Creating open education requires ...

1. Clear understanding of copyright (i.e., the 'how-to') and making open content easy to share and do. When it came to creating my OER, I found it confusing to know which content I could use or  reuse and how to attribute. During the course, I wondered whether creative commons licensing would ever be understood and applied to support open education or open content by non-OER aficionados, i.e., other than academia, educators in K-12, university and open education advocates.
2. Curation. If you are assembling a patchwork of learning content from different sources, you will need to stitch it together with a common thread. Curation is more than discovery of appropriate content; it requires interpreting other 'people's stuff' or sometimes creating your own to fill the gap stating your learning objectives, and presenting the content as a unified whole.

What I gained from this learning was the opportunity to ...

1. Learn first-hand about the challenges in creating an open education resource, for example, lack of quality resources with the right content licenses or 'rights' and searching for 'open' resources.
2. Develop a point of view through on the attributes of openness in education, with underlying roots in intellectual property and copyright systems, and influences by open scholarship and open publishing.
3. Use new tools such as VUE for creating a concept map and get more comfortable with 'thinking aloud' on my blog for open critical reflection.