I have noticed that open learning is a vast field and it provides more opportunities for people. It is readily available on many platforms. It is precisely for people who choose to participate in learning experience because the information is openly available on the web, and people do so for the sake of their knowledge and not for any credit. This is neither included in any degree, nor they get marks for it (Coolidge, 2017). The authors mentioned that faculty spend 40% of their time in research and teaching and the remaining 20% on service. While according to my opinion faculty should do it 50 50. They should spend 50% of their time on research and the other 50% in teaching. The learning process also depends on you as a learner. It depends on how much effort you put in as a learner. Your participation in creating and sharing knowledge and your willingness to learn more and more. It also depends on your hard work and motivation (Coolidge, 2017).

Sometimes I wonder to create a platform which provides access to people. Still, some people can’t afford tuition fees and these expensive laptops and tablets. Why gaining knowledge is so much expensive. Why it takes so much, besides this, I wonder why students don’t have access to everything they want to search. Digital redlining did not allow access to every site (Gilliard, 2019). This privacy is imposed by school or college for students to remain in certain limits. Students feel unproductive when their researches fail due to lack of knowledge. The idea of being productive inspires me a lot. Platforms which prioritize the gathering of user data and then displays content based on past views allows open learning which provides education and awareness to many people. This kind of work inspires me which people do to make others aware and provide education on something while sitting home. People who work hard for others inspires me a lot (Gilliard, 2019).

I can post my research on an open learning platform so people could learn from my research. I will give equal opportunities to older individuals and try to learn the maximum from their knowledge. I will create space for people to perform. Space where learners could learn and older individuals to be the mentors.

Reference:

Coolidge, A., Andrzejewski, A., Ashok, A., Hyde, A., Squires, D., Higginbotham, G., . . . University Teaching Fellow in Open Studies at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. (2017, August 29). Open Pedagogy. Retrieved July 21, 2020, from https://press.rebus.community/makingopentextbookswithstudents/chapter/open-pedagogy/

Gilliard, C. (2019, April 11). Press. Retrieved July 21, 2020, from https://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p197731/html/ch04.html?referer=