Open Education 2011

I'm most passionate about inspiring learning, collaboration, and the pathways to a more just, equitable world. I believe that all things "open" have the potential to foment positive changes in those directions. I currently work for the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education, and have previously worked for Creative Commons, as well as Duke University and other academic institutions, and I have been (and remain in many cases) a consultant for several philanthropic foundations, national data-sharing projects, and other OER efforts.

Hi all. I am the Program Director for the Free Education Initiative at The Saylor Foundation (www.saylor.org). We're all excited for the conference and look forward to meeting you all. Please feel free to visit our site www.saylor.org-- we'll share a bit much more about our project and process at our presentation entitled "Connecting the Dots." See you in Park City!

I am the Director of Global Learning at Creative Commons.



I care about re-mixing technology, open licensing, and open policy to significantly improve access to quality, affordable, digital educational materials.... to the world.

I am the founder and coordinator of the OER-Brazil project - a project focused on awareness raising, capacity building, and advocacy for OER in Brazil. My partners and I are free culture affictionates and we believe in the power of open and cooperation to foster innovation and democratic inclusion. I was a Harvard Berkman fellow where I coordinated research on industrial cooperation models, including open business models for educational resources production.I am based in California and go to Brazil 4 or 5 times per year. I have a baby boy who is turning 1 year-old on March 15th, so we have lot… Read more

As a film student, my goal is to preserve what it was like to be a part of something. The term I always reference is "zeitgeist," the spirit of the times, and it has driven me through the various film projects I've both led and been a part of.

This is why the story of Muhammad Hasan, the subject of my documentary "Destination: SLC," is so important to me: his is a story that is specific to our zeitgeist. As a refugee from Kenya, he is faced with assimilation and family division. As a student, he is faced with language barriers and learning curves. And as a human being, he is faced with wha… Read more

Director of Education Technology in the growing Canyons School District in Sandy, UT, USA. Husband, dad, leader, teacher, learner, presenter, tech-lover, tech-hater. Sometimes gets distracte

I'm trying to use openness to make a difference in the world. I'm passionate about expanding access to education by decreasing the cost of education and increasing the effectiveness of education. I'm a member of the Instructional Psychology & Technology faculty at Brigham Young University, where I also serve as Associate Director of the Center for the Improvement of Teacher Education and Schooling (CITES).

I am the Director of the Open High School of Utah, an online public charter school committed to building OER curricula. Come and learn more at my presentation: The Impact of OER in the K12 Arena.

I am an Assistant professor of Instructional Technology at the University of Texas at Austin. My research focuses on the study of emerging technologies and pedagogies in online and hybrid education settings, and their relationship to student and instructor experiences and practices (e.g., open scholarship and digital participation).

My current interests are social pedagogy, peer production, and interface design in the context of pedagogy and assessment. Currently, I'm working on My Reviewers, a web-based resource that enables teachers and students to use rubrics and commenting tools to review and grade student writing; and Writing Commons, an Open Education Resource. My most recent book, Agency in the Age of Peer Production, a collaborative project, is in-press with NCTE as part of the Studies on Writing & Rhetoric series.

Jonathan is a professional photographer whose work hangs in the National Portrait Gallery, London and author of several internationally renowned open classes. Most recently an open Masters Postgraduate Degree hosted by Coventry University in the UK. His "radical approach to photographic education" (British Journal of Photography) was described in the European Parliament as "breaking new ground for photographers" and is featured in Creative Commons' case studies: The Power of Open.

Doctoral Student

Harvard Graduate School of Education

 

 

Elementary Educational Technology Team - Canyons School District.

I'm passionate about our new MA in Critical Literacies--an epiphany I had while walking through the San Antonio Airport on the way to a National Writing Project Conference. I'm passionate about my students--some of whom are writers, most of whom are not. I'm passionate about finding common ground with the students I teach, of finding a path that will be familiar to them and then leading them to paths they never envisioned crossing. I'm passionate about learning, about continuing to grow as a teacher so that I might continue to create a classroom environment that invites exploration, growth,… Read more