Participatory culture and Open Educational Resources

Abstract

The article examines the new competencies – required and embedded – in the new youth participatory culture. It introduces the OER – Open Educational Resources – as both an opportunity and a challenge to educational institutions that respond to the youth culture based on openness, on social connections, and on networking. In particular, OER will be individuated as a practice that responds to the “participatory culture” incorporating it. Open Access represents the core of the youth culture that is building up around and through the new forms of circulation of information and knowledge. Open Access approach in the educational system represents an education policy that embeds the dynamics of the new youth participatory culture.

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Buffardi A. (2013) "Participatory culture and Open Educational Resources " Italian Journal of Sociology of Education, 5(3), 218-245. DOI: 10.14658/PUPJ-IJSE-2013-3-12  
Year of Publication
2013
Journal
Italian Journal of Sociology of Education
Volume
5
Issue Number
3
Start Page
218
Last Page
245
Date Published
10/2013
ISSN Number
2035-4983
Serial Article Number
12
DOI
10.14658/PUPJ-IJSE-2013-3-12
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Section
Articles