SHARING AND OPENNESS! How I felt after watching David Wiley's TEDx Talks video
What does ORE mean? That is the question I have been thinking about before watching the video. After watching the video, I know. Open Education Resources means sharing and openness. When watching David Wiley's TEDx talks video, I quite agree with some of his ideas. David Wiley mentioned, "the successful educators that teachers who are the best teachers are the ones who share the most complete with the most students". I agree with this idea because this view reminds me of a man. This man is Bruce Lee, the man who introduced Chinese martial arts to the world. Many people know Bruce Lee through his movies, but Bruce Lee was also a teacher. In those days, when China was still closed-minded, many Chinese martial arts teachers were forbidden to share their skills. They do not allow people from other schools to learn their knowledge, and people from other countries are also not allowed to learn Chinese martial arts. Bruce Lee broke the rules and taught martial arts to anyone who wanted to learn martial arts. At the same time, Bruce Lee will take the initiative to learn different fighting techniques from countries around the world and share them with his students. Now, from David Wiley's point of view, I think Bruce Lee was a great teacher because his teaching was full of sharing and openness. The martial arts that Bruce Lee created are still popular in different countries today, which seems to illustrate the importance of sharing resources and openness.
David Wiley also mentioned such a sentence in his speech, "I can give some of my expertise to you without giving it away. I can share that with you without losing it". At this point, I pause the video and I think of an old Chinese saying. "When students master the knowledge, the teacher will starve to death". This old Chinese saying means that after a teacher has taught his students all the skills, his students are likely to become his peers and compete with him or even steal his business altogether. Such a point of view led to the fact that many teachers in ancient China refused to teach all their skills to their students. Is this view true? It seems to me that this view is not a statement of fact. I always think when a person has learned knowledge, he has this knowledge. This knowledge is not lost through his teaching. At the same time, advocate to open and share their own knowledge may make this knowledge more perfect. Think about it. After your students learn your knowledge, they may integrate their own knowledge with yours. Also, they may improve your knowledge based on their cognition. For this reason, spreading knowledge to more people may make your knowledge more perfect and also keep up with the changes of the times.
In addition to the points mentioned above, David Wiley used an interesting example in his talk. He mentioned that in the old library, you had to wait until someone returned the book before you could read it. It seems to me that this is an interesting example because it raises a lot of questions for me. When there is not a large number of books, is the speed of knowledge opening up and spreading slow? So if a book is unique, does that knowledge run the risk of being lost? At the same time, does ORE's advocacy have the effect of protecting knowledge? There is a reason why I think about these questions. In ancient China, many books could only be read by the emperor, and other common people did not have the right to read them. An ancient Chinese book called Tui bei tu was one such book, which was only allowed to be read by emperors. For this reason, there is only one Tui bei tu book. Later, with the change of times, this book was lost. This leads to the disappearance of the knowledge in this book. It made me wonder if this kind of tragedy would have happened if the book had been allowed to be shared. That is also why I wonder if OER has a role in protecting knowledge from loss.
Now I know that sharing and openness knowledge can bring many benefits to instruction. However, I still have some doubts. If I had a chance to ask Dr. Wiley one question, I would ask him how do we protect the rights of knowledge creators while keeping knowledge open and shared? We all know that copyright exists for a reason. It protects the rights of the creator of knowledge. However, it seems to me that there is some conflict between OER and copyright, so how do we resolve these conflicts?
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