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Opening Up Education Opening Up Education The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge Edited by Toru Iiyoshi and M. S. Vijay Kumar Foreword by John Seely Brown The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England This Creative Commons Edition is available through the generous support of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. For information about special quantity discounts, please email special_sales@ mitpress.mit.edu This book was set in Sabon by SNP Best-set Typesetter Ltd., Hong Kong. Printed and bound in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Opening up education : the collective advancement of education through open technology, open content, and open knowledge / edited by Toru Iiyoshi and M. S. Vijay Kumar. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-262-03371-8 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Distance education—Computer-assisted instruction. 2. Education, Higher—Effect of technological innovations on. 3. Educational technology. 4. Open learning. I. Iiyoshi, Toru. II. Kumar, M. S. Vijay. LC5800.O678 2008 378.1′758—dc22 2007039375 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 To our wives and sons— Hiromi, Rukmini, Ken, Suhas, and Taku —whose support and encouragement makes this important work possible. Contents Foreword: Creating a Culture of Learning xi John Seely Brown Acknowledgments xix Introduction: An Invitation to Open Up the Future of Education 1 Toru Iiyoshi and M. S. Vijay Kumar Section I: Open Educational Technology 11 1 Section Introduction: “Open Educational Technology: Tempered Aspirations” 13 Owen McGrath 2 “Designing Open Educational Technology” 27 David Kahle 3 “The Gates Are Shut: Technical and Cultural Barriers to Open Education” 47 Stuart D. Lee 4 “Does an Open Source Strategy Matter? Lessons Learned from the iLabs Project” 61 Phillip D. Long and Stephen C. Ehrmann 5 “Evaluating the Results of Open Education” 77 Edward Walker 6 “A Harvest Too Large? A Framework for Educational Abundance” 89 Trent Batson, Neeru Paharia, and M. S. Vijay Kumar viii Contents 7 “Digital Libraries, Learning Communities, and Open Education” 105 Clifford Lynch 8 “Open Source in Open Education: Promises and Challenges” 119 Christopher J. Mackie Section II: Open Educational Content 133 9 Section Introduction: “Open Educational Content: Transforming Access to Education” 135 Flora McMartin 10 “Widening Participation in Education through Open Educational Resources” 149 Andy Lane 11 “Building Open Learning as a Community-based Research Activity” 165 Candace Thille 12 “Extending the Impact of Open Educational Resources through Alignment with Pedagogical Content Knowledge and Institutional Strategy: Lessons Learned from the MERLOT Community Experience” 181 Tom Carey and Gerard L. Hanley 13 “Why Understanding the Use and Users of Open Education Matters” 197 Diane Harley 14 “OpenCourseWare: Building a Culture of Sharing” 213 Steven R. Lerman, Shigeru Miyagawa, and Anne H. Margulies 15 “Challenges and Opportunities for the Open Education Movement: A Connexions Case Study” 229 Richard G. Baraniuk 16 “2005–2012: The OpenCourseWars” 247 David Wiley
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