Drape's Takes

Open Source

• A set of principles and practices on how to write software.
• The source code is openly available.
  
• According to the Open Source Definition currently maintained by the Open Source Initiative, one should not only get the source code but also have the right to use it.
• The term open source has been used previously (here and here, as early as 1987) with a much wider definition and is still used in that wider meaning by many people who do not necessarily accept the Open Source Initiative's more limited definition of the term.
• While often distributed free of charge, such an implication is not inherent. Rather, see FLOSS.
  

• Describes any kind of creative work published in a format that explicitly allows the copying and the modifying of the information by anyone, not exclusively by a closed organization, firm or individual.
• The largest open content project is Wikipedia.
• Royalty free.
• Share alike.
• May or may not allow commercial redistribution.
• Content can be either in the public domain or under an open license (Creative Commons licenses, for example).
  

• An emerging movement.
  
• Combines the established tradition of sharing good ideas with fellow educators and the collaborative, interactive culture of the Internet.
• Built on the belief that everyone should have the freedom to use, customize, improve and redistribute educational resources without constraint.
• Educators, learners and others who share this belief are gathering together as part of a worldwide effort to make education both more accessible and more effective (see the Cape Town Open Education Declaration).

• Open Enrollment - All that desire are welcome to participate.
• Free of charge.
  
• Combines the established tradition of sharing good ideas with fellow educators and the collaborative, interactive culture of the Internet.
• Built on the belief that everyone should have the freedom to use, customize, improve and redistribute educational resources without constraint.
• Not limited to the course we've named OpenPD. Thus more of a movement - like Open Education - than a particular class.
  
• At times can be on-demand - but not limited to such. Sessions should be recorded and archived as a general rule.