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<div><b>Open Education</b></div>
<div><i>A Study in Disruption</i></div>
<div>By Pauline van Mourik Broekman, Gary Hall, Ted Byfield, Shaun
Hides and Simon Worthington</div>
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<div>Open Education explores the disruption of the traditional
university as a result of the increasingly widespread provision of
free online open education.</div>
<div>What for decades could only be dreamt of is now almost within
reach: the widespread provision of free online education, regardless
of a geographic location, financial status, or ability to access
conventional institutions of learning. But does open education really
offer the openness, democracy and cost-effectiveness its supporters
promise? Or will it lead to a two-tier system, where those who can't
afford to attend a traditional university will have to make do with
online, second-rate alternatives?Open Education engages critically
with the creative disruption of the university through free online
education. It puts into political context not just the Massive Open
Online Courses (MOOCS) but also TED Talks, Wikiversity along with
self-organised 'pirate' libraries and 'free universities'
associated with the anti-austerity protests and the global Occupy
movement. Questioning many of the ideas open education projects take
for granted, including Creative Commons, it proposes a radically
different model for the university and education in the twenty-first
century.</div>
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>https://curve.coventry.ac.uk/open/file/c04530ce-d16a-46ca-b359-a9051<span
></span>95a76cb/1/Open%20education.pdf</div>
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