I’m interested in open education and open educational resources in a “big picture” kind of way (impact on formal education systems, possibilities for resolving economic and social challenges) but for this course I think I’d like to explore ideas around openness in teaching and learning. My focus has always been to help teachers teach more effectively - primarily by helping them teach in unfamiliar environments, using unfamiliar technological tools. Teaching in the open, building courses using OERs - these pose new challenges to teachers in higher education and K-12 and in informal learning environments.
I’m interested in exploring ideas around how openness can affect teaching practice and the potential success of learners. Perhaps we need to practice with steadily increasing degrees of openness?
@SylviaR, Hi Sylvia, I am an academic teacher involved in teaching grammar and what you have written is of my own concern as well. I am very much interested in using OER in my teaching; what’s more I’d like to help my students to move around the new (in Poland) landscape of OER - many of them are even not aware of the term itself. Do you think we could belong to one group?
Hi everyone! I’m one of the facilitators of this course. I agree with @Brittney that there seems to be a lot of interest around openness in the context of pedagogy.
Would those interested in this field be willing to batch in as one group? Thoughts @clhendricksbc?
I’m happy to join in groups that talk about Open Data, OER’s and Free Culture.
Sure. I’ll set up a group for us today? Maybe we’ll focus on open educational practices (a term I found on the OER and less used languages blog - http://blogs.eun.org/langoer )
Great! BTW, you won’t believe it but I am a team member of the LangOER project and you have just mentioned its blog.
My only concern with this is that we might end up with one huge group, and then it might be a bit unwieldy, kind of like the large number we have already? I like the smaller groups because everyone’s voice really stands out and people get to know a few others really well. So I still think having smaller groups than everyone interested in open ed or open pedagogy is a good idea.
But of course, people should feel free to do what makes the most sense to them! If others want to join into a large group, that’s cool too!
Seems that the one huge group is the way this is going. 
I believe I need to go find a Creative Commons group - I don’t have any published papers to protect. Joe
LOL Even if you had published papers, what would you be protecting them from?
I agree with @clhendricksbc, smaller groups give participants greater opportunity for collaboration and voice. As a facilitator, I would prefer that groups are no larger than five and three is ideal (from teaching experience). Yes, like @clhendricksbc , everyone is free to do as everyone wishes.
I’ll be part of a group with you, if you’d like! What, in regard to Creative Commons, would you like to think further about?
I would still be interested in forming a new group, concerned with Open Data/Open Society. Anyone interested?
BTW, I saw this post by Neelie Kroes (EU commission) that was relevant to this course
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-14-556_en.htm
Hi,
I could throw my hat in with you and was @Brittney suggesting more interest in “Open Data” than the pedagogy? And I should really given my current public sector employment @JohnJohnston 
(even if I have been a bit in-and-out of things this week on holiday and trying not to think about work).
Hi @David_Jones & @Paul_Olivier_Dehaye,
I am interested in Open Data and would be happy to join a group with you both. With regards to the press release, on a quick skim I noticed that it’s very much based on the ethos of transparency and “pure openness”. I recently had a discussion with a repository manager who pointed out that “transparency” is often harder to sell to data providers as it implies revealing potential errors and embarrassment, whereas economic arguments often deliver better rates of participation…
I’d be interested in joining the open data group. Caveats: I don’t know much about it and am fairly time poor at the mo.
Was hoping to p2p on train but British Rail seem to think the site is virus filled and block it!
Yes, the argument between “it will help improve the accuracy of your data” verses “I do not want a third party pointing out our errors or drawing the wrong conclusions from our data”
Very much had that conversation recently! There is that cultural element as well, for example to control or provide one (definitive) data set and official interpretation.
Or is that hanging around accountants too much, and knowing what is reversed off the ledgers to correct errors as compared to the projected image?
Hi Paul
Could I also join the group please? That is as soon as I actually figure out how to join a group.
Maybe you could join the group with @AniaSkowron and @SylviaR, who are also talking about open education. Their discussion thread is here: Open Educational Practices
Hi Vanessa: Maybe you, @prospectrsrch and I could be in a group? We can be a bit of a hodge podge of interests, perhaps. All we need to do right now is come up with a list of possible open practices, and then choose one to engage in for next week!
@simeon you’re welcome to join in too, though there is already an open data group forming that you might be more interested in?
Sure you can. I think you don’t actually need to do anything, just find the thread for the group (which I created) and start posting there!
EEK! Got totally sidetracked. I’ll take a peek at @prospectrsrch. Hodgepodge, eh? Sounds about right. Medley, gallimaufry, farrago and more. Ha! Anyone who blogs miscellany posts for fillers knows, loves and uses the synonyms. Florilegium is another. What about Cabinet of Curiosities?
I share @shuggins’ interest in non-traditional too. but with my own being such a jumble (did I include digital identities?), best to hodge the podge.
I can’t believe I started this in the morning – but (among other things), got out a handful of blog posts