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title: "A Few Thoughts About... Why is the Grav Open Course Hub, Well... Open?"
date: 04/18/2017
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    'twitter:title' : A Few Thoughts About... Why is the Grav Open Course Hub, Well... Open?
    'twitter:description' : A collection of tweets highlighting the openness of the Grav Course Hub project.
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_I recently tweeted some reasons why the [Grav Open Course Hub](https://github.com/hibbitts-design/grav-skeleton-course-hub) is actually Open, and I thought I would share them here:_

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">(1/5) What makes the <a href="https://twitter.com/getgrav">@getgrav</a> CMS Open Course Hub, well... open?</p>&mdash; Hibbitts Design (@hibbittsdesign) <a href="https://twitter.com/hibbittsdesign/status/852606828600897536">April 13, 2017</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/getgrav">@getgrav</a> (2/5) All raw content can be made publicly accessible to support the 5R&#39;s (retain, reuse, revise, remix and redistribute).</p>&mdash; Hibbitts Design (@hibbittsdesign) <a href="https://twitter.com/hibbittsdesign/status/852606877674360832">April 13, 2017</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/getgrav">@getgrav</a> (3/5) Open and collaborative tools like GitHub, GitLab (which can be locally-hosted), etc. can be used to support a participative culture.</p>&mdash; Hibbitts Design (@hibbittsdesign) <a href="https://twitter.com/hibbittsdesign/status/852606953100419072">April 13, 2017</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/getgrav">@getgrav</a> (4/5) Content is stored in the platform-independent format of Markdown, which also naturally separates content from presentation logic.</p>&mdash; Hibbitts Design (@hibbittsdesign) <a href="https://twitter.com/hibbittsdesign/status/852607025838145536">April 13, 2017</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/getgrav">@getgrav</a> (5/5) Being open source itself, and being built with the elegantly architected <a href="https://twitter.com/getgrav">@getgrav</a>, customization by course participants is possible.</p>&mdash; Hibbitts Design (@hibbittsdesign) <a href="https://twitter.com/hibbittsdesign/status/852607078380085249">April 13, 2017</a></blockquote>
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