Tuesday, February 1, 2011

david wiley


Dr. David Wiley is Associate Professor of Instructional Psychology and Technology at Brigham Young University, where he also serves as Associate Director of the Center for the Improvement of Teacher Education and Schooling with responsibility for the research unit.

David is founder and board member of the Open High School of Utah and Chief Openness Officer of Flat World Knowledge. David was formerly Associate Professor of Instructional Technology and Director of the Center for Open and Sustainable Learning at Utah State University. David has been a Nonresident Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, a Visiting Scholar at the Open University of the Netherlands, and a recipient of the US National Science Foundation's CAREER grant. David is also the Founder of OpenContent.org and was recently named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business. His career is dedicated to increasing access to educational opportunity for everyone around the world.

David is an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons), and served a two-year mission for the church in Fukuoka, Japan. David lives in Utah with his wife, Elaine, and their five children.


open ed conf - open source moving into non-software types of communities
8 yrs ago only higher ed, but now greater involvement in 9-12 and community colleges

david wiley in 2009

open highschool, he founded a couple yrs ago, it's a charter school, fully online, public school, so state pays for utah students, and capacity is capped, funded for 250

committed to a high level, continuous quality improvement
in charter app:
1) only using open ed resources - to sustain ongoing continuous quality improvement
2) culture on really caring about data in day to day kinds of ways, rather than waiting till end
teachers involved in a process of being involved in learning management system

teaching model
all course materials are loaded into moodle, students interact there
teachers interacting all day, skype, phone, etc
instead of giving same lecture 6 times in a day. so on days it works for you, you don't hear from teacher, so sort of like a blended model but all on line
strategic tutoring... only

the more we're able to do w/tech the stronger the moral imperative becomes
benefits of openness 
huge question

enlarge the activity space

goal - to be useful/helpful

q&a - openness and capitalism and socialism
flatworld knowledge
always - policy is much tougher than the possibility of tech
we could be educating the world right now with tech, policy is getting in the way

open 1.0 -mit - how it's supported, not connected to something sustainable. also very much a read only as opposed to a read-write, even though all are open, there's a lot that you couldn't edit if you wanted to (pdf)
doesn't model something others can adopt broadly 
not a critique of mit - just the first guy out of the gate is a 1.0 and now it's 10 yrs later, we ought to be better
2.0 - more connected - have revenue generations built in - can sustain over long time  (how easily editable it is)
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