Opening Up Education:
The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge
Edited by Toru Iiyoshi and M.S. Vijay Kumar
Foreword by John Seely Brown
Despite the diversity of open education initiatives, tools and resources that aim to make educational assets freely available online—from well-packaged course materials to simple games—educators 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.
In response, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and The MIT Press have published Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge, edited by Carnegie’s Toru Iiyoshi and MIT’s M.S. Vijay Kumar.
The authors—comprised of faculty, researchers, administrators, academic technology experts, foundation program officers and scholars, and directors of major open education projects—examine what challenges need to be addressed, what potential synergies can be realized, and what opportunities should be seized for a better future for education. Based on this collective agenda, the editors found that in order to “open up” education in ways that can dramatically advance learning and teaching, educators and administrators need to:
- Investigate the transformative potential and ecological transitions of open education
- Change education’s culture and policy
- Make open education solutions sustainable
- Make practice and knowledge visible and shareable
- Build the teaching and learning commons through the collectivity culture
Carnegie and MIT Press are making the book available for free download from The MIT Press Web site under a Creative Commons use license and also for sale in hard copy.
PDF download available at: http://mitpress.mit.edu/opening_up_education/
For a review copy, please contact David Weininger at The MIT Press: 617-253-2079 / dgw@mit.edu