We visited the “Hit the Road Map: A Human Timeline of the Open Education Space”, a pre-event to the MozFest, organized by P2PU & CC School of Open & Flossmanuals, as announced back in September.
We started with a Spectrogram a prompt reflection/discussion on the changing meaning of open over time, discussing the idea of open education as a new development, through statements such as: “Open education will replace formal education. / The web will replace teachers and institutions. We’ve lost sight of the original meaning of ‘open’, for example when it was first used to describe the open source software movement. The meaning of open has changed since software became open and we’ve lost sight of that original meaning. Openness is the most revolutionary development in education since the invention of the printing press”, if we agree or disagree with those statements, or are somewhere in between on the Spectogram line..
Then we went on to draw the Open Education Timeline, referring to the Timeline of the Open Access Movement, and the UK Open Government Data timeline, the Timeline of US Copyright law, by stating first when and where we had the first encounter with “open”, or some might argue “free”.
Marieke thn explained OKFN’s Open Ed Handbook and how this timeline will fit into it. How it will be digitized it and put up for further iteration on the web, time mapper software.