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Revision as of 14:36, 3 April 2012
Meeting: April 10-12, 2012
Hack Day: April 13, 2012
Harvard University
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/oer2012/
Hashtag: #oer12hf
ABOUT
Overview
Open Educational Resources (OER) are an increasingly rich source of teaching and learning materials, with rapid global growth across widely varied learning environments and contexts. The OER movement has matured from innovative upstart to an important driver in the field of education, but much work remains to be done. 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 policies – on education.
As the quantity and diversity of open resources grow and different OER models emerge, what concrete actions can be taken to advance innovative teaching and learning on a global scale? How do we engage questions and challenges around accessibility, equity, and efficacy?
The focal point of this year’s meeting is Education – the “E” in OER – with the goal of collectively developing an action-oriented roadmap for increasing OER’s impact across different educational contexts, from classrooms to informal learning settings.
Mode
OER is a dynamic field with many players. Three overlapping but analytically distinct stakeholder groups will form the central lenses of our inquiry: learners (“demand side”), facilitators (“interfaces”), and builders (“supply side”). Evidence, narratives, and the role of supporting infrastructure will be considered throughout the sessions. Presentations, moderated discussions, small group meetings, and exhibitions are organized into an opening exercise and three main segments.
The meeting will begin with an informal activity in which teams of attendees will work together to create a heat map of the current state of play of the OER ecosystem. This session will be followed by a presentation and discussion of the Hewlett Foundation’s 2012 OER strategic goals by Hewlett team members.
Starting the following day, the first segment will map the current OER landscape, utilizing a field perspective to identify trends in the production, dissemination, and use of OER resources across different educational settings. The session will provide empirically-informed deep dives into important factors that influence the production, ubiquity, and accessibility of open resources for education.
The second segment will feature a series of case studies highlighting OER practices in different learning and teaching environments. Participants will 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.
The third segment will 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. Participants will debate and explore accessibility, interoperability, enabling public policies, implementable standards, and methodologies to measure progress, reach, and sustainability.
Goals
- Deepen understanding of the OER ecosystem, with a particular focus on the factors that influence the production, ubiquity, and accessibility of open resources for education
- Identify ways to increase OER’s impact across different cultures, communities, and formal and informal settings of learning and teaching
- 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 and awareness of OER projects among grantees, identifying powerful narratives and best practices and highlighting areas of collaboration and future intervention
- Enrich a community of practice through conversation and by identifying opportunities for collaboration
- Develop an action-oriented roadmap to leverage OER’s impact on education that reflects these objectives and takes into account the field-wide goals for 2012
ATTENDEES
Please add your contact information, bio, and any relevant links to this section. To edit this wiki, you must sign up for an account: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hewlettgranteesmtg2012/?title=Special:UserLogin&type=signup.
Hal Abelson
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nicole Allen
- Student Public Interest Research Groups
- email: nicole@studentpirgs.org
- twitter: @txtbks
Jophus Anamuah-Mensah
- Open University
Andrew Armentano
- Qatar Foundation International
Kwasi Asare
- Moodlerooms
Executive Director of business development at Moodlerooms. He drives new business opportunities, strategic investments, indirect revenue, and business partnerships at Moodlerooms. Prior to joining Moodlerooms, Asare associate director of education technology at the U.S. Department of Education. He was responsible for teaching and learning technology strategy, policy, and research in the Office of Education Technology. Before his appointment at the department, Asare held leadership roles in product management, marketing, and development at IBM and Computer Associates. He also serves as senior advisor for the Simmons Memorial Foundation, a mentoring organization for college bound high school students and on the board of directors for the IVG Foundation, which serves college students. Asare holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Wake Forest University and a master’s degree in business administration from the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School. Asare was a member of the of the prestigious Broad Residency in Urban Education (Class of 2009-2011), serving his two-year Residency at the U.S. Department of Education. He and his wife Tamika reside in Washington, DC.
Lila Bailey
- Clinical Teaching Fellow, Samuelson Law Technology & Public Policy Clinic, Berkeley Law School
- Faculty Profile
- email: lbailey@law.berkeley.edu
Richard Baraniuk
- Rice University
Jonathan Bergmann
- Flipped Classroom
- jon@flippedclass.com
- twitter: @jonbergmann
Jon believes teachers should ask one question: What is best for my students? Answering this question led him to start flipping his classroom in 2006-2007 school year. He is considered one of the pioneers of the flipped class movement, wrote a book on the flipped class, writes a blog on all things flipped, has a popular youtube channel, and manages a network of over 3000 educators flipping their classes . In 2010 he was a semi-finalist for Colorado Teacher of the Year and was awarded the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Teaching in 2003. He is currently the Lead Technology Facilitator at The Joesph Sears School, in Kenilworth Illinois.
Karien Bezuidenhout
- Shuttleworth Foundation/Siyavula
Ed Bice
- Meedan-Qatar Foundation
Ahrash Bissell
Tony Bloome
- US Agency for International Development
Linda Burch
- Common Sense Media
Linda Burch Chief Education and Strategy Officer, Common Sense Media
Linda Burch is a co-founder and Chief Education and Strategy Officer of Common Sense Media, a not-for-profit dedicated to improving the lives of kids and families by providing the trustworthy information, education, and the independent voice they need to thrive in a world of media and technology. Linda leads Common Sense Media’s education efforts, new program and strategy development. She is the architect of Common Sense Media’s Digital Literacy and Citizenship program that includes an OER K-12 curriculum developed in partnership with the Harvard Graduate School of Education that is being used in over 28,000 schools in the US and 1000 schools around the globe. The Hewlett Foundation funded the initial research and development of the initial middle school curriculum.
www.commonsensemedia.org
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@mit.edu
Steve is External Relations Director for MIT OpenCourseWare. 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
Cathy Casserly
- Creative Commons
- cathy@creativecommons.org
Catherine M. Casserly is CEO of Creative Commons (CC), a global nonprofit that enables sharing and reuse of creativity and knowledge through the development of legal tools and infrastructure. With affiliates in 70 countries around the world, CC works to realize the full potential of the internet. CC licenses are currently used on more than 450 million works. Cathy’s career has been dedicated to equalizing educational opportunity and supporting the developing openness movement. As the Director of the OER Initiative at The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, she managed more than $100 million in investments to harness the efficiency and effectiveness of knowledge sharing. At the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Cathy spearheaded work in the areas of transparency and technology, including 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 boards of Startl and Peer-2-Peer University, and serves on advisory committees 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
Jennifer Childress
- Achieve
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
Sir John Daniel spent 17 years as a university president in Canada (Laurentian University) and the UK (Open University) before joining UNESCO as Assistant Director-General for Education in 2001 and serving as President of the Commonwealth of Learning from 2004-2012. He has been closely involved in the development of open and distance learning nearly 40 years. Best known among his 300+ publications are his books Mega-Universities and Knowledge Media: Technology Strategies for Higher Education and Mega-Schools, Technology and Teachers: Achieving Education for All. Knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1994 he has received 31 honorary doctorates from universities in 17 countries. He is currently directing the COL/UNESCO Hewlett-supported project 'Fostering Governmental Support for OER Internationally'
Susan D'Antoni
- Athabasca University
Katie Davis
- Harvard Project Zero
- katiedavisresearch.com
- twitter: @katiebda
Katie Davis is a Project Manager at Harvard Project Zero, where she investigates the role of digital media technologies in adolescents' academic, social, and moral lives. In addition to publishing and presenting her research in scholarly venues, Katie regularly shares her work with parents, teachers, and school administrators in an effort to build connections between educational research and practice.
Vicki Davis
Vicki Davis, full time high school teacher, is the co-founder of the Flat Classroom Projects which have connected students from kindergarten through college. Thousands of students collaborate on the wikis and projects each semester. She is co-author of Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds with Julie Lindsay in Beijing and author of the award winning Cool Cat Teacher Blog and has been named one of the most influential educators on Twitter. She also directs the Flat Classroom Conference and Live Events 501(c)3 nonprofit which brings students and teachers together throughout the world to envision the future of education in a flattened environment. Sessions have been held in Qatar (2009), Mumbai (2010,2012), Beijing (2011), and will be held in Germany (2012) and Japan (2013) in the near future.
John Dehlin
Maria Diarra
- Institute for Popular Education
Ariel Diaz
- Boundless Learning
- Twitter: @arieldiaz
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
Planning to host a Wikipedia editing event during the Hack Day, to explore opportunities to collaboratively improve Wikipedia coverage of OER and open education. Please add your name to the signup list on that page if interested!
Pete is a Wikipedia and wiki expert, and the founder of the Wiki Strategies consulting agency. With Dr. #Robert Cummings 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
Twitter: @GFREED
Urs Gasser
- Berkman Center
Jenny Glennie
- South African Institute for Distance Education
Diana Gowen
- Intel
Cable Green
- Creative Commons
- cable@creativecommons.org
- twitter: @cgreen
As Director of Global Learning, Cable sets CC's strategic direction and priorities to build on the global OER movement. Cable leads CC's project to provide technical assistance to the US Department of Labor Trade Adjustment Assistance Community and Career Training grantees. Previously, Green was the Director of eLearning and Open Education for the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, where he led the Open Course Library, creates low-cost, digital, openly licensed (CC BY) instructional materials for 81 high impact community college courses.
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
Alana Harrington
- The Saylor Foundation
Phyllis Hillwig
- Words & Numbers
Erik Hofer
- University of Michigan Medical School, Medical School Information Services, Learning Program Director
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/enablingtech/home http://open.umich.edu
Erik Hofer is the Director of the Office of Enabling Technologies and Learning Program Director for the Medical School Information Services. Erik has spent nearly thirteen years at the University of Michigan building an applied research and innovation program focused on better understanding and supporting scientific work, including research, teaching, service and learning. Erik is also an adjunct lecturer at the University of Michigan, School of Information, where he teaches a course on personal informatics.
Mark Horner
- Siyavula Project Manager, Shuttleworth Foundation
Benjamin Hubbard
- University of California, Berkeley
Sally Johnstone
- Western Governors University
- sjohnstone@wgu.edu
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
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
- University of Pennsylvania
Wayne Mackintosh
- OER university / WikiEducator
Colin Maclay
- Berkman Center
Andrew Magliozzi
- FinalsClub.org
Andrew Magliozzi is the founder of FinalsClub.org and Veritas Tutors LLC, an elite tutoring company in Cambridge "our fair city," MA. Andrew is also on the board of directors of Cambridge School Volunteers, a local non-profit volunteer tutoring organization providing in excess of 45,000 hours of pro-bono tutoring in the Cambridge Public School system. The mission of FinalsClub.org is to use technology to create a more open and collaborative educational experience for curious minds within and without the classroom. To that end, the FinalsClub Foundation has also launched two additional minimum viable products in the last nine months: LectureLeaks.org and KarmaNotes.org. Stay tuned for more!
Jeff Mao
- Maine Department of Education
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
- Director of Open Knowledge Networks at Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME)
- Manager at OER Commons
- Tweets at OERCommons and lmclaug
Fred Mednick
- Founder, Teachers Without Borders
Founded Teachers Without Borders in 2000 in order to connect teachers to information and each other, so that they can best serve as key catalysts for change in their communities. Today, Teachers Without Borders is endorsed by governments worldwide and has a membership in 184 countries. Prior to founding Teachers Without Borders, Fred served as the head of two leading K-12 schools. He has received degrees from the University of California, Claremont Graduate School, and received his doctorate from Seattle University.
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)
- Delft University of Technology (SECGEN)
Anka Mulder joined the OCW Consortium Board for years ago and has been President of the Board since 2011. She is Secretary General and Director of Education of Delft University of Technology.
Elizabeth Murray
- MIT
Elizabeth Murray is Project Manager of MIT BLOSSOMS, a K-12 STEM initiative that creates video lessons for middle and high school teachers of math, biology, chemistry, physics and engineering. MIT BLOSSOMS works with teachers throughout the U.S., but is also an international initiative with partners in Jordan, Pakistan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Brazil. The goal of BLOSSOMS is to excite students about the study of STEM subjects and to encourage the development of critical and creative thinking skills.
Catherine Ngugi
- South African Institute for Distance Education
Kathy Nicholson
- Hewlett Fdn
Kathleen Ludewig Omollo
- University of Michigan Medical School, Office of Enabling of Technologies, International Program Manager
Kathleen Ludewig Omollo has six years professional experience in information technology, intellectual property, and policy with private, public, and non-profit organizations. She has been engaged with OER activities at University of Michigan (U-M) since 2008, including training student volunteers, staff, and faculty, on how to licence, produce, and distribute OER. As the U-M project manager for the African Health OER Network, Kathleen supports health professionals who wish to share instructional materials by teaching them how to do that legally and efficiently. Kathleen completed a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies and French at Hope College. She also holds a Master of Information and a Master of Public Policy from University of Michigan.
Cathryn Paine
- FrontlineSMS
John Palfrey
- Berkman Center
Susan Patrick
- International Association for K-12 Online Learning
Donald Perkins
- Gulf of Maine Research Institute
Katherine Perkins
- University of Colorado at Boulder
Lisa Petrides
- ISKME, or Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education
- OER Commons
- Tweeting at @lpetrides
- Blogging at Lisa is Learning
Lisa Petrides is president and founder of ISKME, an independent, nonprofit research institute based in Half Moon Bay, CA. Dedicated to improving the practice of continuous learning, collaboration, and change in the education sector, ISKME conducts social science research, develops research-based innovations, and builds capacity to improve information access and knowledge sharing. This includes the creation of OER Commons, a teaching and learning network that supports and facilitates the creation and sharing of open educational resources as well as Big Ideas Fest, a dynamic, action-oriented convening focused on education innovation.
Linda Pittenger
- Council of Chief State School Officers
Hal Plotkin
- US Department of Education
Nick Punt
- VP Products at Inigral, inc. - Facebook apps for colleges
- Co-founder at EdSurge - Edtech news & information resource
- Twitter @nickpunt
- Contact: myname @ gmail
Prasad Ram
Prasad Ram (pram) is the Founder, CEO of Gooru, a 501c3 non-profit education technology company that is based on a prototype he developed at Google. Gooru (www.goorulearning.org) is a search engine for learning. Teachers and students can find collections of rich web resources and quizzes on any grades 5-12 Math and Science topics. Previously, Dr. Ram was the Director of Research at Google, Head of Google India R&D and CTO at Yahoo! India R&D building many key technologies in Search, Ads and consumer products such as Google Maps, News and Finance. Dr. Ram started his career as a research scientist at Xerox Research. Dr. Ram has a Masters and Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA and a B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
Justin Reich
- Harvard University
Shai Reshef
- University of the People
Steif Robbin
- Luna Metrics
Ruth Rominger
- Monterey Institute for Technology and Education,
Todd Rose
- CAST
David Rose
- CAST
Larry Rosenstock
- High Tech High Foundation
Larry Rosenstock is CEO and founding principal of [www.hightechhigh.org High Tech High] , 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
- OER Brazil Project
Philipp Schmidt
(Jan) Philipp Schmidt is executive director and co-founder of Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU). He is an open education activist, innovator, and social entrepreneur. Philipp is a board member of the OpenCourseWare Consortium and a Shuttleworth and Ashoka fellow. He is mostly based in Cape Town.
Dana Schmidt
- Hewlett Fdn
Robert Schuwer
- Open University in the Netherlands
Robert Schuwer (1955) received an MSc in Mathematics at the Catholic University of Nijmegen (1980) and an MSc Computer Science at the Eindhoven University of Technology (1989). On the latter university he did his PhD in 1993 on a thesis about knowledge base systems. Robert’s working experience includes teaching mathematics in secondary education, consultancy for ICT related issues, assistant professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology (department Management Science) and CTO in a software company.
Currently, he is associate professor at the Open Universiteit Nederland (OUNL). Since 2006 the majority of his work is about OER. He was appointed project leader for the OpenER-project at the OUNL in 2006, which was the first OER project in The Netherlands. Currently, he is involved as projectleader in the Wikiwijs program, aiming at creating a national infrastructure for OER, initiated by the Dutch Ministry of Education.
Susan Sclafani
- Pearson Education Foundation
Dr. Sclafani joined the Pearson Foundation as Vice President for Programs in January 2011 to manage the development of a digital system of courses for K-12 English language arts and content literacy and K-11 mathematics aligned to the Common Core State Standards. The project will employ a variety of technologies and instructional practices to meet students where they are and engage and prepare them to reach or exceed grade level proficiency. Prior to that she served as Director of State Services for the National Center on Education and the Economy, working with states committed to the Tough Choices or Tough Times report recommendations. As Assistant Secretary of Education for Vocational and Adult Education and Counselor to the Secretary of Education from 2001-2005, Dr. Sclafani was the US education representative to OECD and APEC and created the Mathematics and Science Initiative, the High School Redesign Initiative and the E-Language Learning Project with the Chinese Ministry of Education. Dr. Sclafani had served as Chief of Staff for Education Services in the Houston Independent School District. In past roles in the district, she taught mathematics, led a magnet high school for engineering professions, and played key roles in technology, curriculum development, and construction management departments.
Jeff Seaman
- Babson Survey Research Group
Dr. Jeff Seaman is co-director of the Babson Survey Research Group, which conducts regional, national, and international research projects, including survey design, sampling methodology, data integrity, statistical analyses, and reporting. He has worked in education information technology for over 20 years. In addition to teaching at Cornell University, the University of Wisconsin, and the Wharton School, Seaman has created and headed information technology organizations for the University of Pennsylvania and Lesley University. The client list for his consulting includes Harvard, Tufts, Boston University, Brandeis, and the University of Pennsylvania as well as such technology vendors as IBM and Microsoft. He has served on advisory boards for many technology companies, including Apple, IBM, and Microsoft.
Christopher Shearer
- Hewlett Fdn
Jennifer Shoop
- Saylor Foundation
Marshall (Mike) S. Smith
- Qatar Foundation International
Alfred Solis
- Beryl Buck Institute for Education
Stephen Soloman
- Eleven Learning
Peter Suber
- Berkman Center
- Harvard Open Access Project
- email and blog
Stephan Thieringer
- AcrossWorld Education
Joel Thierstein
- US Department of Education
Candace Thille
- Carnegie Mellon University
Candace Thille is the Director of the Open Learning Initiative (OLI) at Carnegie Mellon University, a position she has held since the program’s inception in 2002. She collaborates with the Open University on OLnet and with Creative Commons, WA SBCTC and CAST on the OPEN project to provide technical assistance to the US Department of Labor Trade Adjustment Assistance Community and Career Training grantees. Candace’s focus of research and development is in applying results from the learning sciences to the design, implementation and evaluation of open web-based learning environments. Candace serves as a redesign scholar for the National Center for Academic Transformation; as a Fellow of International Society for Design and Development in Education; on the technical advisory committee for the AAU STEM initiative; and on the Global Executive Advisory board for Hewlett Packard’s Catalyst Initiative. She has served on the working group at the U.S. Department of Education to co-author the National Education Technology Plan and on a working group of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) to write a report for the Obama Administration on improving STEM Higher education. cthille@cmu.edu
DeLaina Tonks
- Open High School of Utah
Jutta Treviranus
- Inclusive Design Research Centre, OCAD University
FLOE Project http://floeproject.org
Jutta Treviranus leads the FLOE Project (Flexible Learning for Open Education), FLOE provides the tools and infrastructure to help deliver OER that match the diverse individual needs of learners (http://floeproject.org). Jutta is the director of both the Inclusive Design Research Centre and the Inclusive Design Institute and a professor in the Faculty of Design at OCAD University in Toronto (http://idrc.ocadu.ca) . Jutta and her team lead many global open source communities and research networks that support the inclusive design of emerging information and communication systems and practices.
Linda Ulqini
- Aga Khan Foundation USA
Stamenka Uvalic-Trumbic
- Commonwealth of Learning
Stamenka Uvalic-Trumbic (suvalictrumbic@gmail.com) is an independent consultant in global higher education, based in Paris, and Senior Consultant to COL for the project Fostering Governmental support to OER Internationally. She spent 20 years at UNESCO in higher education working on a variety of projects, ranging from quality assurance and accreditation, recognition of qualifications, new providers of higher education. She was also Executive Secretary of the 2009 World Conference on Higher Education. Prior to her work in UNESCO, she was Secretary-General of the Association of Universities of former Yugoslavia.
Susie Vaks DePianto
- Google, Research
- Susie Vaks DePianto is a Senior Manager at Google where she leads strategic initiatives in educational Research & Development. Her work focuses on building and supporting internal and external research, programs, and products aimed at innovating and scaling open educational technologies. Susie has been with Google for 12 years and has worked across multiple departments and special projects. Her past efforts include managing advertising operations globally, leading a national learning & development team, and managing multiple engineering products and education efforts. Prior to Google, Susie graduated cum laude from the University of California Los Angeles. Susie and her husband reside in San Francisco, California.
Dirk Van Damme
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Guustaaf Van de Mheen
- Mango Tree
Zeynep Varoglu
- UNESCO
Victor Vuchic
- Hewlett Fdn
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.
- Please add links to papers, articles, blogposts, and other items related to OER and of interest to symposium participants to this page. Users need to create an account to edit this wiki -- click on the link in the top right corner of this page to obtain a username/password.
- Campobello, Heather. Google Plus Promotes Open Educational Resources: Helps Students, Teachers, and Schools Gain Access to Educational Resources WebPro News, March 5, 2012.
- Christie, Anne. [Student Strategies for Coping with Textbook Costs and the Role of Library Course Reserves] Libraries and the Academy, October 2009. File:9.4.christiejpg
- Czerniewicz, Laura. Open Up and Say "Access for Everyone" Mail and Guardian, March 2, 2012.
- International Initiatives Fuel Growth of Open Ed. Content;Initiatives in countries from South Africa to Vietnam are fueling the growth of open educational resources Educational Week, February 1, 2012.
- Mulder, Anka. Welcome Online Courses: Online Learning is a Boon for Europe's Economy, and Not a Threat to Higher Education European Voices, March 12, 2012.
- Reich, Justin. Open Educational Resources Expand Educational Inequalities Educational Technology Debate, December 2011.
- Watters, Audrey. MITx: The Next Chapter for University Credentialing? Inside Higher Ed, December 19, 2011.
HACK DAY
The Hack Day will bring together local leaders, hackers, and thinkers, along with those working on open education projects. Hack day participants will select a project to work on that seeks to increase the positive impact of open education resources on education, broadly put. Self-organizing teams will aim to rapidly develop a working idea for a project, service, model, program, website or tool into a mockup or prototype by the end of the day, coupled with a creative pitch that includes clear ideas for implementation, funding, workflow, and future development. Participants will include conference attendees and other guests from within and without the Berkman community.
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