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, MIT Press
Angela DeBarger, Education Program Officer, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Bharat Anand, Senior Associate Dean and faculty chair of HBX, Harvard University
Brianna Schofield, Executive Director, Authors Alliance
Curt Newton, Director, MIT OpenCourseWare
Chris Bourg, Director of Libraries, MIT
Diana Wu, Dean, University of California Berkeley Extension
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)
John Willinsky, Khosla Family Professor, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University
Katherine Maher, Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation
Loic Tallon, formerly Chief Digital Officer, Metropolitan Museum of Art
MJ Bishop, Director, Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation, University of Maryland
Nicole Allen, Director of Open Education, SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)
Peter B. Kaufman, Office of Strategic Initiatives, MIT Open Learning
Peter Suber, Director, Office for Scholarly Communication, Harvard University
Philipp Schmidt, Director of Learning Innovation, MIT Media Lab
Ross Mounce, Program Officer, Arcadia Fund
Ryan Merkley, Chief Executive Officer, Creative Commons
Timo Kos, Director, Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Education and Learning, TU Delft
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 is Tuesday May 21, 9:00-3:30 at MIT Open Learning, 600 Technology Square 2nd Floor, Cambridge MA 02139. MAP
Dinner and conversation at 6pm the night before at Catalyst Restaurant, right next door. MAP Please be sure to RSVP to Yvonne Ng.
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