LiDA100: Learning in a Digital Age

In this subunit, we:

• Postulate that in a digital world, where the cost of replicating knowledge is near zero, we can widen access to learning for all using the open web and open content licensing.
• Consider the relationships between digital freedom and education.
• Reflect on the shortcomings of copyright as a mechanism to regulate the ownership of ideas in a digital world and the necessity to align our educational practices with our core values in fostering an ecology of creativity in education.
• Provide a framework for defining OER according to three interrelated dimensions:
  • Educational Values: OER should be freely available;
  • Pedagogical Utility: ensuring OER embeds the permissions of the 4Rs – reuse, revise, remix and redistribute; and
  • Technology Enablers: specifying that OER should consider access to the technical tools required for editing and that OER should be meaningfully editable to facilitate the 4R activities.
• Considered the implications of OER for learning in a digital age with a focus on solving real-world problems.