Comments for Frances Bell at Sispace http://francesbell.salfordbusiness.org/buddypress Just another SiSpace weblog Sun, 06 Dec 2009 11:31:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on chmod777 education – what does it mean? by francesbell http://francesbell.salfordbusiness.org/buddypress/2009/10/14/chmod777-education-what-does-it-mean/comment-page-1/#comment-21 francesbell Sun, 06 Dec 2009 11:31:09 +0000 http://francesbell.salfordbusiness.org/buddypress/?p=12#comment-21 Thanks for the comments and retweets. I posted this in the hope it might evoke some comments from students, positive and negative about the openness of our SiSpace environment and was deliberately vague about my own views. In a post on my other blog, I talk how qualities such as openness should not be absolutes "With openness of dialogue and resources, I am inclined to paraphrase Einstein’s maxim on simplicity “It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.” Hence we can make things as open as possible but without surrendering the expressed desire for privacy of the individual." http://francesbell.com/2009/11/23/what-is-that-groups-and-networks-argument-all-about/ I think that there is a lot of room for discussion on openness, the first thing being what we mean by openness ;) Thanks for the comments and retweets. I posted this in the hope it might evoke some comments from students, positive and negative about the openness of our SiSpace environment and was deliberately vague about my own views.
In a post on my other blog, I talk how qualities such as openness should not be absolutes
“With openness of dialogue and resources, I am inclined to paraphrase Einstein’s maxim on simplicity “It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.” Hence we can make things as open as possible but without surrendering the expressed desire for privacy of the individual.”
http://francesbell.com/2009/11/23/what-is-that-groups-and-networks-argument-all-about/
I think that there is a lot of room for discussion on openness, the first thing being what we mean by openness ;)

]]> Comment on chmod777 education – what does it mean? by Nick Sharratt http://francesbell.salfordbusiness.org/buddypress/2009/10/14/chmod777-education-what-does-it-mean/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Nick Sharratt Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:46:24 +0000 http://francesbell.salfordbusiness.org/buddypress/?p=12#comment-20 So following chmod 777 education let me just rm education flippant, yes, but with open 'education' comes the risk of open 'ignorance'. If education is open, it as no framework, no structure, and no quality assurance. Students choose open resorces to learn from could equally choose inacurate, misleading, or out of date information and be none the wiser about their mistake. There can be a place for open education I'm sure, but chmod 777 implies making it completely open, owned by anyone and everyone regardless of their competance or trustworthyness....so very soon, someone will rm education. So following chmod 777 education let me just rm education

flippant, yes, but with open ‘education’ comes the risk of open ‘ignorance’. If education is open, it as no framework, no structure, and no quality assurance. Students choose open resorces to learn from could equally choose inacurate, misleading, or out of date information and be none the wiser about their mistake.

There can be a place for open education I’m sure, but chmod 777 implies making it completely open, owned by anyone and everyone regardless of their competance or trustworthyness….so very soon, someone will rm education.

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]]> Comment on chmod777 education – what does it mean? by Carlos Santos http://francesbell.salfordbusiness.org/buddypress/2009/10/14/chmod777-education-what-does-it-mean/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Carlos Santos Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:15:21 +0000 http://francesbell.salfordbusiness.org/buddypress/?p=12#comment-18 Hi Frances. Thanks for the reference. I would like to join the discussion :) Hi Frances.

Thanks for the reference. I would like to join the discussion :)

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