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Invited Speaker
Openness and the Disaggregated
Future of Higher Education
David Wiley
Associate
Professor, Instructional Psychology and Technology, Brigham
Young University and
President of the
Board of
the Open High School of Utah, USA
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Abstract:
Open educational resources such as MIT
OpenCourseWare demonstrate that educational materials are increasingly
becoming a free, ubiquitous infrastructure for teaching and learning.
Leveraging free and open access to a wide range of high quality
educational resources can allow the faculty member to drastically change
their role in supporting learning. The increasing connectivity of
teachers and learners via email, SMS, instant messenger, Twitter, and
other tools allows us to move beyond "groups" in our thinking of
multi-person assignments to a broader, more loosely knit notion of
networks of learners. Large-scale, collaborative social networks
challenge our ideas of academic honesty but are a simple fact of life
that instructors can either fight or leverage. Open educational
resources and social networks point toward a future for higher education
in which services traditionally consolidated within a single institution
(e.g., providing content, providing learning support, providing
assessments, providing degrees) are disaggregated and provided by a
number of institutions that compete on quality of service and price for
learner business.
Biographical Information:
Dr. David Wiley is Associate Professor of
Instructional Psychology and Technology at Brigham Young University and
President of the Board of the Open High School of Utah. He was formerly
Associate Professor of Instructional Technology at Utah State University and
Director of the
Center for Open and Sustainable Learning, a Nonresident Fellow at the Center
for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, a Visiting Scholar at the
Open University of the Netherlands, and is a recipient of the US National
Science Foundation's CAREER grant. He is the founder of OpenContent, coining
the term "open content" in 1998 and releasing the first open source-style
licenses for content. His career is dedicated to increasing access to
educational opportunity for everyone around the world.
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