I attended an interesting discussion about open learning led by Jon Dron<\/a> from Athabasca University in Canada<\/span>. We discussed open access, open learning in various forms, open educational resources and open source software. \u00a0We also discussed why we do, or do not give away our knowledge, time and resources for free. (I\u2019ll leave the \u2018why\u2019 for another post).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I am a big user of free software and, of the most part, a recipient of rather than a contributor to the various websites, blogs and forums providing knowledge about its use. However I provide a lot of my stuff for free. This is not to make any comments about its quality.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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1. This blog: Not that one would expect blogs to be anything but free to access, but I like to think some for my posts cause others to reflect on their practice or solve a particular problem.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
2. \u00a0A database on open access articles about the teaching and learning of languages (YazikOpen<\/a>). This directory is kind of \u201cout there\u201d. Most people see to be led to it through Google as far as I can see. I\u2019ve had thoughts at various times about whether it is worth the effort to maintain it, but a handful of people have said nice things about it. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
3. An online introduction to statistics book<\/a> aimed at students in humanities. A project with which I\u2019m still fiddling. Wondered whether or not to have a forum.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
4. Teaching and Learning resources out together over the years mostly linked to my account in the humbox<\/a>. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
5. Various open access publications<\/a>, plus short articles on other websites. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
6. The outcomes of projects I have contributed to, never intended to be anything other than openly available, notably Getting More Out of the Feedback<\/a> and Sharing Practice in Enhancing and Assuring Quality<\/a>. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
7. I post anonymously on a couple of forums. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n
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     I attended an interesting discussion about open learning led by Jon Dron from Athabasca University in Canada. We discussed open access, open learning in various forms, open educational resources and open source software. \u00a0We also discussed why we do, or do not give away our knowledge, time and resources for free. (I\u2019ll leave the \u2018why\u2019 … Continue reading List of stuff I give the world for free<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,25,33,48,49,59,73,79,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-learning","category-feedback","category-languages","category-open-access","category-open-source-software","category-research","category-teaching","category-websites","category-yazikopen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1611,"href":"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions\/1611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}