Education For All: Ten years of open education luminaries from around the world

In celebration of Open Education Global’s 10th Anniversary of Open Education Awards for Excellence

David T. Kindler, Marcela Morales, Paul Stacey

• Publisher: buch & netz
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9783038054511
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

Education for all is a bold, audacious statement. But that is the very goal of open education. Can you imagine a world where access to education materials is free? Where teachers and learners have the right to reuse, revise, remix, localize and translate those materials? Where copies of textbooks and course materials can be retained without cost? Can you imagine a world where teachers and learners co-create education together? A world where learners engage in assignments that generate global public goods benefiting everyone? You may say this isn't possible, but open educators around the world have been doing this for years. Building on the work of luminaries such as those featured in this book, open education has grown into a global movement transforming education. Each year, Open Education Global opens up nominations for awards to the entire global open education community. As part of the 10th anniversary of these awards, OEGlobal is publishing this Education For All book, collecting all ten years of award winners into a single volume. This book is a celebration of their achievements.

Individual Award Winners

Lifetime Achievement Award

The Lifetime Acheivement Award is a Special Merit Award presented by the Board of Directors to individuals who, during their lifetimes and careers, have made creative contributions of outstanding significance to the advancement of open education.

Frederic Michael Litto – 2014

Fredric M. Litto was awarded the Lifetime Achievement ACE award in 2011 from the OpenCourseWare Consortium for his lifelong contributions to digital and open education, enhancing the capacity of Brazilian universities to produce, maintain and use OERs and OCWs.

Litto is Professor Emeritus at the University of São Paulo, where he served thirty-five years as professor of communications. He founded and directed from 1989 to 2006 the “School of the Future,” a self-sustaining laboratory of more than 70 researchers/producers. Together they produced digital learning materials for school-based virtual learning communities; digital open-content multimedia repositories of humanistic material for learners in Portuguese; and learning objects in science education used annually by more than two million young and adult learners.

Litto served for many years as president of the Brazilian Association for Distance Education-ABED, a learned society with 2,600 members. In addition, he was a member of the Executive Committee of the ICDE-International Council for Open and Distance Learning and Re.ViCa International Advisory Committee (IAC).

Born in New York City in 1939, Litto received his B.A. at the University of California, Los Angeles (1960), his Ph.D. at Indiana University, Bloomington (1969), and his Livre-Docente degree at the University of São Paulo (1977).

He has served as a member of the editorial boards of American Journal of Distance Education (USA); Advanced Technology and Learning (USA); Open Learning (U.K.); IRRODL-International Review of Research in Open & Distance Learning (Canada); and RIED-Revista Iberoamericana de Educación a Distancia (Spain). In addition, he has served as a consultant to the World Bank and as a member of the ICDE Task-Force on OERs.

In 2013, he signed the accord between ABED and the OpenCourseWare Consortium, providing the OpenCourseWare Consortium with a national affiliate consortium in Brazil and enhancing the capacity of Brazilian universities to produce, maintain and use OERs and OCWs.

ABED Associação Brasileira de Educação a Distância

http://www2.abed.org.br/

Rory McGreal – 2016

Dr. Rory McGreal is an influential international OER expert. His research and substantial participation in the global discourse argue persuasively for the benefits of openly licensed learning materials. He is a true OER globetrotter, supporting institutions and governments in many parts of the world with his presentations and guidance, generating global impact.

McGreal was the recipient of one of the first two UNESCO Chairs in OER established in 2010. With his OER Chair, he operates the OER Knowledge Cloud, a curated database and repository to identify, collect, preserve, and disseminate documents related to open educational resources.

He is a professor in the Centre for Distance Education at Athabasca University– Canada’s Open University based in Alberta, Canada. As a researcher in Open and Flexible Learning, McGreal has been an active participant in the international research community. He has become an influential expert on OER and mobile learning.

He is the director of the Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute (TEKRI), and a co-editor of the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL).

Athabasca University

http://unescochair.athabascau.ca/

President’s Award

The President’s Award is a recognition presented by the Board of Directors to an institution or an individual with exceptional contributions to the field of open education, serving as an inspirational model of engagement and commitment.

Catherine Casserly – 2011

Catherine Casserly was presented the President’s Award for OpenCourseWare Excellence for developing the Open Educational Resources Initiative while at The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

As director of the OER Initiative, Casserly guided more than $100 million in support to increase knowledge sharing efficiency and effectiveness worldwide. Her work helped raise global awareness of resources, participants, and their projects. She also served as program manager for Hewlett’s grant in support of MIT OpenCourseWare.

Casserly served as CEO of Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that develops, supports, and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation. Creative Commons licenses support the open sharing of many Consortium member course materials. In her prior role at the Carnegie Foundation, Casserly served as Senior Partner & Vice President, Innovation and Open Networks, spearheading Carnegie’s work in open education and supporting the creation of alternative mathematics pathways for community college students.

Shigeru Miyagawa – 2012

Shigeru Miyagawa was present at the birth of OpenCourseWare. He was on the original team that proposed OpenCourseWare and now serves on the MIT OpenCourseWare Advisory Board. He has also helped to start opencoursewares in Japan and elsewhere.

Miyagawa has been at MIT since 1991, where he is Professor of Linguistics and holds the Kochi-Manjiro Professor of Japanese Language and Culture Endowed Chair. He has published numerous books and monographs and has nearly fifty articles on syntax, argument structure, and East Asian and Altaic linguistics.

He runs a laboratory that creates interactive educational programs. JP NET, which has the entire MIT Japanese program on the web, was one of the first online projects in the world to place an entire academic program on the Internet (1993-1994). Visualizing Cultures, in collaboration with the Pulitzer Prize historian John W. Dower, has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Humanities as an outstanding humanities educational website.

Martha Kanter – 2014

Dr. Martha Kanter served as the Under Secretary of Education in the United States from 2009 to 2013, where she oversaw postsecondary, adult, and career-technical education. She was instrumental in establishing a $2 billion federal grant program designed to increase education quality, graduation rates, and employment opportunities for community college students. A key component of this grant program is the requirement that all materials carry a CC-BY license, launching the largest ever investment of the US government in OER.

From 2003 to 2009, Kanter served as chancellor of the Foothill-De Anza Community College District, one of the largest community college districts in the US, serving more than 45,000 students with a total budget of approximately $400 million. In 2006, she founded the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER), representing the fastest-growing segment of OCWC’s membership. She is now Chief Executive Officer of College Promise and Senior Fellow at the Steinhardt Institute for Higher Education Policy at New York University.

She began her career as an alternative high school teacher and then established the first program for students with learning disabilities in California. She then served as a director, dean, and vice chancellor for policy and research for the California Community Colleges, before serving as Vice President of Instruction for San Jose City College and then President of DeAnza College.

The University of Maryland University College (UMUC) – 2015

The University of Maryland University College (UMUC) in 2013 embarked on an ambitious project to convert their courses and curriculum so that learning resources would have no cost to students, primarily through the implementation of open educational resources. UMUC wanted to better serve its students in the military, improve accessibility, and lower costs to students.

The project involved a systematic review of courses and resources to identify no-cost alternatives. The OER/No-Cost project is part of a broader transition, what UMUC calls “enhancing the learning model.” As part of this new model, learning resources will be available throughout any program, not just on a per-course basis. By moving to OERs, students will have immediate and no-cost access to the resources they need to learn. The project was available for the undergraduate program in 2013, with the graduate school coming on board in 2016.

UMUC is the largest public institution in the University of Maryland System and one of the largest distance learning institutions in the United States. Its students are primarily residents of the state of Maryland and the U.S. military.

Mary Lou Forward – 2018

Mary Lou Forward served for nine years as Executive Director of the Open Education Consortium. Her unique and varied background allows her to understand the needs of learners worldwide and help OEC make a truly global impact.

During her tenure at the Open Education Consortium, Forward traveled the world, creating and connecting open education communities. She was instrumental in policy development, fostering relationships, and creating enthusiasm for open education. She supported the tremendous growth of open courses published by members, partnered with other open organizations and initiatives to expand the impact of open. In addition, Forward was instrumental in launching the Open Education Awards and Open Education Week.

Before joining the Consortium, she was Dean of African Studies for SIT Study Abroad and served as an Academic Director for undergraduate programs in Madagascar, focused on Environmental Studies and Cultural Geography. After OEC, Forward became Executive Director of The SUNY COIL Center, which has been working to promote and professionalize the practice of Collaborative Online International Learning and Virtual Exchange. It serves the State University of New York system and offers services to higher education institutions worldwide.

James Glapa-Grossklag – 2019

James Glapa-Grossklag is the Dean of Educational Technology, Learning Resources, and Distance Learning at College of the Canyons in California. He has been instrumental in advancing open education worldwide through exceptional dedication, outstanding contribution, and exemplary service.

Glapa-Grossklag directs the Distance Education Captioning and Transcription grant, supporting California Community Colleges in making distance learning accessible. He has also coordinated technical assistance for the California Community College’s Zero Textbook Cost Degree program.

He was previously President of the Community College Consortium for OER (CCCOER) and President of the Directors of Educational Technology in California Higher Education (DETCHE) and is an OER Ambassador for the International Council of Distance and Open Education (ICDE).

Leadership Award

The Leadership Award is presented to an individual who has demonstrated significant leadership and longstanding involvement with Open Education. A person who has made significant and clear contributions to the furtherance of the Open Education movement, whose contributions to Open Education have spanned regions or had a global impact.

Pedro Aranzadi Elejabeitia – 2011

Pedro Aranzadi Elejabeitia is Managing Director at Portal Universia, S.A., where he has played a leading role in organizing Spanish and Latin American opencourseware projects.

From 2004-2005, Elejabeitia led the translation of MIT OpenCourseWare into Spanish and Portuguese. In addition, he coordinated the development of OCW sites at more than 100 Spanish and Latin American universities.

He is managing director for Univers...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table Of Contents
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• History of Open Education Global
• History of the Awards
• Open Education Awards Timeline
• Value of Open Education Awards for Excellence
• The Future of the Awards
• Individual Award Winners
• Open Asset Award Winners
• Open Practices
• Open Innovation
• Special Awards