ABSTRACT

This article defines the concept of open recognition and places its development within the context of the development of Wikipedia. The potential impact of open recognition on higher education is explored. This article defines Open Recognition as consisting of three elements a philosophy, a framework, and a practice. Open recognition has the potential to fundamentally alter higher education by lowering costs of reporting learner knowledge, skills, and abilities, while altering the scope of recognition to add informal recognition. Both open recognition and Wikipedia share common features and can both be categorised as open knowledge movements. However, in order to succeed as a robust network, Wikipedia had to overcome scepticism and public distrust around reporting accurate and relevant knowledge, partly by making its writing around knowledge formation visible. This article observes how Wikipedia overcame these obstacles and demonstrates how a fully mature and robust open recognition framework can create more durable experiences to connect learners to employers and the public.

摘要

本文定义了开放识别的概念，并将其发展置于维基百科发展的背景下。探索了开放承认对高等教育的潜在影响。本文将开放识别定义为由哲学、框架和实践三个要素组成。开放式认可有可能通过降低报告学习者知识、技能和能力的成本从根本上改变高等教育，同时改变认可的范围以增加非正式认可。开放识别和维基百科都有共同的特征，都可以归类为开放知识运动。然而，为了成为一个强大的网络，维基百科必须克服对报告准确和相关知识的怀疑和公众不信任，部分是通过使其围绕知识形成的写作可见。本文观察维基百科如何克服这些障碍，并展示一个完全成熟和强大的开放识别框架如何创造更持久的体验，将学习者与雇主和公众联系起来。