Opening Up Education - The Collective Advancement Of Education Through Open Technology, Open Content, And Open Knowledge

2008·4.3 MB·English

by  Toru Iiyoshi and M. S. Vijay Kumar, eds.

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

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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