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James Glapa-Grossklag

Design with the learner in mind and focus on the learner’s goals. Get students involved in outreach, workflow, creation. Just as student governments today hold events to raise awareness of mental health or voter registration, so too should Open be a part of their messaging. Further, students from non-elite institutions should join our conversations. (I can bring the student OER advocates I work with in California.)

Mainstream Open education into other reform movements in education. Sure, we talk about bringing together open data and open science and open access publishing. But that’s not where the action is in public higher education. The action is in reducing equity gaps and developing guided pathways in order to increase completion with credentials. At every conversation about diversity and equity and inclusion, in every HR office, and every training on diversity and equity and inclusion, Open should be an example of how we can enact this. 

 Additionally, the guided pathways reform movement in community colleges, which create more focused student experiences to increase completion with credentials. An essential part of this should be zero textbook cost or z-degrees, built around OER, so that students never need to touch commercial products.

 An overarching goal is to make Open disappear - fulfill the promise of education for everyone everywhere, just like secondary education in the US. We don’t debate whether or not students should pay for athletic equipment, wifi, libraries, etc. These are seen as fundamental elements of education, and so too should access to openly licensed artifacts of knowledge and OERs.


Jeff

 vision might include 1)  OA is no longer marginal or hard to explain or seen as oppositional; more funders support OA  2) that public institutions cease to spend so much on “closed” materials  3) that reputations are based more on contributions to the open world; that that journal boards opt for open  4) that universities put more effort towards building and supporting open tools and data, not just texts 5) that the public interest is represented in Washington as vigorously as that of the copyright industries  6) that new mechanisms for supporting creators and creative institutions evolve to a level of maturity and use sufficient to support creation outside traditional publishing 7) the offices of general counsels in libraries and elsewhere cease to fear unlikely lawsuits 8) new mechanisms to enhance information quality (eg reputation systems, pre- and post-publication review, debate and comment systems, provenance, opt-in filtering at the endpoints rather than via central points of control etc) receive more attention and evolve more quickly

Philipp

I think open is in a crisis. I say this as someone who has spent the last (almost) two decades promoting open practices, content, software, and education. And as someone who agrees that every crisis is a great opportunity (wink). Some themes for discussion ... which may suggest possible new directions for what open might look like in the future. 

From publication to participation - The open world is still very tied to traditional models of publishing. At the same time we are losing out to new platforms that feature user-generated content. How can we get more people (students, non-formal learners, anyone) involved in making open learning a two-way street. Open has to be more than access to stay relevant. 

From text to mobile + video - Today's users are mobile 1st (and often mobile only) and video is the dominant medium not just to access content, but to communicate with others. Yet most of the open education world is still fully browser based. And video often means a recording a lecture from the back of the room. We're falling behind on content design as well as technology. 

From the old to the new reality - YouTube is the largest education platform in the world, even though by most of the classic definitions it is not "open". What does that mean for open? Copyright reform has been slow and largely unsuccessful. Do we need a new approach to frameworks like licenses and legal rights? Or is holding on to them even more crucial at this point? 

From access to equity - I think this one is self-explanatory. 

 

Ross Mounce, Arcadia Fund

One of my top priorities for the future of open is to reform copyright to enable equality of access and usage rights across jurisdictions. People should not need to be lawyers to understand what they can and cannot do. They should be able to always rely on the exception that grants them minimum rights to use content to do research, teaching, or learning. Those minimum rights should never be replaced by licenses or overridden by contracts.

 

Curt Newton, MIT OpenCourseWare

The world's hunger for knowledge is boundless, so I want that knowledge from a wide range of sources and voices to be easily discoverable and freely available, wherever people are, on the channels they use and in the forms they need: from a bite-sized short introduction for self-paced learning, to latest research articulated for a broader audience (a la The Conversation), to a complete multi-week or multi-step course, to guided sequences with optional credential.