Open Sharing, Global Benefits

What is Open?free

shared Choices

Ability to adaptCreative Commons

Freedom of info and useAvailable to anybody

Cost effective

Digital Quality assurance

Why Be Open?

Education is Sharing

Paradox of Free

Buy One, Get One

Facilitate the Unexpected

Content is Infrastructure

Continuous Improvement

The $5 Textbook

Do the Right Thing

Based on David Wiley’s presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/opencontent/openness-arguments-and-examples

Global Benefits

Credit: Timothy Valentine & Leo Reynolds CC-BY-NC-SA

Washington’s Open Course Library

A collection of openly licensed (CC-BY) educational materials for 81 high-enrollment college courses

a worldwide community of hundreds of institutions committed to advancing OpenCourseWare and its impact on global education. >20k courses published

TU Delft content is used at ITB Bandung to educate students about water

Watermanagement