ERIC Number: EJ1405333
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
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Transcending Post-Truth: Open Educational Practices in the Information Age
Distance Education, v44 n4 p637-654 2023
This paper discusses operationalization of open educational practices (OEP) using innovative, Internet-influenced pedagogies to expose dangers of post-truth narratives. The first part reviews interpretations of OEP (associated with open-access and tools, collaboration, problem-centered learning, and democratic pedagogy) and explores possibilities for creating educational initiatives where students learn to create problem-solving communities mirroring an informationally healthy society. The second part suggests our society has reached a post-truth crossroads. Post-truth was initially discussed in the 1990s--a reification of critical theorists' pessimism of social structures, controlling narratives and ways members react to critical events, whether through obedience to institutional authority or support for destructive adventurism, creating situations producing cybernetic double binds. The third part contextualizes OEP as ecologically grounded pedagogies through an open source educational processes framework focusing on productive many-to-many online communication and community formation, offering practical examples of open source educational processes curricula implemented in a higher education setting.
Descriptors: Open Education, Educational Practices, Educational Innovation, Internet, Open Educational Resources, Misinformation, Information Dissemination, Teaching Methods, Access to Information, Technology Uses in Education, Information Technology, Community, Computer Mediated Communication
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Language: English
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