Winn, Joss (2012) Open education: from the freedom of things to the freedom of people. In: Towards teaching in public: reshaping the modern university. Continuum, London. ISBN 9781441124791

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Abstract

In this chapter I offer a critical analysis of Open Education, a growing international movement of educators and educational institutions who, through the use of the Internet, seek to provide universal access to knowledge. The purpose of this analysis is to examine the production of value through technological virtuality, in the concrete labour process of teaching and learning.

Item Type:	Book Section
Additional Information:	In this chapter I offer a critical analysis of Open Education, a growing international movement of educators and educational institutions who, through the use of the Internet, seek to provide universal access to knowledge. The purpose of this analysis is to examine the production of value through technological virtuality, in the concrete labour process of teaching and learning.
Keywords:	OER, Open Education, Marxism, Capitalism, value, higher education, Commodification, ref25, refchapter
Subjects:	X Education > X342 Academic studies in Higher Education
Divisions:	College of Social Sciences > Centre for Educational Research and Development (CERD)
Depositing User:	Joss Winn
Date Deposited:	22 Feb 2011 10:47
Last Modified:	08 Apr 2013 08:21
URI:	http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/id/eprint/4064

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