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Life After OKI…IMS…MERLOT…….…

Life After OKI…IMS…MERLOT…….…. M. S. Vijay Kumar Assistant Provost, MIT NLII, San Diego 1/28/02. Premisses. Ed Asserts /Implies(?) and I agree! ( with some qualifications) Common Cause Value: Locally realized; Multiplicity; Pluralism The Value Chain

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Life After OKI…IMS…MERLOT…….…

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  1. Life After OKI…IMS…MERLOT…….… M. S. Vijay Kumar Assistant Provost, MIT NLII, San Diego 1/28/02 Open Knowledge Initiative

  2. Premisses Ed Asserts /Implies(?) and I agree! ( with some qualifications) • Common Cause • Value: Locally realized; Multiplicity; Pluralism • The Value Chain • Differentiated roles, capabilities, value ` • Locus of Control • Contextual Relevance • Dominant values/not to be subordinated • “ownership” OKI Open Knowledge Initiative

  3. Why OKI • Enable the development and delivery of wide range of applications • Efficiency and Effectiveness • Focus on Pedagogy not Common Infrastructure Services (CS) • CS not built for each case (leveraged) • Sharing of Resources • Interoperability ** Details in OKI Sessions** Value Asserts Open Knowledge Initiative

  4. What is OKI? • Infrastructure for Educational Application Development and Delivery • Pedagogically Driven • Collaborative • Enabling Diverse Development Activity • Educational Tools and Applications • Permit Application Sharing • Open architecture/open source • API based Value Asserts Open Knowledge Initiative

  5. Educational Ecology • “Commons of the Mind”: (Boyle) • Ecology -- free flow of ideas and practices • TEAL and Jack Wilson’s Studio Physics@RPI • Carl Berger’s Lisa • OKI • An educational services ecosystem • Sustainable • (with appropriate Locii of Control) Experiments Open Knowledge Initiative

  6. Why OKI? • Enabling and Enduring • Architecture • Business Model ( Open Source) Open Knowledge Initiative

  7. Projects that bolster theintellectual commons @ MIT • I-Lab Real Virtual laboratories (WebLabs) coupled with simulation tools, immersed in a collaborative user environment • OCWMITOpenCourseWare Course materials for all MIT courses on the Web, open the world • And other transformational practices at MIT and elsewhere Infrastructure: • Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI): Open software architecture for educational applications and learning management systems • DSpace: Web archive for MIT research papers and other publications Open Knowledge Initiative Experiments

  8. … one of my greatest concerns is that, either inadvertently or by design, universities will be so bemused by market opportunities that they will lose sight of, or downplay, their most essential purposes… -- William G. Bowen, At a Slight Angle to The Universe (Romanes Lecture, 2000) Open Knowledge Initiative

  9. MIT OpenCourseware • Question: How is the Internet going to be used in education, and what is your university going to do about it? • An answer from the MIT Faculty: Use it to provide free access to the primary materials for virtually all our courses. We are going to make our educational material available to students, faculty, and other learners, anywhere in the world, at any time, for free. Charles Vest, MIT President’s report, Fall 2001 Open Knowledge Initiative

  10. MITOpenCourseWare (OCW) • The Concept: • MIT will endeavor to put all its course content, undergraduate and graduate, into a web-based format • The OCW Website will be open and available to the world • MIT will commit to OCW as a permanent, sustainable activity Open Knowledge Initiative

  11. MIT OpenCourseware • Demonstrate a model for university dissemination of knowledge in the Internet age • Contribute to improving the quality and standard of education at all levels nationally and worldwide • Set an example for other leading educational institutions worldwide • Create a major, shared campus-wide intellectual resource • Initial two years funded by an $11M grant from the Mellon and Hewlett foundations Post OKI Open Knowledge Initiative

  12. OpenCourseWare@MIT • Alignment with MIT’s mission: OpenCourseware is fully consistent with MIT’s core values and educational mission: • Digital distribution increasingly commoditizes content, which helps sharpen our focus on the substantive values of residential education: personal attention from faculty and participation in learning and research communities. • “Giving it away” helps defuse complex intellectual property issues of ownership and control that can otherwise distract the university from its mission to disseminate knowledge. Post OKI Open Knowledge Initiative

  13. Infrastructure Educational Services Ecosysytem: Locii of Control Faculty and Academic Programs Educational Application Suite Pedagogical Tools Marketspace Components Course Mgmt Content Mgmt Assessment Etc... CommonServices .StanfordImp. AuthN AuthZ MITImp. DBMS MITImp. File NCSUImp. GUID UWisc.Imp. NCSUImp. Log Etc... Stanford Imp. Educational Institutions Open Knowledge Initiative Post OKI

  14. Sustainable Ecologyand Entropy • Services and components • Reusable and value adding • Low threshold for development, using and sharing • Appropriate locus of control • Redefining the relationship of the University Open Knowledge Initiative

  15. Deliverables • 1.0 Version of OKI Framework Spec. • Implementations of Framework APIs • Suite of Exemplar Applications • Developer Community Strategy • Sustainability Strategy Open Knowledge Initiative

  16. Infrastructure Deliverables Pedagogical Tools Application Suite LMS APIs StanfordImplementation Course Mgmt MITImplementation Content Mgmt StanfordImplementation Assessment UPennImplemenation Etc... CommonServiceAPIs AuthN .StanfordImp. AuthZ MITImp. DBMS MITImp. NCSUImp. File GUID UWisc.Imp. Log NCSUImp. Etc... Stanford Imp. Open Knowledge Initiative

  17. OKI Philosophy • Infrastructure for Educational Application Development and Support • Pedagogically Driven • Collaborative • Enabling Diverse Development Activity • Educational Tools and Applications • API based Open Knowledge Initiative

  18. MITImplementation MITImplementation MITImplementation MITImplementation MITImp. MITImp. MITImp. MIT Imp. MIT Imp. MITImp. MIT Imp. Infrastructure Deliverables • OKI Framework Specification • Framework Implementations LMS APIs Course Mgmt Content Mgmt Assessment Etc... CommonServiceAPIs AuthN AuthZ DBMS File GUID Log Etc... Open Knowledge Initiative

  19. Issues Ahead • Sustainability • Business Models • Intellectual Property Guiding Principles • Low Threshold for contribution • Low Threshold for adoption • Alignment with Original Intent Open Knowledge Initiative

  20. MITImplementation MITImplementation MITImplementation MITImplementation MITImp. MITImp. MITImp. MIT Imp. MIT Imp. MITImp. MIT Imp. Infrastructure Deliverables • OKI Framework Specification • Framework Implementations LMS APIs Course Mgmt Content Mgmt Assessment Etc... CommonServiceAPIs AuthN AuthZ DBMS File GUID Log Etc... Open Knowledge Initiative

  21. Infrastructure Deliverables • OKI Framework Specification • Framework Implementations • Local Implementations LMS APIs StanfordImplementation Course Mgmt StanfordImplementation Content Mgmt StanfordImplementation Assessment StanfordImplementation Etc... CommonServiceAPIs .StanfordImp. AuthN AuthZ StanfordImp. DBMS StanfordImp. File StanfordImp. GUID StanfordImp. Log StanfordImp. Etc... Stanford Imp. Open Knowledge Initiative

  22. Deliverables • 1.0 Version of OKI Framework Spec. • Implementations of Framework APIs • Suite of Exemplar Applications • Developer Community Strategy • Sustainability Strategy Open Knowledge Initiative

  23. OKI Processes User Experience EALP OKI Tools LMS Services Common Services Infrastructure User Experience Sustainability Pedagogical Tools OKI/LMS Services Common Services Infrastructure Architecture Open Knowledge Initiative

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