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

1. A More Open
Minnesota
Open Governance, Open Policies, and
Affordable Education
Slides: http://z.umn.edu/opened13

2. What is GAPSA?
Brittany Edwards - GAPSA President
e: edwa0180@umn.edu t: bretagnediana
Alfonso Sintjago - GAPSA Vice President
e: sintjago@umn.edu t: remixed_ed

4. Building a Faculty Culture of Change
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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)

5. Reframing Government
Developmental Evaluation Model
Policy Sprint
Willingness To Change
Extensive Structural
Changes

6. Wolfram Huke
CC-BY-SA-3.0
Communicative
Action Theory
Deliberative Democracy
Jürgen Habermas

7. Interactive Evaluation Practice
Teams of 3
1) Interviewer
2) Responder
3) Recorder
Cooperative
Interviews
(Jean King 2013)
What is the greatest challenge facing the
adoption of open education?
By Pat O’Leary

8. Open Governance = Citizenville
“Great campaign become movements. They create enthusiasm, buy-in
and connection, then it disappears after the election is over.”
“For the first time in history anyone can hold the world's knowledge in
the palm of their hand.”
(Gavin Newsom 2013)

9. 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)

10. Student Governance as a Lab
Thomas Bower - CC-BY-SA
http://www.booksprints.net/
http://leapfrog.umn.edu/futureofeducation/

13. More ideas = Better ideas
Dr. Barry Kudrowitz
@kudrowitz
of MIT and UMN
Productivity+Creativity
Playing improv games
increased ideas by 36%
SJ Cockell
CC-BY

14. Yes, AND:
1) Defer judgment
(NO EVALUATION)
2) build on ideas
(Kudrowitz 2011)
Let’s Improv!

15. Visualization
Principles
1) Typography
2) Color
3) Attention to Detail
4) Meaningful Drama
(Eugene Bae Park 2013)
What comments do you have
for the Board of Regents?

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

17. Other Examples:
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Promoting Open Textbooks at UMN
Booksprint on the Future of Education
Governing Documents Policy Sprint
Incorporation of Open Values

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

19. Thanks.
Questions?
Resources Available At: http://z.umn.edu/open