Open Education and the Future of University
A Strategy for Open Online Education
part of berkman@10
may 16, 2008
at the Berkman Center
questions of interest include the relationship of existing institutions to open internet education; uses of anonymity and certifiable identity in education, democracy and freedom; issues of ownership and governance of an open 3d immersive educational university environment; poker strategic thinking and its relation to a positive business plan for an open net; proposal for a pledgebank model of founding donors for initial venture funding
subtitle: Building an Immersive Future Written in Code and Law
to invite:
- rebecca nesson
- larry lessig in some form
- jef huang
- judith donath
- beth noveck
- john palfrey
- kevin wallen
- dominik kofert
- annie duke
- katie salen
- howard lederer
- juan carlos de martin
- jamie gorelick
- joichi ito
- lauren gelman
- john perry barlow
- gary loveman
- jeff pollack
- jan jones
- deval patrick
- sal demasi
- talia milgrom elcott
- john bracken
- joel klein
- harry lewis
- ken ledeen
- hal abelson
- annie valva
- marita rivero
- orlando bagwell
eon
make education the internet's best use
- what future do we imagine in an immersive 3d open virtual internet accessible and internet mediated world
see it as a teaching environment in which the authority of the stick isn't real
see it as means and opportunity to connect with young gamers and draw them on to higher education
'see it as research to identify and quantify connection between the sets of game skills and life skills
- what specs for the environment
- who will build it
- how will it govern itself
Challenge Problem: GPSTS seeks a charter from the commonwealth of massachusetts