Main Page

2012 Hewlett OER Grantees Meeting

Meeting: April 10-12, 2012

Hack Day: April 13, 2012

Harvard University

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hewlettmeeting2012/about/

ABOUT

Problem Statement

Open Educational Resources (OER) [1] are becoming an increasingly rich and promising source of teaching and learning materials, with rapid global growth [2] across widely varied learning environments, communities, and contexts. While more important work remains to be done on all fronts, the OER movement has matured from innovative upstart to an important driver in the field of education. At this point, teachers, administrators, advocates, funders, and policymakers are looking for ways to strategically leverage the impact of existing and future open resources — including content, tools, and implementing resources — on education. Against this backdrop, the 2012 Hewlett Foundation Grantees meeting will explore the following questions: As the quantity and diversity of open resources proliferate and different OER models emerge, what concrete actions can be taken to further strengthen and leverage their impact on teaching and learning as facilitators of innovation and quality? How do we confront questions around accessibility, equity, and impact? The meeting will bring together key stakeholders to address these questions, from different perspectives, describe the current state of OER from a field perspective, and work together towards a roadmap for action.

Meeting Concept and Goals

The 2012 Hewlett Foundation Grantees meeting will be hosted at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Its thematic focus is Education— the “E” within OER—with the overarching objective of developing an action-oriented roadmap for strengthening OER by increasing its impact across different educational contexts, from classrooms to informal learning settings. Three (sometimes overlapping, but analytically distinct) stakeholder perspectives will form the central pillars of the inquiry: learners (“demand side”), facilitators (“interfaces”), and builders (“supply side”). Evidence, narratives, and the role of supporting infrastructure will be considered throughout the sessions.

The meeting will start with a segment on the current state of play within the OER landscape, with a focus on utilizing a field perspective to identify trends regarding the production, dissemination, use, and impact of OER resources across different educational contexts. With these field-wide objectives in mind, this segment will also outline Hewlett’s strategic OER goals for 2012, and present an opportunity for cross comparison and evaluation of areas of the OER ecosystem that are ripe for investment and growth.

Based on this mapping, the second segment of the event will feature a series of case studies highlighting OER practices across different learning and teaching environments. In this segment, grantees will have the opportunity to present and evaluate their projects through the thematic lens of the meeting (focus on “E”), develop and exchange narratives, data, and experiences regarding the challenges and opportunities for growth of OER, and identify specific points of connection, leverage, collaboration, and intervention to increase its impact across different educational settings. A facilitated discussion will ground the third segment of the meeting and center on the core infrastructure that needs to be strengthened or created in order to increase the impact of OER in diverse contexts on a global scale. Accessibility, interoperability, enabling (public) policies, implementable standards, and core methodologies to measure impact and progress will be debated and explored.

The overarching goals of the 2012 meeting are to:

• Deepen understanding of the OER ecosystem, with a particular focus on the various factors that influence the production, ubiquity, and accessibility of open resources for education, and identify ways to increase OER’s impact across different cultures, communities, and settings of (formal and informal) learning and teaching;
• Identify, communicate, and discuss field-wide goals for 2012, against the backdrop of Hewlett’s OER strategic goals and a description of the current state of OER from a field perspective;
• Increase visibility/awareness of OER projects among grantees, identify powerful narratives and best practices, highlight areas of collaboration and future intervention;
• Facilitate a community of practice through conversation and identifying opportunities for collaboration
• Develop an action-oriented roadmap to leverage OER’s impact on education that reflects these objectives and takes into account our collective mapping of the core threats and opportunities in 2012.

[1] What do we mean by this term? We would seek to use Hewlett’s definition of this in addition to other ways educators, organizers, and institutions have described it http://wiki.creativecommons.org/What_is_…)

[2] http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/images/0/0b/OER_…

LINKS

• Main website
• About
• Agenda

ATTENDEES

Please add your contact information, bio, and any relevant links to this section.

• Hal Abelson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Nicole Allen, Center for Public Interest Student Organizing
• Jophus Anamuah-Mensah, Open University
• Andrew Armentano, Qatar Foundation International
• Kwasi Asari
• Lila Bailey, UC Berkeley/Boalt Law School
• Richard Baraniuk, Rice University
• Jonathan Bergmann, Flipped Classroom
• Karien Bezuidenhout, Shuttleworth Foundation/Siyavula
• Ed Bice, Meedan-Qatar Foundation
• Ahrash Bissell, Monterey Institute for Technology and Education
• Tony Bloome, US Agency for International Development
• Linda Burch, Common Sense Media

• Neil Butcher, South African Institute for Distance Education

  neilshel@nba.co.za

Neil Butcher is based in South Africa, from where he has provided policy and technical advice and support to a range of national and international clients regarding educational planning, uses of educational technology and distance education, both as a full-time employee at the South African Institute for Distance Education (SAIDE) from 1993 to 2001 and as Director of Neil Butcher & Associates. He has worked with various educational institutions, assisting with transformation efforts that focus on effectively harnessing the potential of distance education methods, educational technology, and OER. Neil has travelled extensively through the world conducting research on higher education, distance education, and educational technology for a range of organizations, governments, and donors. He is currently working with SAIDE on its OER Africa Initiative, which is funded by the Hewlett Foundation and is managing the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa’s Educational Technology Initiative.

• Steve Carson, OpenCourseWare Consortium

  scarson at mit dot edu

Steve is External Relations Director for MIT OpenCourseWare (http://ocw.mit.edu). His responsibilities include sustainability initiatives; strategic partnerships with other organizations; MIT OpenCourseWare's support of opencourseware projects at other institutions; special projects in priority areas; and project evaluation. Steve also served as the first president of the OpenCourseWare Consortium from 2008 to 2011, where he oversaw the incorporation of the organization as an independent non-proft, secured funding to support its operation and helped grow membership to include more than 250 universities globally. He currently serves on the organization's board of directors. Prior to joining the MIT OpenCourseWare team, Steve served as Associate Director of Emerson College's Division of Continuing Education in Boston, where - in addition to managing core academic activities of the division - he developed and taught Emerson's first asynchronous, Web-based distance learning course. Steve earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College, and taught creative and expository writing there for five years.

• Carla Casilli, Mozilla Foundation
• Catherine Casserly, Creative Commons

cathy@creativecommons.org
Catherine M. Casserly is CEO of Creative Commons. Cathy’s career is dedicated to openness, and particularly to leveraging possibilities at the boundaries of formal and informal learning to equalize educational opportunity. She has been a long-time advocate of open educational resources (OER). As the Director of the OER Initiative at The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation she managed investments totaling more than $100 million to harness the efficiency and effectiveness of knowledge sharing worldwide. At the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Cathy spearheaded work in the areas of transparency and technology as a Senior Partner and the Vice President of Innovation and Open Networks. With the extended Carnegie team she launched a continuous performance improvement system to create alternative mathematics pathways for community college students. Cathy has been instrumental in supporting many young organizations and currently sits on the Startl board, the Peer-2-Peer University board and serves on the advisory committee for MIT OpenCourseWare and the University of the People. She earned her Ph.D. in the economics of education from Stanford University and a B.A. in mathematics from Boston College.

• Linda Chaput, ThinkFive.org
• Madhav Chavan, Pratham
• Barbara Chow, Hewlett Fdn
• Luc Chu, Fantasy Foundation of Culture and Arts
• Jane Cullen, Open University
• Robert Cummings, University of Mississippi
• Sir John Daniel, Commonwealth of Learning
• Susan D'Antoni, Athabasca University
• Vicki Davis, Flat Classroom Project
• John Dehlin
• Maria Diarra, Institute for Popular Education
• Ariel Diaz, Boundless Learning
• Paul Draghi, Yale University
• Chris Dubia, Qatar Foundation International
• Erik Duval, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
• Gary Elliott-Cirigottis, Open University
• Karen Fasimpaur, K12 Handhelds
• Frances Ferreira, Commonwealth of Learning
• Dean Florez Michelson
• Pete Forsyth, Wiki Strategies

  Pete Forsyth is a Wikipedia and wiki expert, and the founder of the Wiki Strategies consulting agency. With Dr. Bob Cummings (see above) he is planning the Open Education Collaborative Documentation Project, which will provide opportunities for OER experts to work together on improving Wikipedia content relevant to their work.

• Mary Lou Forward, OpenCourseWare Consortium
• Eric Frank Flat World Knowledge (open textbooks)
• Gordon Freedman, National Laboratory for Education Transformation
• Urs Gasser, Berkman Center
• Jenny Glennie, South African Institute for Distance Education
• Diana Gowen, Intel
• Cable Green, Creative Commons
• Alex Grodd, Better Lesson
• Lisa Gruwell, Wikimedia Foundation
• Suzanne Hall, U.S. Department of State/Educational & Cultural Affairs Bureau
• Gerry Hanley, California State University at Long Beach
• Ted Hanss, University of Michigan
• Alana Harrington, The Saylor Foundation
• Phyllis Hillwig, Words & Numbers
• Mark Horner, Siyavula Project Manager, Shuttleworth Foundation
• Benjamin Hubbard, University of California, Berkeley
• Kim Jones, Curriki
• Heather Joseph, SPARC
• Hannah Kahn, Hewlett Foundation
• Neeru Khosla, CK-12 Foundation
• Sarah Kirn, Gulf of Maine Research Institute
• Erin Knight, Mozilla Foundation
• Alex Kozak, Google
• Nanda Krish, Words and Numbers
• Vijay Kumar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Reg Leichty, Education Counsel
• Ronaldo Lemos, FGV Brazil
• John Lesperance, Commonwealth of Learning
• Liz Levey, Hewlett Fdn
• Douglas Levin, State Educational Technology Directors Association
• Doug Lynch, The University of Pennsylvania
• Wayne Mackintosh, OER Foundation
• Colin Maclay, Berkman Center
• Andrew Magliozzi, FinalsClub.org
• Jeff Mao, Maine Department of Education [1]
• Catharina Maracke, Keio Gijuku University
• Anne Margulies, Harvard University
• Mike Marriner, RoadtripNation.org
• Juan Carlos de Martin, NEXA Center
• Gary Matkin, University of California at Irvine
• Patrick McAndrew, Open University
• Lisa McLaughlin, ISKME
• Fred Mednick, Teachers Without Borders
• Ann-Marie Meecham, Curriki
• Steve Midgley, US Department of Education

Steve Midgley is a senior adviser to the US Department of Education. As an adviser, his principal areas of work are Race to the Top, Race to the Top Assessment and the Learning Registry. Previously Steve served as Deputy Director of Education Technology at the US Department of Education from June 2010 to January 2012. Prior to arriving at Education, he was the Director of Education at the FCC, where he headed the team which developed the Education chapter of the National Broadband Plan. Prior to government service he was the principal of Mixrun, a CTO consultancy for a number of for-profit and education sector organizations. Mixrun’s clients included California Department of Education’s project called Brokers of Expertise, which uses on-line and real world systems to share and build the expertise of educators. Steve also served as a Program Manager for the Stupski Foundation for six years, designing and implementing grants for technology in K-12 education. This work involved intensive on-the-ground implementation work with District and State agencies around country. Steve was also the founding Vice President of Engineering for LoopNet Inc., a commercial real estate listing firm. He designed and built LoopNet's technology and web systems from its inception. LoopNet remains a successful business and is currently listed on NASDAQ.

• Maggie Mitchell Salem, Qatar Foundation
• Anka Mulder, OCW Consortium Board Chair, Secretary General of Delft University of Technology
• Elizabeth Murray, MIT
• Catherine Ngugi, South African Institute for Distance Education
• Kathy Nicholson, Hewlett Fdn
• Kathleen Omollo, University of Michigan
• Cathryn Paine, FrontlineSMS
• John Palfrey, Berkman Center
• Susan Patrick, North American Council for Online Learning
• Donald Perkins, Gulf of Maine Research Institute
• Katherine Perkins, University of Colorado at Boulder
• Lisa Petrides, Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education
• Linda Pittenger, Council of Chief State School Officers
• Hal Plotkin, US Department of Education
• Nick Punt, Inigral, inc.
• Prasad Ram, EdNovo
• Justin Reich, Harvard University
• Shai Reshef, University of the People
• Steif Robbin, Luna Metrics
• Ruth Rominger, Monterey Institute for Technology and Education,

  http://NROCnetwork.org

  http://hippocampus.org

  http://nrocmath.org

• Todd Rose, CAST
• David Rose, CAST
• Larry Rosenstock, High Tech High Foundation

Larry Rosenstock is CEO and founding principal of High Tech High (www.hightechhigh.org), a network of eleven K-12 public charter schools in California, and is Dean of the High Tech High Graduate School of Education. Larry taught carpentry in urban high schools in Boston and Cambridge and was principal of the Rindge School of Technical Arts, and of the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. A member of the Massachusetts and U.S. Supreme Court Bars, he served as an attorney at the Harvard Center for Law and Education, and was a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He directed the federal New Urban High School Project, and was president of the Price Charitable Fund.

Larry and his work have been featured on Oprah, Lehrer, Newsweek, and Forbes. He is a winner of the Ford Foundation Innovations in State and Local Government Award, is an Ashoka Fellow, and won the McGraw Prize in Education.

• Carolina Rossini, Harvard University, Berkman Center and OER Brazil Project
• Philipp Schmidt, Peer 2 Peer University
• Dana Schmidt, Hewlett Fdn
• Robert Schuwer, Open University in the Netherlands
• Susan Sclafani, Pearson Education Foundation
• Jeff Seaman, Babson
• Christopher Shearer, Hewlett Fdn
• Jennifer Shoop, Saylor Foundation
• Mike Smith
• Alfred Solis, Beryl Buck Institute for Education
• Stephen Soloman, Eleven Learning
• Peter Suber, Berkman Center
• Stephan Thieringer, AcrossWorld Education
• Joel Thierstein, US Department of Education
• Candace Thille, Carnegie Mellon University
• DeLaina Tonks, Open High School of Utah
• Jutta Treviranus, Ontario College of Art & Design
• Linda Ulqini, Aga Khan Foundation USA
• Stemenka Uvalic-Trumbic, Commonwealth of Learning
• Susie Vaks DePianto, Google
• Dirk Van Damme, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
• Guustaaf Van de Mheen, Mango Tree
• Zeynep Varoglu, UNESCO
• Victor Vuchic, Hewlett Fdn
• Jason Weedon, Achieve
• David Wiley, Brigham Young University
• Esther Wojcicki, Creative Commons/Google
• Freda Wolfenden, Open University
• Jonathan Zittrain, Berkman Center
• Mary Ellen Zuppan, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population

RESOURCES

Archives from past meetings can be found on this page: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hewlettmeeting2012/archives/. Please continue to add relevant resources, links, and articles here.

LICENSE

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.