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From Open Education to Open Innovation: A New Paradigm
How the idea of sharing knowledge across organizations, known as open innovation, grew from open education thinking, and where its limits and trade-offs lie.
Foundations and Future
Where open education meets open science, open research and open innovation.
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How the idea of sharing knowledge across organizations, known as open innovation, grew from open education thinking, and where its limits and trade-offs lie.
How learners practice collaboration and problem solving by taking part in open projects, what skills this can build, and the limits worth keeping in mind.
A plain guide to open access journals and repositories, how they differ from subscription publishing, and what readers and authors should check.
An explanation of open research practices such as preregistration, shared protocols and open peer review, with their purposes, limits and what to look for.
Why researchers share datasets and code, what stops them, and how shared data supports reuse, with practical points on documentation, licenses and privacy.
A plain definition of open science, its main strands, and a set of small first steps a newcomer can take, from reading open papers to organizing their own work.
How members of the public take part in research as volunteers, the kinds of data and analysis they contribute, and the benefits, limits and safeguards involved.
Why open licenses can speed up new teaching ideas by letting others copy, adapt and share, plus the realistic caveats around quality, support and uneven uptake.
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