On what side of this dilemma am I? After going through topic 2 in the ONL course, and reflecting on what openness really means to my own practice, I say I am still on the closed side. Yes, I know, boring isn’t it on this day and age?

I enjoyed listening to Kay Oddone and Alaistar and the discussion that took place on OERs. What has helped me the most the past weeks, however, has in fact been my fantastic PBL group! We had much fun preparing the material for the open learning topic and we all ended up spending a considerable amount of time on the task at hand. 

So what does the O mean for me? From where I am right now, I would say:

After looking briefly through the jungle of material available on OER, Ican say I didn’t know about the 4R’s framework (reuse, redistribute, revise and remix) before the course. Now I look at sources differently. Consider this picture above, for example, I made sure it was available for reuse before placing it here. 

I have been so busy with a heavy workload the past weeks that I must say I have not read enough to be able to give you a more informed position on what OPEN means in detail. I do hope I will have time to dig deeper as I feel I need to explore the territory.

So I end this crazy busy week with a simple thought: talk more to the people around you. That is where I want to start to tread down the path of the unknown.