Title:
Opening up education : the collective advancement of education through open technology, open content, and open knowledge
Publication Information:
Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, 2008
Physical Description:
xx, 477 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780262033718
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Summary
Summary
Experts discuss the potential for open education tools, resources, and knowledge to transform the economics and ecology of education.
Author Notes
M. S. Vijay Kumar is Senior Associate Dean and Director of the Office of Educational Innovation and Technology at MIT.
Table of Contents
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| Foreword: Creating a Culture of Learning | p. xi |
| Acknowledgments | p. xix |
| Introduction: An Invitation to Open Up the Future of Education | p. 1 |
| Section I Open Educational Technology | p. 11 |
| 1 Section Introduction "Open Educational Technology: Tempered Aspirations" | p. 13 |
| 2 "Designing Open Educational Technology" | p. 27 |
| 3 "The Gates Are Shut: Technical and Cultural Barriers to Open Education" | p. 47 |
| 4 "Does an Open Source Strategy Matter? Lessons Learned from the iLabs Project" | p. 61 |
| 5 "Evaluating the Results of Open Education" | p. 77 |
| 6 "A Harvest Too Large? A Framework for Educational Abundance" | p. 89 |
| 7 "Digital Libraries, Learning Communities, and Open Education" | p. 105 |
| 8 "Open Source in Open Education: Promises and Challenges" | p. 119 |
| Section II Open Educational Content | p. 133 |
| 9 Section Introduction "Open Educational Content: Transforming Access to Education" | p. 135 |
| 10 "Widening Participation in Education through Open Educational Resources" | p. 149 |
| 11 "Building Open Learning as a Community-based Research Activity" | p. 165 |
| 12 "Extending the Impact of Open Educational Resources through Alignment with Pedagogical Content Knowledge and Institutional Strategy: Lessons Learned from the MERLOT Community Experience" | p. 181 |
| 13 "Why Understanding the Use and Users of Open Education Matters" | p. 197 |
| 14 "OpenCourseWare: Building a Culture of Sharing" | p. 213 |
| 15 "Challenges and Opportunities for the Open Education Movement: A Connexions Case Study" | p. 229 |
| 16 "2005-2012: The OpenCourseWars" | p. 247 |
| 17 "Revolutionizing Education through Innovation: Can Openness Transform Teaching and Learning?" | p. 261 |
| Section III Open Educational Knowledge | p. 277 |
| 18 Section Introduction "Open Educational Knowledge: More than Opening the Classroom Door" | p. 279 |
| 19 "Inquiry Unplugged: A Scholarship of Teaching and Learning for Open Understanding" | p. 289 |
| 20 "The Middle of Open Spaces: Generating Knowledge about Learning through Multiple Layers of Open Teaching Communities" | p. 303 |
| 21 "Open Teaching: The Key to Sustainable and Effective Open Education" | p. 319 |
| 22 "Promoting Technology-enabled Knowledge Building and Sharing for Sustainable Open Educational Innovations" | p. 337 |
| 23 "Scaffolding for Systemic Change" | p. 357 |
| 24 "Learning Design: Sharing Pedagogical Know-How" | p. 375 |
| 25 "Common Knowledge: Openness in Higher Education" | p. 389 |
| 26 "Open for What? A Case Study of Institutional Leadership and Transformation" | p. 401 |
| 27 "What's Next for Open Knowledge?" | p. 417 |
| Conclusion: New Pathways for Shaping the Collective Agenda to Open Up Education | p. 429 |
| About the Authors | p. 441 |
| Index | p. 451 |
