After reading three articles, I have a new understanding and insights into the open teaching method. I always thought that the open teaching method was only good. Because it allows more people to receive education, and it also makes education equal. I think open education is very diversified. We can come into contact with different knowledge and voices from different places or fields. Moreover, we no longer need to study in a specific place or time. The development of science and technology has also made open education more mature. But these may be some very one-sided understandings of mine.

After I read “Open Teaching Method”, I realized that there are still many things that I don’t know. OER is the most indispensable part of the whole open teaching method, and it is also the foundation of the whole teaching method. The characteristics of OERS in the article: “It can be reused, retained, redistributed, revised and remixed.” Through these five characteristics, I suddenly realized that many of the books and materials we have obtained may only be used once, and we need to spend it. This is not something everyone can afford. I remember when I was in high school, I found that the price of a textbook cost nearly two hundred Canadian dollars. But you may only use this book for one year. If it weren’t for the school to rent, I might not be willing to spend the money to buy this textbook. The existence of OERS precisely solves this problem. It reduces the cost of education and allows more people in the world who could not otherwise receive education to receive the same education.

In the “Design Principles of Indigenous Learning Space”, I learned that the living environment of indigenous people is completely different from ours. Due to some ethnic and cultural issues, the resources they have obtained are very limited, or even lacking. But online open education has greatly changed their lives. They get different resources to learn, and at the same time learn about the indigenous culture in the process of learning, and then use these resources to promote their own culture. Let more people understand them, and also narrow the distance between each other.