In this short document, David Wiley provides his opinion of what “open” means, especially in the context of open content and open educational resources (OER). For Wiley, open content must engage in what he calls the “5R activities” (n.p.): retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute. He argues for the usage of less restrictive licenses, and notably contests the value of using Creative Commons licenses like Share Alike (SA) or Non-Commercial (NC). Further, Wiley promotes the ALMS Framework for making technical choices that increase, rather than limit, the openness of content.

 

Work cited

Wiley, David. 2014. “Defining the ‘Open’ in Open Content.” Open Content. https://www.opencontent.org/definition/