Imagination & Equity
A group of students learning
14th Century
Roz Picard
Creative Learning Projects Passion Peers Play
Open as a way to imagine more equitable higher education
Open = Participation
Barriers to participation legal - licenses technical - connectivity socio-cultural - biases financial - real cost
Open institutions
Free ≠ Real Access Online courses don’t teach life success skills Social support is missing
The solution is not (just) a new technology, but an old idea.
Peer 2 Peer Learning Success Open Content & Courses Real People in Real Places
2015 Chicago Public Library 2016 10 US library systems 2 international pilots 2017 25 library systems (100+ libraries) 3 countries http://p2pu.org
Courses disappearing Paywalls rising Remix/reuse often not allowed
Open communities
Anything you can learn by sitting in a room and listening to someone speak, you can learn better on YouTube.
6000+ videos 3 Million subscribers 1 Billion views Last two weeks: 25,000 new subscribers 29 Million views
200 surgeons 64% learned on YouTube
Open credentials
If it can be graded by a computer today, it can be done by a computer tomorrow.
Academic Credentials Largely paper based (or paper inspired) Users are not in control of their achievement record It is too easy to cheat Lack of data
Issuer Recipient (Student) Certificate SHA ………………..………………..………………..………………..………………..
Digital Credentials + Blockchain Users are in control of their achievement record and data Decentralized verification and trust Data-driven public (and private) policy on skills and education Governed openly by a community of higher education institutions Early days > Time to experiment!
A new public university
Stanford accepts 5% Cal State fails 83%
US public education is failing at the top and the bottom
MOOCs = Market-driven Occasional Online Courses
Opportunity for a European approach
Imagining equitable higher education through the lens of open open institutions open communities open credentials building on the great tradition of European public education.
Philipp Schmidt Director of Learning Innovation MIT Media Lab philipp@media.mit.edu @schmidtphi
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