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Name: Sustainability and Political Opportunities of the Open Education Movement: A Case Study of China’s Potential Role
ID: m37111
Language: English (en)
Summary: This paper will propose two potential applications for the developing open education movement, or OE. One will recommend a policy solution with the potential to settle the OE conundrum of sustaining the movement while maintaining the attributes of openness. Another will examine the possibility of using OE as a tool for transnational political leverage. This hypothetical scenario will center on China as a case study. On the first proposal, the question of whether open education should be available for non-open societies is considered. For the purposes of this study, I will suggest…no. In the case of China, a nation with political attributes which run antithetical to the notion of openness and with great potential for market demand for OER due to development needs, there exists an opportunity to settle the problem of OER sustainability by applying a fee-paying principle to this non-open state for the use of OER. Open education remains open for open societies and closed societies must pay for access, provided that OER reaches its practical educational potential and can provide the kind of knowledge a developing nation like China requires. For the second proposal, and as an extension of the first, it is argued that the exclusivity of OER to open societies has the potential to make OER a tool for leveraging political reform in certain closed societies i.e. China.
Subject: Humanities, Social Sciences
Keywords: censorship, China, democracy, education policy, freedom, intellectual property, international relations, marketization, open education, sustainability
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 3.0
Authors: Leif Anderson (leanders@hotmail.com)
Copyright Holders: Leif Anderson (leanders@hotmail.com)
Maintainers: Leif Anderson (leanders@hotmail.com)
Latest version: 1.1 (history)
First publication date: Feb 22, 2011 12:16 am -0600
Last revision to module: Feb 22, 2011 12:28 am -0600

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