1. What do these overviews of the field have in common? Well, I read the reports. The common key word is Open Educational Resource (OER) and I thought about the difference between Open Content and OER. With the World Wide Web humanity can access to a lot of resources like never before, but only few of them are good for education; the contents must be modified in Educational Resource. This why in educational field "content" is only a component of the teaching/learning process. Meny other variables must be considered. All the three reports speak about OER as: "full courses, course materials, modules, text books, streaming video and audio, and any other technical tools..." and so on. Their technical attributes to be a OER are:
   • interoperable;
   • accessible;
   • re-usable;
   • free;
   • digital;
   • shared;
   • easy to be changed and translated;
   • the way to supply them is the open source sw;
   • the privileged media is the new technology;
   • the preferred way to share them is Creative Common Licence (By NC SA).
   • create contents repository open and free.
2. What do they emphasize differently?  All the three books emphasize  an "emergence"; the principal ones are:
   • reduce the "digital divide";
   • change, through the new technology the didactical methods;
   • find an achitectural world  or local network to share the OER easier.
     I think all these three aims must walk on together, in the same time.
3. What are the aims of the authors of each report?  
   • the first report "Giving knowledge for free" I think is to create a thought and a  way to share OER for University.
   • the second "OLCOS" report  wants to further a new age of learning and knowledge and try to find the keys to change the european way to teach/learn
   • the third report "Hewlett Foundation", gives also a perspective of the new  didactical way to teach/learn
4. Do you see a bias toward or against any ideas, organizations, or approaches in any of the reports? I generally agree with all three repots:
   • The International University Community can have only advantages by sharing educational resources (with a particular care to the developing countries; not only OER but a way to create them). This for economical efficiency and exchanges between researchers who look for the same goals.
   • Olcos speaks me about new perspectives of europen learning; teaching problems that I live all the day long.
   • Hewlett is oriented to pedagogical answers, in particular why and how people (of different age) want to learn. I liked very much the section of the learning games in wich is important the emotional component.
     Sometimes I don't agree with solution like:
   • Content, not the course, must be free. Every learning process have to create for a target of people in a particular context. The teacher must to adapt the contents for their students.
   • I think, and hope, the Learning Licence will be free  without "Share Alike  I'm for Creative Common Licence -Attribution- Non Commercial, only
   • I'm for the Web 2.0 blended with a LMS(open) , because sometimes it's easy to get lost on the web, specially with the beginners.
5. Wich report spoke the most clearly to you, and why do you think it did?  I'm interested by OLCOS report because I'm european, so I can understand better what it means. We are a new "federation" where the 25 countries speak 25 different languages (or more) so we've a more problem then U.S.A (where the lenguages are two or three). Now we're going to create a new culture, also by sharing contents, but In my country (Italy), teachers normally, don't speak English, we've a big "digital divide" wich is becomming bigger. That's why  also younger teacher don't know the didactical use of ITC, students (boys and girls) use PC or i-Pod only for entertainment. So, government , parents, media, people of school, see the ITC as a distracting thing. The result is that the schools close their ITC lab! It' hard to go on!!!
6. Based on where the field is now, and these initial ideas about where it might go, what part of the open education movement is most interesting to you? Why? As I  wrote in the Week 1 is very important to form a new class of teacher, wich can create OER and use new technology because we need, over all, to have  teachers with different role and didactical habit.  In this course, the italian students are  not the younger ones , and it is very sad.  Other european countries are  more advanced  than  us, and I'm afraid  the distances will become bigger.  But these are the first steps   to  improve  the sharing ad collaboration. I hope so.

Emanuela Zibordi