THE OPEN 2030 WORKING GROUP (NEW NAME) WILL RESUME IN-PERSON MEETINGS IN THE FALL OF 2022.
PROVISIONAL NEW MISSION STATEMENT (05/28/21):
<< The Open 2030 Working Group, comprised of thought leaders and educational innovators and funders, focuses on building educational equity and social justice through Open Educational Resources (OER). While we celebrate 20 years of free access to knowledge through OER content production and OER use, educators grapple with growing disinformation and social division as well as the lasting legacies of racism and systemic oppression. What communities and cultural practices around OER can we develop and strengthen in order to achieve justice and equity goals? How can we create deeper connections and collaboration between OER communities of practice and justice and equity movements? >>
Members, 2018-2021:
Deb Adair, Executive Director, Quality Matters
Nicole Allen, Director of Open Education, SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)
Norman Bier, Director of the Open Learning Initiative (OLI) & Executive Director, Simon Initiative, Carnegie Mellon University
MJ Bishop, Associate Vice Chancellor and Director, William E. Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation, University System of Maryland
Chris Bourg, Director of Libraries, MIT
Amy Brand, Director of The MIT Press, Founder of MIT Open Publishing Services, and Co-founder of the Knowledge Futures Group
Cathy Casserly, Advisor, strategist, leadership coach
Angela DeBarger, Education Program Officer, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Ryan Erickson-Kulas, Program Officer, Michelson 20MM Foundation
James Glapa-Grossklag, Dean, Educational Technology, Learning Resources, and Distance Learning at College of the Canyons (California, USA)
Mark Graham, Director of the Wayback Machine, Internet Archive
Cable Green, Director of Open Education, Creative Commons
D. Fox Harrell, Professor of Digital Media and Artificial Intelligence and Director, Center for Advanced Virtuality, MIT
Peter B. Kaufman, Strategic Initiatives, MIT Open Learning (co-chair)
SJ Klein, Knowledge Futures Group, MIT
Sharon Leu, Senior Policy Advisor, Higher Education Innovation, U.S. Department of Education
Jami Mathewson, Director of Partnerships, Wiki Education
Mark McBride, Library Senior Strategist, SUNY System Administration
Ryan Merkley, Chief of Staff, Wikimedia FoundationManaging Director, Aspen Digital
Ross Mounce, Director of Open Access Programmes, Arcadia Fund
Curt Newton, Director, MIT OpenCourseWare (co-chair)
Lisa Petrides, CEO, Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME)
Hal Plotkin, Consultant, College Promise Campaign
Nichole Saad, Senior Program Officer, Education, Wikimedia Foundation
Philipp Schmidt, Director of Learning Innovation, MIT Media Lab
Richard Sebastian, Director, Open and Digital Learning, Achieving the Dream
Brianna Schofield, Executive Director, Authors Alliance
Peter Suber, Director, Office for Scholarly Communication, Harvard University
Loic Tallon, formerly Chief Digital Officer, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jeff Ubois, Vice President, Lever for Change | MacArthur Foundation
Willem van Valkenburg, Executive Director, TU Delft Extension School and President Open Education Global
Ben Vershbow, Director, Community Programs, Wikimedia Foundation
John Willinsky, Khosla Family Professor, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University
Logistics contact: Yvonne Ng, Annual Giving and Donor Relations Officer, MIT Open Learning
Collective Vision Statements:
Read the inspirational vision statements of our members.
Announcements:
The Working Group is co-sponsored by MIT Open Learning and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
The fourth meeting of the Open 2020 Working was to be held virtually in the Fall of 2020.
The third meeting of the Open 2020 Working Group was held Wednesday, February 12, and Thursday, February 13, 2020, at the Hewlett Foundation in Palo Alto, CA, 94025.
The second meeting of the Open 2020 Working Group was held Monday, September 30, and Tuesday, October 1, 2019, at the University of Maryland in College Park, MD, 20783.
The first meeting of the Open 2020 Working Group was held Tuesday, May 21, 2019, at MIT Open Learning, 600 Technology Square, 2nd Floor, Cambridge MA 02139. MAP
Previous (2018-2020) Mission Statement:
The Open 2020 Working Group, comprised of thought leaders and educational innovators and funders, plans to work over the next year to envision a set of new, ambitious, and practical recommendations for the future of open learning. As the teaching and learning landscape continues to evolve, we will identify opportunities for open learning resources and new open technologies to further support and enhance an accessible knowledge ecosystem. We aim to:
- assess the landscape of emerging trends in education and industry;
- suggest innovative and practical approaches to enhance open learning and access;
- help shape the forward-looking vision for open learning in evolving educational and technological landscapes; and
- create a public set of think pieces and recommendations for the future of open.