Following yesterday’s more technical article on copyright, today’s piece offer a lighter yet equally engaging perspective.
Zoltan Lantos, lecturer and researcher at Semmelweis University in Budapest (Hungary), shares his personal journey with Open Education, and how he discovered “what the Open Educational Resources mindset means to [him]”.
Already sharing resources, albeit somewhat mechanically, he tells us how receiving feedback on a specific module he created led him into a “cycle of improvement”, which evolved into “a new form of professional collaboration”, ultimately showing that “it is the students who benefit the most from all of this”.
A community through sharing by Zoltan Lantos
Zoltan Lantos is a lecturer and researcher at Semmelweis University in Hungary. His story is one shared by many of his colleagues: it begins with a decision to share resources that initially seemed logical, then sees those resources gradually come to life, and ends with a sense of wonder at how they evolve in response to the needs of teachers and students.
Much appreciation to Zoltan for sharing his path to reciprocity, or perhaps it is multi-procity and the line to take away:
It is about entering a shared development community and a continuous cycle of improvement.
It seems that these again is a lesson maybe that cannot be explicitly taught or explained up front, one almost. has to experience this effect in action. It speaks to giving up the chase of perfection or maybe accepting that one design fits not all.
I was thinking of this series today on reading a post by web designer/developer Jeremy Keith about an event called Web Day Out he organized on March 12, which is the same day in 1989 that Tim Berners-Lee submitted his proposal to his director at CERN, the one that eventually would become the World Wide Web. Keith noted:
“Share what you know!” That was the original motto of the World Wide Web project. That was the motto of Web Day Out too.
I got curious trying to find a reference of that being the motto or slogan for the early web project at CERN. Maybe I did not search comprehensively (and AI summaries were not explicit in source), the closest I cam was a story on the 20th anniversary of that event from Phys.org titled www@20: How the techies tamed the cyber zoo.
It just had an unreferenced statement that the "project’s slogan was “let us share what you know.”
Whether it was official or not, to me, the very core of the original world wide web was that unfettered sharing enabled by TBL’s great implementation of the hyperlink.
I felt a resonance with Zoltan’s article and the simple working motto of “share what you know”
Köszönöm Zoltán, hogy megosztottad a történetedet.
and the line to take away: