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

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

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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)

• 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

Why OKI?

• Enabling and Enduring– Architecture– Business Model ( Open Source)

Open Knowledge Initiative

Projects that bolster the intellectual commons

@ MIT• I-Lab Real Virtual laboratories (WebLabs) coupled with simulation

tools, immersed in a collaborative user environment

• OCW MITOpenCourseWare 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

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 isyour 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,Charles Vest,MIT President’s report, Fall 2001MIT 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

MITOpenCourseWare (OCW)MITOpenCourseWare (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.

OpenCourseWare@MIT OpenCourseWare@MIT

Post OKI

Open Knowledge Initiative

Educational Services Ecosysytem: Locii of Control

MITImp.

MITImp.

NCSUImp.

UWisc.Imp.

NCSUImp.

StanfordImp.

.Stanford

Imp.

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Course Mgmt Content Mgmt Assessment Etc...Components

CommonServices

Pedagogical ToolsEducational 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

StanfordImplementation

MITImplementation

StanfordImplementation

UPennImplemenation

MITImp.

MITImp.

NCSUImp.

UWisc.Imp.

NCSUImp.

StanfordImp.

.Stanford

Imp.

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CommonServiceAPIs

Pedagogical ToolsApplication 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

MITImplementation

MITImplementation

MITImplementation

MITImplementation

MITImp.

MITImp.

MITImp.

MITImp.

MITImp.

MITImp.

MITImp.

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CommonServiceAPIs

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

MITImplementation

MITImplementation

MITImplementation

MITImplementation

MITImp.

MITImp.

MITImp.

MITImp.

MITImp.

MITImp.

MITImp.

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Course Mgmt Content Mgmt Assessment Etc...LMS APIs

CommonServiceAPIs

Infrastructure

• Framework Implementations

Open Knowledge Initiative

Deliverables

• OKI Framework Specification

• Framework Implementations– Local Implementations

StanfordImplementation

StanfordImplementation

StanfordImplementation

StanfordImplementation

StanfordImp.

StanfordImp.

StanfordImp.

StanfordImp.

StanfordImp.

StanfordImp.

.Stanford

Imp.

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Course Mgmt Content Mgmt Assessment Etc...LMS APIs

CommonServiceAPIs

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