Essay - Openness and Student Centred Learning (SCL): An Exploration of Peer Learning (PL) and Prosumer Innovation in the Knowledge Economy.

Book excerpt: ESSAY: Excerpt *APA Referencing Imagine yourself behind a conveyor belt with an air-powered tool in your hand assembling vehicles for Toyota in a factory in Japan. I am sure that after several years working for the company, you would appreciate if your employer could ask you: “How could we improve this assembly line?”, and “What are your ideas for changing the way we assemble here?”; “I want you to collaborate with the other workers and come up with some innovative ideas to improve or change the way we do things here?” These are just the type of questions the world out there is asking the worldwide community (internet users). The education revolution has done just that. From ‘crowdsourcing’ to ‘hacking’, and other new online strategies, ‘production lines’ of knowledge creation has evolved exponentially. Just as mass production in the advent of Fordism went through some developmental stages, Open Education (OE) has gone through some radical changes over the past twenty years. Many academia calls it an education revolution.... Keywords and Phrases: Open Education (OE), crowdsourcing, hacking, Fordism, globalisation, democratised, decentralised, student-centred, prosumer innovation, collective intelligence, knowledge economy, peer-to-peer, P2P, peer production, peer governance, common property, community of learners, co-create, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, MOOCs, OER, Open Education Resource , intellectual property, global citizen (GC), web semantics, co-construction, community of practice, situated cognition, openness, knowledge capitalism, historicism, Karl Popper, Henri Bergson, George Soros, Immanuel Kant, fallibilism, open society, free will, authoritarianism, totalitarianism, sustainability, Yochai Benkler, social production, teacher-centred, student-centred, individual education programmes (IEP’s)