The virtues of openness : education, science, and scholarship in the digital age / Michael A. Peters and Peter Roberts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peters, Michael (Michael A.), 1948-

Contributor:

Roberts, Peter, 1963-

Series:

Interventions (Paradigm Publishers)

Interventions: education, philosophy & culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internet in education.

Open access publishing.

Freedom of information.

Education--Effect of technological innovations on.

Education.

Physical Description:

vi, 171 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Paradigm Publishers, [2012]

Summary:

Should all academic writings be free for access by anyone on the Web? The Virtues of Openness examines the complex history of the concept of the open society before beginning a systematic investigation of openness in relation to the book, the "open text," and the written word. Peters and Roberts argue that openness suggests political transparency and the norms of open inquiry. The movement toward greater openness represents a change of philosophy, ethos, and government and a set of interrelated and complex changes that transform both markets and the exchange of ideas. These changes are discussed in relation to the development of new open spaces of scholarship with their impact upon open journal systems, open peer review, open science, and the open global digital economy. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: the virtues of openness

Open scientific communication

The philosophy of open science

Openness as an educational virtue

Open education and open knowledge production

Scholarly publishing and the politics of openness

Opening the book

Open cultures and open learning systems

From Castalia to Wikipedia

Postscript: openness and the rise of user-created media.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781594516856

1594516855

9781594516863

1594516863

OCLC:

320192515