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So why is it that open education has seemingly stalled? Innovation in education and those leading campus transformations are working in challenging territories. Implementing change is demanding for those leading innovation and puts pressure on others to acquire new skills and practices (McDonald & Ingvarson 1997). At the heart of innovation is the reuse of knowledge and ideas and ability to critically reflect and reject old solutions (Kuhn 1970).
This paper examines whether the open education community is being critical enough in its evaluation of progress. Are we thinking critically enough and how does this relate to our research cultural norms? As reported elsewhere, a lack of critical scrutiny is very apparent in research publication processes that exhibit publication and citation bias toward positive claims and actions (Ball 2015). This adds little critically to fields of study. The aim of this research is to enquire whether the open education community being critical enough in its evaluation?
The methodological approaches will involve a systematic review to identify studies describing the impact of open education on learning and teaching in its many guises (OER, OEP, MOOC). A number of areas will be reported upon including publication bias and citation bias within the literature. The research will provide the open education community with an important perspective on levels of critical reflection and reporting, and will examine the need to open our minds an important component of our open practice.
References
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Ball P (2015). Science papers rarely cited in negative ways. Nature News.
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Rolfe V (2015). A systematic review of the socio-ethical aspects of Massive Online Open Courses. European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 18(1), 52-71.
Weller M (2014). Battle for Open: How openness won and why it doesn’t feel like victory. Ubiquity Press.
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