Team: Angela DeBarger, Ben Vershbow, Brianna Schofield, James Glapa-Grossklag, Philipp Schmidt, Richard Sebastian
Key Questions
- Open learning for whom?
- How do we create more equitable systems for publishing and participation in research and curriculum so that more voices and perspectives can be shared?
- How do bridge awareness gaps among higher education institutions that represent different sectors and content users/producers?
- How do we portray ourselves as part of the reform movement in higher education, so that when institutions/funders prioritize equity/teaching & learning, etc., they can point to this work in open learning? How do we describe open as a mechanism to address needs and priorities of education systems?
- Access to what? We have always assumed access to content. What about access to people, institutions, teaching practices, experiences?
- How do we develop accessible learning resources that meet the needs of every student?
Who’s here?
- Research libraries
- Elite institutions
- Organizations that lead and support key open networks
- Funders
Who’s missing?
- Learners- formal and nonformal
- Faculty
- Public libraries
- Non-elite institutions
- Middle and south US
- Global maybe - but will require a much larger working group
- Students from CSU and CCCs
- National Federation for the Blind
- National Federation of the Deaf
- Inclusive Design Research Centre
Potential Work Products and Project Ideas (define/evolve in consultation with missing participants and find out what is valuable to them)
- Open to coming up with concrete projects that reflect the issues highlighted in this working group ...
- Learning circles at community libraries to bridge the gap from nonformal to formal education
1 Comment
Anonymous
Only ~56% of the worlds population have access to the internet. Therefore i don’t think it’s sensible to actually aim or make a goal for these discussions around ‘open’ which is an inherently digital and internet connnexted concept - to literally expect every adult person in the world to benefit because not everyone will. discussions of open access to research and education and learning we are talking about the relatively more privileged people of the world. I’m okay with that . Let’s be real about this. Yay for anon edits!
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