{"id":275,"date":"2011-10-27T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/open-ed-conf-keynotes-cable-green-philipp-schmidt\/"},"modified":"2011-10-27T16:37:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T16:37:00","slug":"open-ed-conf-keynotes-cable-green-philipp-schmidt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/open-ed-conf-keynotes-cable-green-philipp-schmidt\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Ed Conf. Keynotes: Cable Green & Philipp Schmidt"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Image<\/a>Image via CrunchBase<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span>The Obviousness of Open Policy<\/span><\/b>

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Speakers: <\/b>Cable Green
The Internet, increasingly affordable computing, open licensing, open access journals<\/a> and open educational resources<\/a> provide the foundation for a world in which a quality education can be a basic human right. Yet before we break the “iron triangle” of access, cost and quality with new models, we need to educate policy makers about the obviousness of open policy: public access to publicly funded resources.<\/p>\n

Speaker\/Artist(s) Info
Director of Global Learning, Creative Commons<\/a><\/p>\n

Notes:<\/b>
“If we had a food machine that could feed everyone in the world and the marginal cost is zero, and it won’t hurt farmers, should we turn it on?”<\/p>\n

His dream – everyone in the world can get the education they desire. If there are is a need to educate 263 million students – we could never build enough traditional schools to educate those who need it.<\/p>\n

If we are not sharing, we are not teaching. David Wiley<\/a><\/p>\n

There is a huge community of open source organizations.<\/p>\n

Problem: Most of the policy makers do not understand 20th cent. technology and tools (open licensing, mobile tech, the affordances of the internet). They do not understand the tools collectively – they are able to collectively create OERs.<\/p>\n

Rivalrous vs. Non- Rivalalrous resources – NR is digital and open licenses.<\/p>\n

Publicly funded resources should be available to the public who paid for them.<\/p>\n

If the world spent 5% of the GDP on edu that would equal 3 billion dollars.<\/p>\n

How do you sustain OERs? If OER is the default of our normal work, then we do not need to invest new money. The policy is simple to explain: if work is in public domain it goes to the public; if it is licensed, the license should be open.<\/p>\n

“We should get what we pay for.”
Cooperate & share = we all win
Affordability
Self Interest<\/p>\n

If we had open policies what could we do? Billions is given out to ed institutes for research but there are few requirements to share that research with an open license.<\/p>\n

English Comp – 55k enrollments x $100 text = 5.5 million dollars a year to the state of Washington. Does this make sense? The open text saves millions. The money comes from fed and state financial aide.
WA will pay 2 mil for an open textbook, spend 100,000 to update it every year and still come out ahead. And then they will openly license it and still offer it for free.<\/p>\n

Brazilians have to search for open texts before investing in commercial texts.<\/p>\n

Efficient use of public funds to increase student success and access to quality educational materials
Everything else including all existing business models are not sacred.<\/p>\n

If we had a food machine, we have a moral obligation to turn them off.<\/p>\n

“The opposite of open is not closed; the opposite of open is broken.”<\/p>\n

The Impossible Open Education Future<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Speaker:<\/b> Philipp Schmidt  (bokap.net)
Executive Director and Co-Founder, Peer 2 Peer<\/a> University<\/p>\n

He is a Shuttleworth Fellow<\/p>\n

“The Capetown Declaration twist”<\/p>\n

Started Peer-to-Peer University in 2008 – Vijay Kumar said “You are starting from the wrong point – imagine that there was no university – what would it look like?”<\/p>\n

They launched the first courses in 2009.<\/p>\n

Anyone can join, OER, light interface, badge system. Their site is a light weight connector rather than an LMS. “School of Open” is being cooked up right now.<\/p>\n

His frustration: Asking too much and expecting too little at the same time.<\/p>\n