Open Education and the Future of University

A Strategy for Open Online Education

questions of interest include the relationship of existing institutions to open internet education; uses of anonymity and certifiable identity in education, democracy and freedom; issues of ownership and governance of an open 3d immersive educational university environment; poker strategic thinking and its relation to a positive business plan for an open net; proposal for a pledgebank model of founding donors for initial venture funding

subtitle: Building an Immersive Future Written in Code and Law

to invite:

rebecca nesson

larry lessig in some form

jef huang

judith donath

beth noveck

john palfrey

kevin wallen

dominik kofert

annie duke

katie salen

howard lederer

juan carlos de martin

jamie gorelick

joichi ito

lauren gelman

john perry barlow

gary loveman

jeff pollack

jan jones

deval patrick

sal demasi

talia milgrom elcott

john bracken

joel klein

eon

make education the internet's best use

• what future do we imagine in an immersive 3d open virtual internet accessible and internet mediated world

see it as a teaching environment in which the authority of the stick isn't real

• what specs for the environment
• who will build it
• how will it govern itself

Challenge Problem: GPSTS seeks a charter from the commonwealth of massachusetts