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

Open Knowledge Initiative 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 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 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 Educational Ecology “Commons of the Mind”: (Boyle)Commons Ecology -- free flow of ideas and practices »TEAL and Jack Wilson’s Studio »Carl Berger’s Lisa »OKIOKI –An educational services ecosystemecosystem Sustainable (with appropriate Locii of Control) Experiments

Open Knowledge Initiative Why OKI? Enabling and Enduring –Architecture –Business Model ( Open Source)

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

Open Knowledge Initiative … 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 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 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 MIT O pen C ourse W are (OCW)

Open Knowledge Initiative 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 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. O pen C ourse W MIT Post OKI

Open Knowledge Initiative Educational Services Ecosysytem: Locii of Control MIT Imp. NCSU Imp. UWisc. Imp. NCSU Imp. Stanford Imp.. Stanford Imp. AuthNAuthZDBMSFileGUIDLogEtc... Course MgmtContent MgmtAssessmentEtc... Components Common Services Pedagogical Tools Educational Application Suite Infrastructure Faculty and Academic Programs Marketspace Educational Institutions Post OKI

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

Open Knowledge Initiative Deliverables Stanford Implementation MIT Implementation Stanford Implementation UPenn Implemenation MIT Imp. NCSU Imp. UWisc. Imp. NCSU Imp. Stanford Imp.. Stanford Imp. AuthNAuthZDBMSFileGUIDLogEtc... Course MgmtContent MgmtAssessmentEtc... LMS APIs Common Service APIs Pedagogical Tools Application Suite Infrastructure

Open Knowledge Initiative 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 Deliverables OKI Framework Specification MIT Implementation MIT Imp. MIT Imp. MIT Imp. MIT Imp. MIT Imp. MIT Imp. AuthNAuthZDBMSFileGUIDLogEtc... Course MgmtContent MgmtAssessmentEtc... LMS APIs Common Service APIs Infrastructure Framework Implementations

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

Open Knowledge Initiative Deliverables OKI Framework Specification MIT Implementation MIT Imp. MIT Imp. MIT Imp. MIT Imp. MIT Imp. MIT Imp. AuthNAuthZDBMSFileGUIDLogEtc... Course MgmtContent MgmtAssessmentEtc... LMS APIs Common Service APIs Infrastructure Framework Implementations

Open Knowledge Initiative Deliverables OKI Framework Specification Framework Implementations –Local Implementations Stanford Implementation Stanford Imp. Stanford Imp.. Stanford Imp. AuthNAuthZDBMSFileGUIDLogEtc... Course MgmtContent MgmtAssessmentEtc... LMS APIs Common Service APIs Infrastructure

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

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