New week, new article!
A rather light-hearted article today by Pierre-Antoine Gourraud who tackles the fear of “Plunder”, where you will discover that OER are the opposite of a baguette
… According to him, we are all plundering each other’s knowledge, and that’s fine, because “[Knowledge] does not run out. It multiplies.”
And no, we didn’t confuse with last week’s article by Javiera Atenas (@Javiera) and Leo Havemann (@leohavemann). We do indeed have two articles that refer to Gollum, which is not very surprising given our general theme. When we informed the authors (in a somewhat funny mail discussion), it was decided that to keep everything as is.
Open Educational Resources Under Siege: The Risk of Losing “My Precious” out of Fear of Plunder
Two articles chose the unhealthy relationship between Gollum, Tolkien’s fictional character, and his ring to illustrate the difficulty of sharing. Pierre Antoine Gourraud (Nantes Université, France) shares out of conviction. He is aware that science is built on people borrowing from each other and that participating in this science means plundering and being plundered.
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And thanks to Alan (@cogdog), you can now have the list of all the articles we have already published in different language on the OEWeek website.