Open Chasms – definitions dividing or uniting the open community? Some thoughts from #oer18

Open Chasms – definitions dividing or uniting the open community? Some thoughts from #oer18
Sheila MacNeill, howsheilaseesIT, 2018/04/23
This is a bit of a natural follow-up to Phl Barker's post of the other day. Sheilla MacNeill addresses what she calls David Wiley's "potted history of open, open source, learning objects" and argues "if we don’t explicitly address diversity,  actively seek to include, support and embrace different voices, it’s not the difference between purists and pragmatists that will divide a community –  it’s who is included and excluded." That's all very good, but the people who get to make that point are the people who are actually doing it, or better, the people who have been excluded. More...