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Meeting: April 10-12, 2012
Hack Day: April 13, 2012
Harvard University
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.
- Hal Abelson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Nicole Allen, Student Public Interest Research Groups
- nicole@studentpirgs.org, @txtbks
- Jophus Anamuah-Mensah, Open University
- Andrew Armentano, Qatar Foundation International
- Kwasi Asare, Kwasi Asare is Executive Director of business development at Moodlerooms. He drives new business
opportunities, 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 SMFSimmons Memorial Foundation, a mentoring organization for college bound high school students and on the board of directors for the IVGIVG 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, UC Berkeley/Boalt Law School
- 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 (http://www.iste.org/store/product.aspx?ID=2285), writes a blog on all things flipped (http://flipped-learning.com), has a popular youtube channel (http://youtube.com/learning4mastery), and manages a network of over 3000 educators flipping their classes (http://flippedclass.com). 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, 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
- Katie Davis, Harvard Project Zero
website: 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, Flat Classroom Project
- 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 (@coolcatteacher). 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
- 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: cable@creativecommons.org @cgreen
- As Director of Global Learning, Cable is responsible for setting Creative Commons strategic direction and priorities to build on the global OER movement that will enable robust and vibrant practices and policies for free and open sharing of learning assets. Cable leads Creative Commons’ project to provide technical assistance to winning grantees of the US Department of Labor Trade Adjustment Assistance Community and Career Training Grant program.
- Previously, Green was the Director of eLearning and Open Education for the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, where he provided leadership on strategic technology planning, openly licensing and sharing digital content, growing and improving online and hybrid learning, and implementing enterprise learning technologies and student support services. One innovative project, 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
- 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,
- 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
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
- 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.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT DINNERS
- Food for Thought dinners are self-organized gatherings that allow conference attendees to engage in informal, themed conversation with other conference participants, and will take place on Tuesday, March 6th after the cocktail reception. Please note that attendees will pay their own dinner costs.
- If you would like to propose / organize a food for thought dinner:
- Please add the proposal in the one of the slots below, with your name and contact information
- Attendance is limited to eight people per dinner, including the organizer
- Choose a restaurant and make a reservation by 3:30pm on Wednesday, April 11th
- We'll be reserving tables at the following restaurants under the name "Berkman Center" (but you are free to choose other venues as you wish; if such is the case pls make your own reservations):
- If you would like to join one of the dinners:
- Add your name to one of the slots below by 3:30pm on Wednesday, April 11th
- If you decide not to attend a dinner to which you are signed up, please delete yourself from the list.
- For restaurants in Harvard Square, expect approximately a 10 minute walk from HLS campus. For restaurants in Porter Square, expect approximately a 15 minute walk.
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