Hello and welcome back!! Week 4 already?!?! Well, as per usual, grab your iced coffee and let's do this thing!

This week we discussed open education, open content, and open source. To start, we will discuss open education. https://opensource.com/resources/what-open-education expands on the idea that open education is the belief, and practice, of resources pertaining to education being readily available (whether that be easy access or free access) for teachers and educators of all sorts. The hope is that the ways in which teachers teach their students would be more expansive and provide more options if there were to be more options available at their fingertips.

The second concept of open content refers to the more copyright area of the open education resources mentioned above. According to https://opencontent.org/definition/ open content would be resources that teachers do not have to worry about copyright issues because the information would come from a public domain or would allow teachers to use the 5Rs (retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute) in order to use the information being provided. Open content would allow teachers to find this open education and then not worry about having to change it completely so that they are not stealing someone else's work.

Lastly, open source refers to actual software that is available for use and redistribution without worry. This would probably be the least available at this point in time because no one wants to make their softwares available for everyone to use freely. Surprisingly, there are many softwares that many teachers pay out of pocket subscriptions for just to that they can use them in the classroom. If teachers wouldn't have to worry about paying for these softwares then maybe the classroom would be a little more advanced. Open sources would allow for that.

Open education resources are crucial for students at all stages of education. Students need to know that there are websites and sources out there for them to help expand their knowledge without breaking the bank with tutors and other sources along those lines. While that may be necessary, open education resources need to be an option as well because they can provide outlooks and options that a teacher or tutor may not ever think of. https://campustechnology.com/articles/2014/07/02/16-oer-sites-every-educator-should-know.aspx does a great job of providing 16 open education resources!!! Take a look!!

Thanks for tuning in, I think I kept this shorter than last week's!!! Forgive me if I didn't, still a bit of a talker!! Anyways have a great week ladies and gents and, as always, let's chat next week!!!

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