<div dir="ltr">Imagine that you were now going to build from scratch a system for the production, organization, and sharing of learning materials globally using the latest technologies, and that you were truly unfettered by the ways we’ve previously done this. What would such system look like?<br>
<br>This question helps establish the organizing principles of our new venture, panOpen. More broadly, it’s a question that bears directly on academic institutions themselves, as they grapple with existential concerns, consider their purpose, and the means of realizing it.<br>
<br>Learning materials are not generally scholarship and they are not original research. They are knowledge and information that instructors use to introduce students to particular subject areas. They are a summary of the established ideas, principles, or theories of a discipline; generally the less controversial or singular these are, the better they serve as a foundation for the subject matter.<div>
<br><a href="https://blog.panopen.com/welcome-to-panopen/">https://blog.panopen.com/welcome-to-panopen/</a></div></div>