Proceedings
OPEN Forum 2008

The OPEN Forum offered the engagement of strong, insightful plenary speakers and emphasizes significant opportunity for dialogue.

	OPEN: The Strategic Institutional Impact
Slides Video Bio	Innovation in Learning:  Aiming to Do More with Less How do we turn out students that are truly peer learners/mentors and also peer researchers/learners? How do we exploit social networks for learning and eventually how might we actually minimize classroom activities and instead leverage life on the campus as an intellectual milieu of study groups, design studios-charrettes, and of course research projects at all levels? John Seely Brown Former Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation Visiting Scholar at the University of Southern California
Slides Video Bio	Evolution and Revolution in Scholarship Higher education institutions have lost their power in the marketplace. The result is a digital ditch where institutions have limited choices and little bargaining ability. How can institutions shift market forces to better meet their needs and goals? Brad Wheeler Vice President for Information Technology and Professor of Business, Indiana University
Slides Video Bio	Opening Up Education With a broad body of evidence supporting open education, what is required to move from a pilot or project to an institutional strategy? Dr. Kumar identifies tenets for institutional planning that enable open education to enhance the educational mission and experience. M.S. Vijay Kumar Senior Associate Dean and Director, Office of Educational Innovation and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	Open Educational Resources
Slides Video Bio	Open Educational Resources As our daily experience evolves to a digital, mobile, personal and highly connected environment, the educational environment fails to keep pace. Dr. Wiley identifies open educational resources as an approach that enables the institution to achieve the necessary shift that will improve access, pedagogy and the student experience. David Wiley Associate Professor, Brigham Young University
	Open Publishing
Slides Video Bio	Open Access to Scholarly Journals Dr. King chronicles the history of commercial printing and scholarly publishing, identifying the depth of the current challenges. In detailing the challenges, he discusses one of the most pressing: the growth in the cost and demand for scholarly journals is at odds with the fundamental economies of the academy. What are the important historical and current factors that must be considered to address this complicated issue? John Leslie King, Vice Provost for Academic Information, University of Michigan
Video Bio Video Bio Slides	Open Textbooks Students experience textbooks through cost, a cost that has become an increasingly significant portion of the total cost of education. Faculty members seek greater flexibility in using textbooks as a flexible resource optimized to support pedagogy. How can open textbooks address both of these issues? Nicole Allen, Director, Make Textbooks Affordable Campaign Student Public Interest Research Groups Dev Prakash Sinha, Associate Professor, University of Oregon
Slides Video Bio	Moving Beyond Affirmative Ambivalence Since 2004 higher education institutions have indicated that open source software will play an increasingly important role in the campus IT strategy. Still, many believe that open source does not provide a viable alternative for campus enterprise applications. What will shift this community beyond affirmative ambivalence? Casey Green Founding Director, The Campus Computing Project
	Open Source Strategy
Slides Video Bio	A Framework for Managing Risk in Open Source Software Based on experience with corporate entities across all market segments that have adopted enterprise open source software, how is risk effectively managed? What are the risks that should be identified and evaluated at the point of procurement? How can legal risk be assessed and addressed by open source communities? Phil Robb Chairman, and General Manager of FOSSBazaar.org & Engineering Section Manager from Hewlett-Packard
	OPEN Participant Perspectives
	The OPEN Forum 2008 Participant Perspectives Throughout The OPEN Forum, participants shared needs, challenges, solutions and priorities. The summary of these perspectives provides both insight into the challenges and opportunities, and a compelling course of action to improve higher education. Kim Thanos Founder and Principal of Thanos Partners
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