The TwitterChat tackled some of the most important issues with regard to Open Education. One thing I appreciate the most about TwitterChat is the healthy exchange of ideas between educators and learners. Reading the discussion, I observed that the learners learn from educators and vice versa. This shows that educators no longer dominate the class discussions because learners also have something important to share. For instance, when the learners and educators are discussing where to find resources for teaching/learning, both the learners and teachers actively participated in the discussion through posting the links of free digital libraries that they are using.

In addition to the healthy discussion between educators and learners, TwitterChat also enabled teacher-to-teacher discussions and learner-to-learner discussions. In other words, TwitterChat helped teachers and learners to connect to people whom they share the same interest. It is important for teachers to connect with other teachers because teaching can be challenging sometimes. For this reason, teachers need to help each other out through sharing teaching tips and tricks. Similarly, learning can also be very challenging to students so pieces of advice from their fellow learners would really be a big help. Hence, openness and sharing in education can encourage solidarity and it can also create communities.