| dc.description.abstract | The concept of openness is usually discussed in relation to technological developments
that facilitated its emergence (Peter and Deimann, 2013), in particular, the rise of digital
technology and the Internet, which are changing the nature of information by making it
more accessible to anyone and making it more ‘responsive’, allowing information to be
enhanced or degraded by anyone (Peter and Deimann, 2013). Openness is being also
driven by the fundamental philosophical claim that knowledge should be considered a
common good and be accessible as openly as possible. In the context of high costs of
education and the need to make education more accessible and aff ordable, it has been
argued that, if education is paid for by the public, then research and content produced
with those public funds should be publicly available (Wiley, Green, and Soares, 2012). | es_ES |
