TechTalks Event
MIT's Open Courseware Initiative (OCW) & Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI)
with guest experts Vijay Kumar and Phil Long of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
March 7, 2002
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Since its inception, OCW has been misunderstood. The academic world has seen one or another online degree program or commercial venture stake a claim to its part of cyberspace. OCW is not about online degree programs. It isn�t even about online courses for which students can audit or enroll. That�s what it isn�t. What, then, is it? And, then we get to "What is OKI?" MIT's Open Knowledge Initiative can also be misunderstood. Those who were tuned in on March 7 got the straight scoop on both initiatives!
One listener emailed in: "Do you really have to stop at 5pm? Let's keep going for a few more hours! Great show."
Guest Experts
M.S.
Vijay Kumar is the Assistant Provost and Director of Academic
Computing at MIT. Through these roles he influences the Institute's
strategic focus on educational technology and promote the effective
integration of information technology in MIT education.
As the Director of Information Systems' Academic Computing Practice and a member of its leadership team Vijay coordinates academic computing activities and services for supporting the use of information technology in MIT's educational programs. In addition, he serves as Co-Director of the Educational Media Creation Center (EMCC ), as a member of the Council on Educational Technology (MITCET), as a member of the steering committee of the MIT-Microsoft Alliance's Project I-Campu, and as a member of MIT's Information Technology Architecture Group (ITAG). He is also the primary contact for MIT's Internet2/UCAID Application efforts.
Phillip
D. Long is a Senior Strategist for the Academic Computing Practice
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He co-directs the
Academic Computing Support Team, and provides leadership in applying
MIT Information System resources to support the integration of technology
in to the curriculum. Phil serves on the I-Campus project team working
to develop new technologies for teaching in partnership with Microsoft
Research, and the Stellar project to develop an Open Knowledge Framework
for reusable object components suitable for online instruction and
other research and community collaborations.
His professional activities include acting as the 2001 Syllabus Conference Board Chairperson, and contributing a regular column on Technology Trends to Syllabus Magazine. Phil is also a Senior Associate with the TLT Group, responsible for the Student Technology Assistant Program.
Co-Hosts
Howard Strauss (above, left), Manager of Academic Applications
at Princeton University, is TechTalk's Technology Anchor.
Judith Boettcher is CREN's Executive Director.
Together, Judith and Howard will ask the really tough questions—and relay the questions you email to them at expert@cren.net.
Background & Resources
Here is the home page for MIT's Open Knowledge Initiative.
And, here is the home page for MIT's Open Courseware Initiative. Especially useful on this site is a small glossary of terms.
Each of the above contains numerous useful links to additional resources.
The Technology Source is always a good place to look for IT/higher ed info. There's an interview with Phil (by Steve Gilbert) in the current issue: Open Knowledge and Open Source Initiatives: An Interview with MIT's Phil Long .
Here are a couple of late-arriving items from Phil:
- EDUCAUSE article on OKI: Open Frameworks for Education
- President Vest's (MIT) Annual Report, Academic Year 2000-01: Disturbing the Educational Universe: Universities in the Digital Age � Dinosaurs or Prometheans?
- The Java in Administration Special Interest Group (JA-SIG) is an independent organization designed to increase the flow of information between educational institutions and companies involved in the development of administrative applications using Java technology.
- Advanced Distributed Learning, an initiative sponsored by the United States Department of Defense designed to accelerate large-scale development of dynamic and cost-effective learning software. You can learn more, there, about SCORM (the Sharable Content Object Reference Model).
- IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. - IMS is developing and promoting open specifications for facilitating online distributed learning activities such as locating and using educational content, tracking learner progress, reporting learner performance, and exchanging student records between administrative systems.
- AMPS: Academic Media Production Services - The MIT multimedia and web production studio responsible for the design, development, and deployment of educational enhancement for courses delivered on-campus and/or by distance learning to MIT students.
- Applying Open Source Principles, Practices, and Tools to Teaching, Learning, Professional Development, and Planning.
- Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
- Hutchings, P. Approaching the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
- Ishii, K., and B. Lutterbeck. Unexploited Resources of Online Education for Democracy: Why the Future Should Belong to OpenCourseWare.
- Miyagawa, S. MIT OpenCourseWare: Faculty Views.
- Overview: The TRIPS Agreement.
- Shulman, L. Inventing the Future.� Conclusion to Opening Lines: Approaches to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
