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M.S. Vijay Kumar, MIT
Toru Iiyoshi, Knowledge Media Lab, Carnegie Foundation
Opening Up Education
Educause Webcast Oct 17, 2008
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A Collaborative Publication ProjectA Collaborative Publication Project• “How can we advance teaching and
learning by taking full advantage of open education?”
• A hardcover book + free online distribution with Creative Commons
• 30 chapters by 38 prominent leaders and visionaries (Foreword by John Seely Brown)
• Lessons learned and visions of the future from: OKI, IMS, CNI, Sakai, Moodle, ETUDES, iCampus, VUE, Mellon Foundation, OCW, Connexions, OLI, MERLOT, OpenLearn, SOFIA, Creative Commons, LAMS, Hewlett Foundation, CASTL, VKP, ISSOTL, Open University, Carnegie Foundation, and more The Carnegie Foundation’s Book on
Open Education (Winter 2008, MIT Press)2
The educational value proposition and implications of open education initiatives
The micro and macro factors that would accelerate these initiatives towards having a larger impact on education
The means and mechanism for iteratively and continuously improving the quality of teaching and learning through effective development and sharing of educational innovations and pedagogical knowledge
Opening Up Education: Key Opening Up Education: Key
DimensionsDimensions
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How can we enable and encourage learners and educators to productively participate in open education?
What does open education mean as an agency for change both in formal and informal education?
How can niche learning communities take advantage of open educational tools, resources, and knowledge of practice?
What support needs to be provided?
Understanding and Promoting the Understanding and Promoting the
Impact ofImpact of
Open Education: Big Questions Open Education: Big Questions
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Open Technolog
y
Open Content
Open Knowledge
Opening Up Education: A FrameworkOpening Up Education: A Framework
Section Editor:Owen McGrath
Trent BatsonDavid KahleM. S. Vijay KumarStuart LeeSteve LermanPhil LongClifford LynchChristopher MackieNeeru PahariaEdward Walker
Section Editor:Flora McMartin
Richard BaraniukTom CareyCatherine CasserlyGerard HanleyDiane HarleyAndy LaneAnne MarguliesShigeru MiyagawaMarshall SmithCandace ThilleDavid Wiley
Section Editor:Cheryl Richardson
Randy BassDan BernsteinBarbara CambridgeJames DalzielBernadine Chuck FongRichard GaleMary HuberPat HutchingsToru IiyoshiDiana LaurillardMarilyn LombardiDiana Oblinger
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The iLab Vision
Service Broker
Lab Server
Client
Campus network Internet
University Databases
• Order of magnitude more lab experiences• More lab time to users/researchers• More sophisticated labs available• Communities of scholars created around iLabs sharing educational & research content
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AcceleratingAccelerating Global MovementGlobal Movement
Higher Education
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Professor Richard HallLaTrobe University in Melbourne, Australia, now teaching information systems, beginning
microprocessors, and advanced computer-aided software engineering. OCW saved him “an enormous amount of time and stress.”
“I was delighted by the way the material is so coherently presented. It is truly inspiring to see this level of excellence.”
Making a DifferenceMaking a Difference – Educator – Educator UseUse
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Kunle Adejumo, Engineering student at Ahmadu Bello Universityin Zaria, Nigeria
“Last semester, I had a course in metallurgical engineering. I didn’t have notes, so I went to OCW. I downloaded a course outline on this, and also some review questions, and these helped me gain a deeper understanding of the material.”
Making a DifferenceMaking a Difference – Student – Student UseUse
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OER Value PropositionOER Value Proposition
Open high quality digitized educational content, tools and communities
Available anytime, anywhere for free Localizable and re-mixable Allows for collective improvement and
feedback Alternate way to learn: Alternate way to learn:
Accelerate/deepen learningAccelerate/deepen learning Scaling excellenceScaling excellence
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Opportunities and ChallengesOpportunities and Challengesin Open Knowledge Sharingin Open Knowledge Sharing
Ability of learning technologies to be integrated together into Ability of learning technologies to be integrated together into an educational infrastructure. an educational infrastructure.
Easier sharing of applications and content among institutions Easier sharing of applications and content among institutions that can be a catalyst for cooperative and commercial that can be a catalyst for cooperative and commercial development. development.
Lower long term cost of software ownership, as well as Lower long term cost of software ownership, as well as increased stability and reliability for example through increased stability and reliability for example through replacement/upgrading of single components, rather than replacement/upgrading of single components, rather than entire systems,. entire systems,.
Making tacit and local knowledge of effective teaching and Making tacit and local knowledge of effective teaching and learning visible and useful to others (both globally and locally) . learning visible and useful to others (both globally and locally) .
The commons must serve both as a repository and a seedbed. The commons must serve both as a repository and a seedbed. Open knowledge is not simply about making new pedagogical Open knowledge is not simply about making new pedagogical work available. It is about creating the conditions in which work available. It is about creating the conditions in which ever better ideas and models can come forward.ever better ideas and models can come forward.
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Does open education shed new light on the persistent, hard problems of education with respect to access and quality, and perhaps offer new solutions?
Does it provide a fresh new look at the practice of education, necessitated by that flatness and fortunes expected of the new global dynamics of mobility and emerging economies?
What new pathways does open education offer to improve education as a whole?
Recommendation #1Recommendation #1
Investigate the Transformative Potential and Ecological Transitions
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What fresh perspective on resources and relationships does open education demand?
What would be a good model(s) for building receptivity to open educational resources at many levels through effective professional and leadership development?
How can we help educational institutions allocate resources towards building support necessary capacity for faculty and students in fully utilizing open educational resources?
Change Education’s Culture and Change Education’s Culture and PolicyPolicy
Recommendation #2
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Is Education Ready Is Education Ready for Opening Up Education?for Opening Up Education?
Inertial FramesInertial Frames Scarcity vs. AbundanceScarcity vs. Abundance Pundit-Pupil vs. Peer-PeerPundit-Pupil vs. Peer-Peer Outdated premises (Historical Evolution)Outdated premises (Historical Evolution)
Enabling Structures Enabling Structures Sense MakingSense Making
Ordering the digital disorder Ordering the digital disorder Teacher educationTeacher education Facilitative infrastructure (Technical; Organizational; Facilitative infrastructure (Technical; Organizational;
Financial)Financial) Accountability and AccreditationAccountability and Accreditation
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Programmatic and technical integration
How can we tightly integrate open education efforts with educational program priorities?
Synthesis and synergy
How can we look beyond institutional and other boundaries and connect efforts among many settings, and seek complementarities and productive combinations?
Governance
• How can open education initiatives take advantage of both widely distributed nature and collectivity in leading their efforts?
Make Open Education Solutions Make Open Education Solutions SustainableSustainable
Recommendation #3
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InfluencesInfluences
CollectivityCollectivity Participatory, Collaborative practices for developing
and sharing educational materials Social Software, networks….. Virtual Environments: Second Life. Remix
Design Agency Sustainability
Enablers:Open & Community Source; Creative CommonsOpen Architecture; Interoperability (OKI; eFrameworks.)
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How can we facilitate community inquiry and discourse, making diverse pedagogical know-how visible and transferable in intellectually engaging and rewarding ways?
How can we help educators and educational institutions build their intellectual and technical capacity to create and share quality educational knowledge, and transform “tacit knowledge” into “commonly usable knowledge”?
Make Practice and Make Practice and Knowledge Visible and Knowledge Visible and
ShareableShareable
Recommendation #4
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http://commons.carnegiefoundation.org
All of these are freely available to the public!
Web 2.0Niche CoP, Social learning about T&L
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A Circle of Knowledge Building and Sharing:A Circle of Knowledge Building and Sharing:Promoting the Scholarship of Teaching & Promoting the Scholarship of Teaching &
LearningLearning
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What kind of mechanisms do we need to devise to harvest, accumulate, and distribute locally created educational assets, pedagogical innovations, and wisdom of practice in a way that can be reused effectively in different local contexts? (e.g., “Education Concierge”)
To foster the spawning and sharing of new ideas and models for innovative learning and teaching, what conditions need to be created through the collectivity culture?
How can we create a vast network of educational knowledge-bases that inspires and helps to inform future efforts?
Build the Commons Build the Commons through the Collectivity through the Collectivity
CultureCulture
Recommendation #5
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increase quality of tools and resources;
promote more effective use; and
advance individual and collective (and local and global) knowledge of teaching and learning.
Three Dramatic Improvements in EducationThree Dramatic Improvements in Education
By openly sharing educational tools, resources, and
knowledge, we could:
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Open Education Vision Open Education Vision Elements Elements
Blended Learning Blended Learning – Intelligently combine the physical and the Intelligently combine the physical and the
virtualvirtual– Integrate conventional pedagogy with net-Integrate conventional pedagogy with net-
learning to deliver qualitylearning to deliver quality (relevant) educational opportunities(relevant) educational opportunities
Boundary-less EducationBoundary-less Education Beyond geo-politicalBeyond geo-political Across DisciplinesAcross Disciplines
Thematic EducationThematic Education Research-Education/LearningResearch-Education/Learning
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We are seeing the early emergence of a meta-university—a transcendent, accessible, empowering, dynamic, communally constructed framework of open materials and platforms on which much of higher education worldwide can be constructed or enhanced.” --Charles M. Vest, President Emeritus, MIT, (p. 30). (Vest, C. (2006). Enabling Meta University, EDUCAUSE Review, May/June, (41:3), 18-30, http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm06/erm0630.asp)
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Book Release WebEvent:
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Opening Up Education Discussion Forum:
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