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Sometimes when you read something it just makes sense. This is one of those times. I'm thirty pages in and seeing some things I think I've read before, but really loving this ride.
"But even where the concepts are not explicitly attributed to me (and very frequently, they are not), I do
not consider this to be theft. For what I have done is to throw an idea or a concept out into the public
commons, using a medium explicitly designed for that purpose. I expect it to be shared, and if it is a
good idea, replicated throughout the online world. I have no problem with that."
I frequently hear people attempt to equate the open education movement with socialism. After all, the logic goes, what could possibly be more socialist than freely sharing things with everyone? The attempt to characterize the entire movement in a single assertion assumes a uniformity within the movement that anyone working in OER knows does not exist. I will neither agree or disagree with broad, general assertion in this post. Instead, I want to disagree with the statement in a very specific context, and carve out a specific and concrete space in the discourse about the motivations that underlie OER.
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