Open education movement in the XXI century: personal reflection

Abstract

The XX century has witnessed a tremendous expansion of education systems at school and university levels. However, despite the extensive growth, education and science systems across countries have faced different challenges that impede their further expansion. The primary goals for education in XXI century become the support the growth of the knowledge-based economy (OECD, 1996) Specifically, an expansion of education did not result in the higher equality: “an expansion of access to education, particularly tertiary education, does not automatically result in greater equity in educational attainment” (OECD, 2018, p. 13).

The purpose of the present paper is to discuss the open science movements and its key values, which contribute to the development of education in accordance with the expectations of the knowledge economy. The author of the paper has participated in several open science projects, including the RepliCATS, OLS and SCORE, so the paper concludes with personal reflection.