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, and Co-founder of the MIT 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
Curt Newton, Director, MIT OpenCourseWare
Chris Bourg, Director of Libraries, MIT
Deb Adair, Executive Director, Quality Matters
Diana Wu, Dean, University of California Berkeley Extension
Hal Plotkin, Senior Open Policy Fellow, Creative Commons
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
Jennryn Wetzler, Assistant Director of Open Education, Creative Commons
John Willinsky, Khosla Family Professor, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University
Loic Tallon, formerly Chief Digital Officer, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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
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) and Core Collaborations at Carnegie Mellon University
Peter B. Kaufman, Strategic Initiatives, MIT Open Learning, and Member, 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, OER Degree Initiative, Achieving the Dream
Ross Mounce, Director of Open Access Programmes, Arcadia Fund
Ryan Merkley, Chief Executive Officer, Creative Commons
Sharon Leu, Senior Policy Advisor, Higher Education Innovation, U.S. Department of Education
Willem van Valkenburg, Manager Teaching & Learning Services, TU Delft Extension School and President Open Education Consortium
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, 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, at the University of Maryland in College Park, MD, 20783.
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