At the Melton Foundation's 2013 Global Citizenship Conference "Springboard Sessions", M.S. Vijay Kumar, Senior Strategic Advisor, Digital Learning and Director, Office of Educational Innovation and Technology at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), takes us on a journey from Lesotho to Haiti to Maine and Massachusetts to illuminate how open education is extending learning opportunities for all.

1. Something happening here
what it is ain’t exactly clear…
- Buffalo Springfield

3. Polling Question (?)
Q1. With today’s computer and telecommunications
technologies,can every young person have a quality
education (regardless of his or her place of birth or
wealth)?
A) YES
B) NO
50%
A
50%
B

4. Click to edit Master title style
Open
• Content
• Tools/Applications
– Finding; Getting; Using
– Knowledge
• Enabling Resources
– Legal
– Policy
– Community
Technology
• Networks;Devices; Software ;
Architecture; Processes
– Mobile Computing
– Cloud Computing
– Data Visualization & Analytics
– Simple Augmented Reality
– The Semantic Web
– Game-Based Learning
Educational Innovation
and Transformation
The Technology and Open Influence

7. Entrepreneurs, Cité Soleil, Haiti,
used OCW to develop solar-
powered street lights for some of
Haiti’s poorest communities

8. 6002x.blogspot.com – the new classroom
Where is this?

9. Unlocking Knowledge
Inspiring a Movement

10. The Open Explosion: Internet for
“Non-Traditional” Education
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13. MITx: 6.002x Circuits & Electronics
13

14. MITx: 6.002x Circuits & Electronics
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15. Research Tools for Learning
15
StarBiochem

16. iLab: If you can’t come to the lab… the lab will come to you!

17. E-Science initiatives
Faulkes Telescope Project (Las Cumbres
Observatory) Global Telescope Network
• Access to telescopes in
Hawaii, Australia
• Access to experts and
collaborative projects

18. A Fab Education

19. Fab Lab Education
Formal   Informal
Adult   Youth

20. Gaming Frameworks

21. An Active Learning Ecosystem
• Vignettes
• Simulations
• Virtual Labs
• Home kits
• Gaming
• Assessment
• Authoring

24. Polling Question 2
Q2. Which is the Magic Bullet?
A) Remote Labs
B) Open Content
C) MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses)
D) Simulations/Visualizations/Games?
00:10
0%
A
0%
B
0%
C
100%
D

25. Global Ambitions
The elimination of “unfreedoms”:
knowledge, education, health.
- Amartya Sen

26. We are seeing the early emergence of a meta-university

27. Framing Questions
• Is great technology enough?
• Will the Network-Enabled, Open Education
Model(Flipped Model) become the dominant
modality for delivering all education?
• Can the metauniversity – globally shared
resources (content and community) to
provide flexible life-long active learning
education become real and ubiquitous?
– What are the top 2/3 benefits?
– What are top 3 major challenges/obstacles?

29. Visible Usable;
Situated Anywhere; Virtual; Blended
Receiving/Knowing Affecting
Limited Term Varying; Lifelong
Enrolled Student Registered; Life-long Member
Dropouts 100% completion
DE as 2nd Class Net-Enabled, Open as Central
Modality
University Metaversity

31. Photo credits
• waterdrop_1 http://www.flickr.com/people/rifqidahlgren/ Peter Dahlgren
• waterdrop_2 http://www.flickr.com/photos/victoriawhite/ Victoria White
• ripples_pond http://www.flickr.com/photos/jedlangdon/ Jed Langdon
• stream http://www.flickr.com/people/kikocat/ kittylitter
• endless http://www.flickr.com/photos/waltstoneburner/ walt stoneburner
• seashore http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegratz/ Joe Gratz
• ocean http://www.flickr.com/people/repoort/ Adam Hally