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.
Membership
Amy Brand, Director of The MIT Press, Founder of MIT Open Publishing Services, and Co-founder of the Knowledge Futures Group
Angela DeBarger, Education Program Officer, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Ben Vershbow, Director, Community Programs, Wikimedia Foundation
Bharat Anand, Senior Associate Dean and faculty chair of HBX, Harvard University
Brianna Schofield, Executive Director, Authors Alliance
Cathy Casserly, Advisor, strategist, leadership coach
Chris Bourg, Director of Libraries, MIT
Curt Newton, Director, MIT OpenCourseWare
Deb Adair, Executive Director, Quality Matters
Diana Wu, Dean, University of California Berkeley Extension
Hal Plotkin, Consultant, College Promise Campaign
Hunt Lambert, Dean, Division of Continuing Education and University Extension at Harvard University
James Glapa-Grossklag, Dean, Educational Technology, Learning Resources, and Distance Learning at College of the Canyons (California, USA)
Jeff Ubois, Vice President, Lever for Change | MacArthur Foundation
John Willinsky, Khosla Family Professor, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University
Lisa Petrides, CEO, Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME)
Loic Tallon, formerly Chief Digital Officer, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Mark Graham, Director of the Wayback Machine, Internet Archive
Mark McBride, Library Senior Strategist, SUNY System Administration
MJ Bishop, Associate Vice Chancellor and Director, William E. Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation, University System of Maryland
Cable Green, Interim Chief Executive Officer and Director of Open Education, Creative Commons
Nichole Saad, Senior Program Officer, Education, Wikimedia Foundation
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
Peter B. Kaufman, Strategic Initiatives, MIT Open Learning, and Resource Strategy, MIT Knowledge Futures Group
Peter Suber, Director, Office for Scholarly Communication, Harvard University
Philipp Schmidt, Director of Learning Innovation, MIT Media Lab
Richard Sebastian, Director, Open and Digital Learning, Achieving the Dream
Ross Mounce, Director of Open Access Programmes, Arcadia Fund
Ryan Erickson-Kulas, Program Officer, Michelson 20MM Foundation
Ryan Merkley, Chief of Staff, Wikimedia Foundation
Sharon Leu, Senior Policy Advisor, Higher Education Innovation, U.S. Department of Education
SJ Klein, Knowledge Futures Group, MIT
Willem van Valkenburg, Executive Director, TU Delft Extension School and President Open Education Global
Logistics contact: Yvonne Ng, Annual Giving and Donor Relations Officer, MIT Open Learning
The Open 2020 Working Group is co-sponsored by MIT Open Learning and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
Announcements
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
The second meeting of the Open 2020 Working Group will be held Monday, September 30, and Tuesday, October 1, 2019, at the University of Maryland in College Park, MD, 20783.
The third meeting of the Open 2020 Working Group will be held Wednesday, February 12, and Thursday, February 13, 2020, at the Hewlett Foundation in Palo Alto, CA, 94025.
Collective Vision Statements
Read the inspirational vision statements of our members.