Section+10,+Group+6+-++Open+Education+Movement


 * __Trend Name:__** Open Education Movement

This movement is based on a set of intuitions that are shared by a remarkably wide range of academics: that knowledge should be free and open to use and re-use; that collaboration should be easier, not harder; that people should receive credit and kudos for contributing to education and reasearch; and that concepts and ideas are linked in an unusual and surprising ways and not the simple linear forms that textbooks present. It does this by trying to reduce the high cost of teaching materials, because the average college student spends more money on textbooks than tuition, and making information accessable to the public.
 * __Basic Summary of Trend:__**


 * __Key Manifestations:__**
 * MIT OpenCourseWare __(__MIT OCW) makes the course materials that are used in the teaching of almost all MIT’s undergraduate and graduate subjects available on the Web, free of charge, to any user anywhere in the world.
 * Connexions is a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, //etc//.

Joseph Featherstone
 * __Key Personnel:__**

This is a trend because more and more websites are being created for general public use for research of information. Many of these websites are search engines that have course materials availiable for any to use. With this information becoming more and more availiable it makes researching online more helpful without getting information that is false.
 * __Why/How a trend?__**

__**Links:**__ http://campustechnology.com/articles/40600/ [|http://www.dsp.rice.edu/~richb/baraniuk-carnegie-chapter-july07-25.pdf]