Idea worth spreading: Why education should be open in all sorts of ways and what to watch out for

An educator, researcher and strategist, Associate Professor Laura Czerniewicz has worked in the field of educational technology at the University of Cape Town for over a decade, previously working in education and publishing in Zimbabwe and South Africa. The founding Director of the Centre for Educational Technology, she is currently the Director of the OpenUCT Initiative leading the university to open up its knowledge resources to all with internet connectivity and engage globally with the open education agenda and scholarly communication issues from a Southern perspective. Her research interests include open education, scholarly communication, digital scholarship, students' digitally-mediated practices, digital identities and the field of learning technology as a scholarly domain. She blogs at lauraczerniewicz.uct.ac.za and tweets as @czernie