Open Minnesota (OER 2013) - Open Governance, Open Policies, and Affordable Education

A More Open Minnesota

Open Governance, Open Policies, and Affordable Education

Slides: http://z.umn.edu/opened13

What is GAPSA?Brittany Edwards - GAPSA Presidente: edwa0180@umn.edu t: bretagnedianaAlfonso Sintjago - GAPSA Vice Presidente: sintjago@umn.edu t: remixed_ed

Building a Faculty Culture of Change

● An increasingly fed-eralized market for undergraduate education, has made the competition for new students the sine qua non of financial success.

● A moribund accreditation system punishes those who try to do things differently.

● A troublesome fractiousness holds sway on many campuses, with a take-no-prisoners rhetoric.

● And a faculty, encamped just north of Armageddon, knows that change lies just over the horizon but is not yet convinced that change is either necessary or desirable. (Zemsky)

Reframing Government

Developmental Evaluation ModelExtensive Structural

ChangesPolicy Sprint

Willingness To Change

Communicative Action Theory

Deliberative Democracy

Jürgen Habermas

Wolfram Huke CC-BY-SA-3.0

Interactive Evaluation Practice

Teams of 31) Interviewer2) Responder3) Recorder

By Pat O’LearyWhat is the greatest challenge facing the adoption of open education?

Cooperative Interviews

(Jean King 2013)

Open Governance = Citizenville

“For the first time in history anyone can hold the world's knowledge in the palm of their hand.”

By Alfonso Sintjago

(Gavin Newsom 2013)

“Great campaign become movements. They create enthusiasm, buy-in and connection, then it disappears after the election is over.”

Open Governance as a Practice

- Open Standards Spark Innovation and Growth- Build a Simple System and Let it Evolve - Design for Participation - Learning from Your “Hackers” - Data Mining Allows You To Harness Participation - Lower The Barriers to Experimentation - Lead By Example

Open Government(Lathrop & Ruma 2010)

Student Governance as a Lab

Thomas Bower - CC-BY-SA http://www.booksprints.net/ http://leapfrog.umn.edu/futureofeducation/

More ideas = Better ideas

Dr. Barry Kudrowitz @kudrowitz

of MIT and UMN Productivity+Creativity

Playing improv games increased ideas by 36%

SJ CockellCC-BY

Yes, AND:1) Defer judgment (NO EVALUATION) 2) build on ideas(Kudrowitz 2011)

Let’s Improv!

Visualization Principles

1) Typography2) Color3) Attention to Detail4) Meaningful Drama

(Eugene Bae Park 2013)

What comments do you have for the Board of Regents?

Art of Hosting● Open Space Technology ● World Café● Circle Practice

Other Examples:

● Promoting Open Textbooks at UMN ● Booksprint on the Future of Education ● Governing Documents Policy Sprint● Incorporation of Open Values

More Examples:

● Forum on the Sustainability of HE● U of M Libraries and OA Week● TEDxUMN and Video Presentations● Grand Challenge OOCs● Booksprints and E-Books

Thanks.Questions?

Resources Available At: http://z.umn.edu/open