Opening Up Education The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge

by Iiyoshi, Toru; Kumar, M.S. Vijay; Brown, John Seely

• ISBN13: 9780262515016
• ISBN10: 0262515016
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-09-24
• Publisher: The MIT Press

Summary

Given the abundance of open education initiatives that aim to make educational assets freely available online, the time seems ripe to explore the potential of open education to transform the economics and ecology of education. Despite the diversity of tools and resources already available-from well-packaged course materials to simple games, for students, self-learners, faculty, and educational institutions-we have yet to take full advantage of shared knowledge about how these are being used, what local innovations are emerging, and how to learn from and build on the experiences of others. Opening Up Educationargues that we must develop not only the technical capability but also the intellectual capacity for transforming tacit pedagogical knowledge into commonly usable and visible knowledge: by providing incentives for faculty to use (and contribute to) open education goods, and by looking beyond institutional boundaries to connect a variety of settings and open source entrepreneurs. These essays by leaders in open education describe successes, challenges, and opportunities they have found in a range of open education initiatives. They approach-from both macro and micro perspectives-the central question of how open education tools, resources, and knowledge can improve the quality of education. The contributors (from leading foundations, academic institutions, associations, and projects) discuss the strategic underpinnings of their efforts first in terms of technology, then content, and finally knowledge. They also address the impact of their projects, and how close they come to achieving a vision of sustainable, transformative educational opportunities that amounts to much more than pervasive technology. Contributors: Richard Baraniuk, Randy Bass, Trent Batson, Dan Bernstein, John Seely Brown, Barbara Cambridge, Tom Carey, Catherine Casserly, James Dalziel, Bernadine Chuck Fong, Richard Gale, Gerard Hanley, Diane Harley, Mary Huber, Pat Hutchings, Toru Iiyoshi, David Kahle, M. S. Vijay Kumar, Andy Lane, Diana Laurillard, Stuart Lee, Steve Lerman, Marilyn Lombardi, Phil Long, Clifford Lynch, Christopher Mackie, Anne Margulies, Owen McGrath, Flora McMartin, Shigeru Miyagawa, Diana Oblinger, Neeru Paharia, Cheryl Richardson, Marshall Smith, Candace Thille, Edward Walker, and David Wiley Through the support of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, an electronic version of this book is openly available under a Creative Commons license on The MIT Press website.

Author Biography

Toru Iiyoshi is Senior Scholar and Director of the Knowledge Media Lab at the Carnegie Foundation.

John Seely Brown is the former Chief Scientist at Xerox and Director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). He is currently Independent Cochair for Deloitte's Center for the Edge, advisor to the Provost at University of Southern California. He is coauthor of The Social Life of Information and other books.

Steven R. Lerman is a faculty member of the Civil Engineering Department at MIT and affiliated with its Center for Transportation Studies.

Shigeru Miyagawa is Professor of Linguistics and Kochi-Manjiro Professor of Japanese Language and Culture at MIT. He is the author of Why Agree? Why Move? Unifying Agreement-Based and Discourse-Configurational Languages (MIT Press).

Table of Contents

Foreword: Creating a Culture of Learning	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Introduction: An Invitation to Open Up the Future of Education	p. 1
Open Educational Technology	p. 11
Section Introduction	p. 13
öOpen Educational Technology: Tempered Aspirationsö
öDesigning Open Educational Technologyö	p. 27
öThe Gates Are Shut: Technical and Cultural Barriers to Open Educationö	p. 47
öDoes an Open Source Strategy Matter? Lessons Learned from the iLabs Projectö	p. 61
öEvaluating the Results of Open Educationö	p. 77
öA Harvest Too Large? A Framework for Educational Abundanceö	p. 89
öDigital Libraries, Learning Communities, and Open Educationö	p. 105
öOpen Source in Open Education: Promises and Challengesö	p. 119
Open Educational Content	p. 133
Section Introduction: ôOpen Educational Content: Transforming Access to Educationö	p. 135
öWidening Participation in Education through Open Educational Resourcesö	p. 149
öBuilding Open Learning as a Community-based Research Activityö	p. 165
öExtending the Impact of Open Educational Resources through Alignment with Pedagogical Content Knowledge and Institutional Strategy: Lessons Learned from the MERLOT Community Experienceö	p. 181
öWhy Understanding the Use	p. 197
öOpenCourseWare: Building a Culture of Sharingö	p. 213
öChallenges and Opportunities for the Open Education Movement: A Connexions Case Studyö	p. 229
ö2005-2012: The OpenCourseWarsö	p. 247
öRevolutionizing Education through Innovation: Can Openness Transform Teaching and Learning?ö	p. 261
Open Educational Knowledge	p. 277
Section Introduction: ôOpen Educational Knowledge: More than Opening the Classroom Doorö	p. 279
öInquiry Unplugged: A Scholarship of Teaching	p. 289
öThe Middle of Open Spaces: Generating Knowledge about Learning through Multiple Layers of Open Teaching Communitiesö	p. 303
öOpen Teaching: The Key to Sustainable	p. 319
öPromoting Technology-enabled Knowledge Building and Sharing for Sustainable Open Educational Innovationsö	p. 337
öScaffolding for Systemic Changeö	p. 357
öLearning Design: Sharing Pedagogical Know-Howö	p. 375
öCommon Knowledge: Openness in Higher Educationö	p. 389
öOpen for What? A Case Study of Institutional Leadership and Transformationö	p. 401
öWhat's Next for Open Knowledge?ö	p. 417
Conclusion: New Pathways for Shaping the Collective Agenda to Open Up Education	p. 429
About the Authors	p. 441
Index	p. 451
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