The Twitter chat held in Thursday evening mainly discussed about several questions about open learning. It is happy to see that many people engage in this activity, and some of them are not the students in the course. I think the most significant difference between distributed environments and open environments is that open environments allow us to communicate with a larger scale of people. Those people may not learn the same course with you, but they can still discuss the specific topic with you and put forward some useful ideas.
From the questions discussed, I review the knowledge about open pedagogy. Firstly, the term “open” is related to sharing, which means that you can access the learning resources of others and your ideas can also be viewed by others. The platforms such as WordPress and Twitter are good example of open environments. In open environments, you are not only learning knowledge, but also creating knowledge as your works are published and can be accessed by others. However, one of the questions is talking about the people who are excluded when learning is open, which reveals the drawbacks of open learning. Because some of the students may have difficulty accessing the open website. For example, some of the students may not have a computer. Those students will be excluded from open learning.
All in all, open pedagogy as a new form of pedagogy has shown its strength and potential. In this digital age, open pedagogy gradually becomes a trend of learning in the fut