Re: Please participate in Open Education Week! (3 min video + webinar)

[Alan Webb]

Hey All,

Thanks for the invitation.  I submitted this proposal last Friday on behalf of the School of Social Innovation and the Design Thinking for Social Innovators course we're putting together with Hub DC.  Looking forward to doing this and of course welcoming ideas / feedback!

Proposed Launch Event (livecast)

Over the last year, Hub DC has been organizing Citizen Circles- a way to help professionals and students self-organize learning groups around their interests, skills, and passions- on topics like Systems Dynamics, Strengthening Personal Resilience, and Conflict Transformation.  Hub DC is now teaming up with the P2PU School of Social Innovation to run a "multi-local" course on Design Thinking for Social Innovators starting in late March, 2012.  We will be experimenting not only with new curriculum that is open source, co-designed by peers, and designed to be flexible, but also with a new course format that is global, local, and peer-led in small groups.  Over the next month, we are enlisting members of the Design Thinking Citizen Circle that formed in the Fall of 2011 in Washington DC, and members of other Hubs internationally, to co-design an open source curriculum for using a design thinking mindset and toolkit to solve problems in their communities.  The curriculum will be used by other participating groups internationally, who will be meeting physically, simultaneously, in other Hubs around the world.  This "course" will be open for other groups to join as well, wherever they can meet, who will be welcome to follow the plan we design, or else remix it for their own local context.  We are excited to announce and invite other groups to join this us in creating and running this new course through a broadcast event during Open Education Week.

We will livecast the announcement and invitation to join from DC and other participating Hubs.  We will invite potential participants in the course to ask questions and contribute their own ideas to help shape the course before it finally launches a few weeks after.

Proposed Virtual Tour (pre-recorded)

We will provide a brief virtual tour of the Citizen Circle learning format- a way to help professionals and students self-organize learning groups around their interests, skills, and passions on topics like Systems Dynamics, Strengthening Personal Resilience, and Conflict Transformation.  We will showcase specific Citizen Circles and what we have learned from our work organizing them with Hub DC and Tulane, including organizing techniques (e.g. launch parties / workshops every 3-4 months) and open resources we'd like to share with groups that wants to start on their own and join the ongoing experiment with us.

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Philipp Schmidt <phi...@p2pu.org> wrote:

Carla/Erin: Good opportunity to speak about badges to an education audience.

Chloe: I'm also adding you for "learning challenges" (we need a better title though - the future of courses online?)

Alan: Add your seminar. 

Maria: Something on your new MOOC?

Karen: School of Ed?

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From: Cable Green <ca...@creativecommons.org>
Date: 22 January 2012 00:22
Subject: Please participate in Open Education Week! (3 min video + webinar)
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Cc: Mary Lou Forward <mlfo...@ocwconsortium.org>


Greetings Friends:

I'm writing to personally ask each you to participate in Open Education Week (5-10 March 2012) in two ways.

(1) Create a 3 minute video to be rotated on the home page of the web site.

(2) Sign up to host a webinar: http://tinyurl.com/openeducationwkpax  (deadline to sign up: Jan 31, 2012)

Here are my ideas, but feel free to talk about any topic you like related to Open Education:

• Esther: target K-12 OER - why teaching kids about IP, copyright and CC licenses is so critical
  
• Wayne: OER University
  
• Shai: University of the People
• Philipp: P2PU

Chloe: Learning challenges - The future of massive online courses

Carla/Erin: An open badges infrastructure

• Cecilia: MITx
• Sir John: Growing post-secondary global demand, COL open policy, and the OER Global Congress.
• Abel - the UNESCO OER portfolio if projects: emphasize this is a global issue
• Laurie: bring the entrepreneurial perspective - how can businesses leverage OER and openness?
  
• Nicole: open textbooks are part of open education - why are open textbooks important to affordability and how does that increase access to education opportunities
• Tom: open course library - how and why is a state sharing its general education curriculum under CC BY?
  
• David: (no 3 min video - you're already on the web site ;) -- webinar on Utah Open Textbooks project... <$5 textbooks and study outcomes
  
• Reuven and Darrell - videos on your respective open bills and why they are game changers .... and a joint webinar about: how (and why) policy makers should think about open education, the arguments, the push back, and strategies for success... target is other policy makers considering open legislation
• Hal / Darcy: why the US government required a CC BY license on a $2B department of labor grant
• Rory and Fred: highlight Canada and the Netherlands open projects and UNESCO OER Chair agenda
  
• Alana: saylor.org model, partnership with OCL and textbook reward / challenge
• Heather: tie together open access and open education - education needs access to open research, open data...
• Patrick: open learn - and the end to end instructional design and IT model you've developed to create and open courses
• Carolina: Brazil and Sao Paulo leading the way with open policy
• Josh: challenges, next steps for Open Education - your open education conference (Park City) talk
• Catherine: OER Africa
• Candace: OLI - open license is not enough - must also have data ... need to have both the legal permission to change AND the data to know what to change
• Cathy: what role do Creative Commons licenses play in open education?
• Lisa Poller: what role does accessibility and UDL play in open education?
  
• Lisa Petrides: the critical role of professional development opportunities and community building
  

One more ask... please forward the text below to others who you think want to contribute to Open Education Week.

Most gratefully,

Cable

PS - Attribution to Mary Lou Forward & OCWC staff for the web site and all of the great text and links!

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Join your colleagues around the world to increase understanding about open education!  Open Education Week will take place from 5-10 March 2012 online (www.openeducationweek.org) and in locally hosted events around the world.  The objective is to raise awareness of the open education movement and open educational resources.  

There are many ways you can showcase your open education projects.  Let us know how you would like to participate by filling out the Open Education Week contributor's form by January 31, 2012: http://tinyurl.com/openeducationwkpax  Please note that you don’t have to have the final version of your contribution by that date, rather, we need to know what you are planning to do so we can schedule and allocate appropriate resources.

You may also contact conference organizers at openedu...@gmail.com

More details are on the CC Blog: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/31371

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Cable Green, PhD
Director of Global Learning

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