This paper analyses the evolution of openness in Higher Education in the last Fifty years, adopting equity as a key to the interpretation. Moving from five normative instances of equity, this paper proposes an analysis of two different concepts of openness, with specific focus on evaluation and assessment: the first one had developed since the UK Open University foundation in 1969, then coming to maturation in the Nineties and in the first years of the 21st Century with the Open Distance Learningapproach; the second one was influenced by the Open Source Software and is mainly based on free access to resources and courses, as in the Open Educational Resources and in the Massive Open Online Courses. This paper shows how all the forms of openness it analyses actually pursue an ideal of equity, but referring to different, sometimes diverging, approaches of it.
L’articolo analizza l’evoluzione del concetto di openness nell’istruzione supe-riore negli ultimi cinquanta anni, in base alla chiave di lettura dell’equità. A partire da cinque istanze normative di tale concetto, il contributo offre un’ana-lisi di due differenti concezioni di openness, dedicando particolare attenzione al tema della valutazione: la prima concezione si sviluppa a partire dalla fonda-zione della UK Open University nel 1969 e trova piena maturazione negli anni Novanta e primi anni 2000 con il concetto di Open Distance Learning; la se-conda prende le mosse dal movimento del Software Open Source e si fonda principalmente sul libero accesso a risorse e corsi, trovando compimento nelle Open Educational Resources e nei Massive Open Online Courses. Il contributo mostra come tutte le forme di openness analizzate perseguano un ideale di equità, ma con approcci di quest’ultima molto diversi e talvolta diver-genti.
Concezioni di Open Education e istanze di equità. Questioni didattiche e approcci valutativi
Ugolini F.C.
2021-01-01
Abstract
This paper analyses the evolution of openness in Higher Education in the last Fifty years, adopting equity as a key to the interpretation. Moving from five normative instances of equity, this paper proposes an analysis of two different concepts of openness, with specific focus on evaluation and assessment: the first one had developed since the UK Open University foundation in 1969, then coming to maturation in the Nineties and in the first years of the 21st Century with the Open Distance Learningapproach; the second one was influenced by the Open Source Software and is mainly based on free access to resources and courses, as in the Open Educational Resources and in the Massive Open Online Courses. This paper shows how all the forms of openness it analyses actually pursue an ideal of equity, but referring to different, sometimes diverging, approaches of it.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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