Open education is becoming more and more popular now, and inspired by the article, I will discuss two aspects of open education.

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The first aspect is the multidimensional benefits of open educational resources in open education. Open educational resources are more cost effective than traditional paper printed books. In my personal experience, in Canada, the price of a physical textbook is usually around 200 dollars, and books in different subjects tend to have large price differences. Even local students, they also have a deep understanding of this phenomenon. In the winter semester of 2019, many Uvic students spontaneously voted to waive or decrease the taxes on physical textbooks. This suggest the cost effective of the open educational resources. And open educational resources can have all the books you need with just one computer or iPad, and some are even free, and you don’t need to carry textbooks from many different subjects to attend classes. Regarding the open educational resources, I found a link video on the Internet, here is the connection URL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=SX0K0hb_xKE

 

The second aspect is actually more inclined to be a problem. I have learned through the article that all the open education we have seen and observed is implicitly based on a minimum age, or most users of open education, they are all concentrated in one age range, and a large part of them are college or university students. Therefore, since open education and open education resources are more convenient, but there is no obvious trend for its audience to develop towards a younger age. We all know that students are in the junior high school or senior school, they all use the physical textbook, is there any possible that the open education become common in these younger generation? Or this type of education will not be common in the junior high school and senior school in the future?

 

Reference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=SX0K0hb_xKE

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https://www.ilearncollaborative.org/what-are-open-education-resources