Openness in Education

Abstract

Having looked at scholarship and Boyer's four scholarly functions in Chapter 4–8, this section of the book, Chapter 9–12, examines the context in higher education, academia and universities within which digital scholarship is establishing itself. Of the three characteristics of digital, networked and open, it is the latter that perhaps has most resonance in the scholarly context, and so in this chapter I want to explore the changing nature of ‘openness’ in education and the different interpretations and issues it raises.