(Image from Purin Phanichphant on Flickr)
Wiley (2011) referred open as "granting copyright permissions above and beyond those offered by standard copyright law", and open contents as “content that is licensed in a manner that provides users with the right to make more kinds of uses than those normally permitted under the law - at no cost to the user.” In another word, open license is the key of openness.
As a language instructor plus instructional designer, I noticed that there are tons of free language learning materials on internet. I called them free materials not “open” materials because most of them are not licensed. The idea of open contents and open license/creative commons license has not been spread widely into this area. Most language instructors are aware of copyright issue, but not open license usage. With creative commons license, those language instructional materials (Powerpoint presentations, digital stories, Flashcards, etc) can become open licensed and shared under the license.
Another idea under the open contents that I would like to share is the openness diagram (see above). When we browse through the 12 topics of the Introduction to Openness in Eucation, one question that we have among our group is how are they related to each other & how do we define them? Then I found the openness diagram on flickr, which I think is quite helpful to understand by sorting those terms into different categories and arrange them in a diagram from the aspect to the consciousness of openness. I made some changes in my own diagram of openness by simplifying the diagram (see below).
(image cretaed by Hui-Ya Chuang)
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