Teaching & Learning Commons WebEvent


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Join the editors of Opening Up Education, Toru Iiyoshi and Vijay Kumar, and John Seely Brown, who wrote the book's foreword, to talk about future possibilities for the open education movement and how it can improve the quality of education. The conversation addresses the fact that despite the diversity of open education initiatives, tools and resources that aim to make educational assets freely available online, educators have yet to take full advantage of shared knowledge. You can hear what innovations are emerging and discuss with us what educators should do to reinvent and re-energize education.

opening up education
Foreword by
John Seely Brown
MIT Press, September 2008
Opening Up Education:
The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge


In Opening Up Education, 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 also address the impact of their projects and possible strategies for sustaining open education.

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