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Meeting: April 10-12, 2012
Hack Day: April 13, 2012
Harvard University
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_…
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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
- Steve Carson, OpenCourseWare Consortium
- Carla Casilli, Mozilla Foundation
- Catherine Casserly, Creative Commons
- Linda Chaput, ThinkFive.org
- Madhav Chavan, Pratham
- Barbara Chow, Hewlett Fdn
- Luc Chu, Fantasy Foundation of Culture and Arts
- Nancy Cook, Monterey Institute for Technology and Education
- 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
- 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, UPenn
- Wayne Mackintosh, OER Foundation
- Colin Maclay, Berkman Center
- Andrew Magliozzi, FinalsClub.org
- 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
- 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
- Todd Rose, CAST
- David Rose, CAST
- Larry Rosenstock, High Tech High Foundation
- Carolina Rossini, Harvard University, Berkman Center
- 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.