false 1654031 1 Given the abundance of open education initiatives that aim to make educational assets freely available online, the time seems ripe to explore the potential of open education to transform the economics and ecology of education. Despite the diversity of tools and resources already available--from well-packaged course materials to simple games, for students, self-learners, faculty, and educational institutions--we have yet to take full advantage of shared knowledge about how these are being used, what local innovations are emerging, and how to learn from and build on the experiences of others. <i>Opening Up Education</i> argues that we must develop not only the technical capability but also the intellectual capacity for transforming tacit pedagogical knowledge into commonly usable and visible knowledge: by providing incentives for faculty to use (and contribute to) open education goods, and by looking beyond institutional boundaries to connect a variety of settings and open source entrepreneurs.<br /> <br /> These essays by leaders in open education describe successes, challenges, and opportunities they have found in a range of open education initiatives. They approach--from both macro and micro perspectives--the central question of how open education tools, resources, and knowledge can improve the quality of education. The contributors (from leading foundations, academic institutions, associations, and projects) discuss the strategic underpinnings of their efforts first in terms of technology, then content, and finally knowledge. They also address the impact of their projects, and how close they come to achieving a vision of sustainable, transformative educational opportunities that amounts to much more than pervasive technology.<br /> <br /> <b>Contributors:</b><br /> Richard Baraniuk, Randy Bass, Trent Batson, Dan Bernstein, John Seely Brown, Barbara Cambridge, Tom Carey, Catherine Casserly, Bernadine Chuck Fong, Ira Fuchs, Richard Gale, Mia Garlick, Gerard Hanley, Diane Harley, Mary Huber, Pat Hutchings, Toru Iiyoshi, David Kahle, M. S. Vijay Kumar, Andy Lane, Diana Laurillard, Stuart Lee, Steve Lerman, Marilyn Lombardi, Phil Long, Clifford Lynch, Christopher Mackie, Anne Margulies, Owen McGrath, Flora McMartin, Shigeru Miyagawa, Diana Oblinger, Neeru Paharia, Cheryl Richardson, Marshall Smith, Candace Thille, Edward Walker, and David Wiley<br /> <br /> Through the support of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, an electronic version of this book is openly available under a Creative Commons license on The MIT Press website. 1648637 31 10 2007 Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge total:2|4:2| 2 8 14 1 4 0 true false Sun Mar 08 13:50:47 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 08 13:55:28 -0700 2009 http://scspaeth.blogspot.com/2009/02/tec...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Oct 25 06:40:49 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 06:40:49 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat May 30 16:58:36 -0700 2009 Sat May 30 16:58:36 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon May 11 11:32:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 11:32:00 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Apr 17 14:39:31 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 17 14:39:31 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Feb 14 05:51:39 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 05:51:39 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Feb 13 06:40:12 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 13 06:40:14 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jan 09 06:56:23 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 06:57:02 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Nov 22 13:13:38 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 13:13:38 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Tue Nov 18 22:10:23 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 18 22:10:23 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Sun Nov 16 16:52:01 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 16 16:52:07 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Sun Nov 09 23:51:25 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 09 23:51:25 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Wed Oct 22 13:58:35 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 22 13:58:35 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sun Apr 06 09:42:27 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 06 09:42:31 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1654031