Open knowledge institutions : reinventing universities / Lucy Montgomery, John Hartley, Cameron Neylon, Malcolm Gillies, Eve Gray, Carsten Herrmann-Pillath, Chun-Kai (Karl) Huang, Joan Leach, Jason Potts, Xiang Ren, Katherine Skinner, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Katie Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Montgomery, Lucy, 1980- author.

Series:

MIT Press

The MIT Press

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--Effect of technological innovations on.

Education, Higher.

Internet in higher education.

Open learning.

MOOCs (Web-based instruction).

Universities and colleges--Planning.

Universities and colleges.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge The MIT Press 2021

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2021.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"A short text that challenges universities to address new networked and digital knowledge platforms, networked practices of knowledge production and new systems of knowledge sharing and certification"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

The Flight of the Penguin

Introduction

The Moondyne Manifesto

1. Change

An Open World

Open Initiatives in Universities

Open Knowledge and Conflict

Open by Design

2. Knowledge

Knowledge and Culture

Knowledge as an Economic Good

Knowledge in the Public Interest

Open and Closed Knowledge Systems

Social Knowledge Production

3. Universities

Universities as Open Knowledge Institutions

Maintaining Open Knowledge Institutions

Opting for Openness?

Universities as OKIs

4. Diversity

What Is the Role of Organizational Diversity?

Building Trust

The University as a Leader in Societal Diversity

5. Coordination

The Principle of Subsidiarity

Knowledge Functions

Coordination and Indicators

Key Issues of Coordination

6. Communication

Communication Is Central

Publishing Open Knowledge

Mediating Open Knowledge

Collecting Open Knowledge

Rebundling Open Knowledge

7. Policy

Policy and Governance Mechanisms

Policy Design

Policy Principles

Policy in Context

8. Indicators

Can We Evaluate Openness?

Challenges in Evaluation

Issues for Framework and Indicator Design

How Do Universities Change? Toward a Framework

Signals of Openness

A Proposal for an Evaluation Framework

Institutionalizing Open Knowledge

A Forward-Looking and Open Framework

9 Action

Ways Forward: Technical, Political, or Both?

Ways to Proceed

Leading the Way

Key Terms

References

Further Reading

Author Bios

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-36515-4

0-262-36516-2

OCLC:

1255632986