One of the main goals of open learning is to expand access. According to Dr. Gail Matthews-DeNatale, lecturer for Northeastern’s Master of Education in Higher Education Administration program and associate director at the Center for Advanced Teaching and Learning Through Research, open learning can be broken down into three dimensions:;xNLx;;xNLx; Open courses;xNLx; Open educational resources;xNLx; Open pedagogies;xNLx;;xNLx;You will see all these and more on this timeline.;xNLx;;xNLx;Reference;xNLx;;xNLx;Landry, L. (2018). Open learning: What is it and how you can benefit. Retrieved from https://www.northeastern.edu/graduate/blog/what-is-open-learning/;xNLx;
Watch this short video to learn about Maria Montessori and her educational philosophy. Maria Montessori (1870-1952) was a doctor turned teacher, a pioneer of theories in early childhood education who emphasized self-directed, hands-on learning, and collaborative play for children.
Karl Popper (1902-1994), a philosopher of science, is an outspoken believer in open society and is cited as the father of open thinking.
Ivan Illich (1926-2002) was a polemical writer who wrote extensively about the problems of educational institutions of the day, encouraging the idea of "deschooling" and learning through something he called "learning webs.”
In 1998, David Wiley coined the term "open content” to describe material that is licensed to provide users with free and perpetual permission to engage in retaining, reusing, revising, remixing, and redistributing content, or the 5R activities. He is often called the godfather of open content.
Open Pedagogy is a commitment to learner-driven education and a process of creating new ways of teaching and crafting assessments to allow the students to contribute meaningful work to the world.
Open Educational Resources (OER) are materials for teaching or learning that are either in the public domain or have been released under a license that allows them to be freely used, changed, or shared with others.
MIT launches its OpenCourseWare (OCW) program. With 32 initial courses, this was the most in-depth and complete collection of its kind.
Open access (OA) refers to freely available, digital, online information, though it often refers to scholarly journal articles in particular.
Khan Academy is launched by MIT graduate Salman Khan with the mission to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.
The Open Society Institute and the Shuttleworth Foundation release the Cape Town Open Education Declaration, a report urging word governments and publishers to make educational materials available on the internet for free.
California becomes the first state to provide access to digital high-school level textbooks in it’s Free Digital Textbook Initiative in 2009.
MOOC, or Massive Online Open Course, refers to a large online class open to an unlimited number of people.
Khan Academy creator, Salman Khan, and computer scientist who helped build Google’s driverless car and found Udacity, a freemium e-learning platform, Sebastian Thrun, come together in an interview to discuss the future of education.
MERLOT is an online collection of open educational resources (OER) led by an international community of educators, learners, and researchers.
Stephen Downes is an instrumental figure in online learning technology and new media, one of the originators of the first MOOCs, and frequent publisher of all things concerning online and networked learning.
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