"If you make good use of open content, you can actually save money by shifting to a higher access environment," Vander Ark points out.
For example, the OCWC makes use of open content, open access, open standards, open policy and open licensing.
The community, farmers, entrepreneurs, food vendors and suppliers have the potential to make use of open content, open access, open source software, open standards and open hardware.
If one small nonprofit can find at least three cool uses of open content, just imagine what thousands of groups and millions of people could do!
My nonprofit, Benetech, is already using OERs and open content in most of our work.
For example, government and funders are poised to make use of eight of the nine open practices (open content, open data, open access, open government, open sources software, open policy and open licensing), whereas the use of open hardware, which is a relatively new form of open practice, is most likely to be initiated by universities and colleges.
In light of the aforementioned literature, which advocates the use of open-ended questions that allow higher complexity, we added to the final exam open-ended questions dealing with either content or scientific processes (Marx et al., 2004).
Using of open coding, data were coded under various headings according to their content with the purpose of opening up data as well as achieving a constant comparison of incidents and categories that emerged from subsequent interview.
This paper names and describes nine different open practices (Appendix A) stakeholders can use to generate food safety value including: open content (including OER and open courseware), open data, open access (research), open government, open source software, open standards, open policy, open licensing and open hardware.
Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program.
Make use of existing content.
