The Pedagogy of the Open Society : a Knowledge and the Governance of Higher Education

Social processes and policies that foster openness as an overriding value as evidenced in the growth of open source, open access and open education and their convergences that characterize global knowledge communities that transcend borders of the nation-state. Openness seems also to suggest political transparency and the norms of open inquiry, indeed, even democracy itself as both the basis of the logic of inquiry and the dissemination of its results. Openness is a value and philosophy that also offers us a means for transforming our institutions and our practices. This book examines the interface between learning, pedagogy and economy in terms of the potential of open institutions to transform and revitalize education in the name of the public good. Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Creative Economy and Open Education....Pages 1-16 Creativity, Openness and the Global Knowledge Economy....Pages 17-32 Esoteric and Open Pedagogies....Pages 33-54 Open Learning Systems....Pages 55-65 The Economics of Open Education....Pages 67-76 Knowledge Socialism and Universities....Pages 77-90 Knowledge Socialism and Universities....Pages 91-104 Learned Societies, Public Good Science and Openness in the Digital Age....Pages 105-127