I’m pleased to say that two closely-related articles I’ve written about working ‘open’ have been published over the last few days.
As of this month, I’ve started writing for The Nasstarian, a new blog from Nasstar, one of the UK’s largest managed IT service provders. They’ve given me free license to write about things of interest to their readers. The first one I’ve written for them is about the ‘unexpected benefits’ of working open for businesses.
My latest DML Central article takes this approach and focuses in on what this means for education. I’m indebted to Bryan Mathers for the wonderful ‘elevator’ image, and to Matt Thompson and Laura Hilliger for comments on an earlier draft.
Comments are closed here to encourage you to add your thoughts to the original articles! Thanks for supporting my work!
![What does working openly on the web mean in practice? [UK Web Focus]](https://dougbelshaw.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/open-sign1.jpg)
It’s Open Education Week. In addition to facilitating a discussion on behalf of Mozilla, I’ve got a guest post on Brian Kelly’s blog entitled What Does Working Openly on the Web Mean in Practice?
Here’s a preview:
Working open is not only in Mozilla’s DNA but leads to huge benefits for the project more broadly. While Mozilla has hundreds of paid contributors, they have tens of thousands of volunteer contributors — all working together to keep the web open and as a platform for innovation. Working open means Mozilla can draw on talent no matter where in the world someone happens to live. It means people with what Clay Shirky would call cognitive surplus can contribute as much or as little free time and labour to projects as they wish. Importantly, it also leads to a level of trust that users can have in Mozilla’s products. Not only can they inspect the source code used to build the product, but actually participate in discussions about its development.
Go and read the post in full. I’d be interested in your comments (over there – I’ve closed them here to encourage you!) 🙂
Bonus: The web is 25! Remix this
Image CC BY-NC Glen Scott
Update: This will now take place at P2PU.org
Further to the idea put forward in this post (which gained some traction) I’ve set up semestersoflearning.org. It’s a space for self-directed but collaborative and informal learning about a particular topic. The first one will be about the potential of Mozilla’s Open Badges project and begins on Saturday 13th August 2011.
Before then, I need some people to come and help me kick the tyres on the BuddyPress installation and make sure it’s ready. If that sounds like you, add a comment below and I’ll send you a login.
Thanks in advance! 🙂
