The Open Agenda and Organisational Alignment
Jerry Leeson, Jon Mason · 2007
This paper discusses the broad context of what we describe as the ‘open agenda’ – the aggregate effect of trends within the education and training sector toward a growing advocacy and adoption of ‘openness’; as in open source software, open standards, open content licensing and open access to such content. The discussion on these topics is illustrated with a casestudy of organisational alignment and development, providing an historical snapshot of the changes that have taken place as a direct result of this open agenda. The primary conclusion drawn is that this agenda is likely to continue its influence upon the structure and character of such organisations.