of Creative Commons, activist for transparency in government.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;">Twitter tags: @lessig, #rootstrikers

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #005214; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">Profile <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #005214; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">Remix Book

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;">**Jim Groom:** Professor at U of Mary Washington, Instructional Technologist, Founder and instructor of DS106, Digital Storytelling class.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;">Twitter tags: @jimgroom

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #005214; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">Profile <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #005214; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">DS106 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #005214; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">DS106 Radio

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;">**John Seely Brown:** One of my favorite research authors outside of Instructional Design, he is an activist for openness and gaming in education. He also co-authored a foundational paper on the OER movement, linked below.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;">Twitter tags: @jseelybrown

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #005214; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">Profile <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;">Good Papers <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #005214; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">New Learning Environments for the 21st Century <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #005214; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #005214; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">A Review of the OER Movement: Achievements, Challenges, and New Opportunities