By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Open Distribution of Virtual Containers as a Key Framework for Open Educational Resources and STEAM Subjects
Alberto Corbi, Daniel Burgos, Electronic Journal of E-Learning, 2017/05/12
This paper (11 page PDF) covers an important topic and is one of the first detailed descriptions I've seen (not that others don't exist). The idea, in a nutshell, is that future OER distribution will be greatly enhanced by the use of virtualized containers. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Building on Open Educational Resources – What’s Next?
TeachOnline.ca, 2017/05/04
The focus of this article is on "three particular developments to shape the future of OER (quoted):

• Developing replicable, scalable models for institutions and faculty members to adopt.
• Adopting and Adapting New Approaches to Assessment and Flexible Degrees
• Sharing The Tools for Generating Simulations and Games

As the authors say, "he key is not so much making new OER products, services and processes available but stimulating their adoption and use. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. OpenAIRE survey on open peer review: Attitudes and experience amongst editors, authors and reviewers
Tony Ross-Hellauer, Arvid Deppe, Birgit Schmidt, Zenodo, 2017/05/03
I think people interested in open pedagogy could draw some insight from this discussion of open peer review. There's not one single dimension to open publishing (or open science generally) but multiple dimensions, including open identity, open participation, and open reports. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. What is Open Pedagogy?
Maha Bali, Reflecting Allowed, 2017/04/25
This is a link to a video conference on open pedagogy hosted by Maha Bali and including a number of the people talking recently about this topic (but by no means all, nor from all perspectives). Some of the related resources:

• Year of Open - What is Open Pedagogy - various authors
• Catherine Cronin - Opening Up Open Pedagogy (and open educational practices)
• David Kernohan - Roaming Autodidacts and the Neo-Reactionaries
• Tannis Morgan - Openness and Teaching, Learning, and Student Success
• Sukaina Walji - Critical reflections on openness in the ROER4D project
• David Wiley - When Open Worlds Collide and Wandering Through the Open Pedagogy Maze  

Some thoughts gleaned from the conversation: first, there needs to be a recognition that 'open' applies here to more than just pedagogy and more than just the classroom. More...