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Challenge: The Completions Priority "The completions marketplace should be redesigned to improve overall scalability, measurable impact, mutual affordability, and sustainability. To do so while avoiding intrusive government regulation and retaining local autonomy will require voluntarily confirmed "rules of the road" that enable effective completions practices at autonomous micro levels to be rolled up collectively into mutually affordable common-good macro solutions." Solution: Economic Governance for the Completions Marketplace - a common good critical to economic and social progress "The wisdom of a crowd willing to inform and support adaptive change leadership might help create common ground in a nonprofit, non-governmental global Education Leadership Commons (ELC) formed for the purpose of developing and evolving open interoperability of common educational services, processes, and accountability metrics, all at a minimally intrusive, trusted level of economic governance. Modeled along the lines of the Internet Society's so-far successful governance mechanisms, the ELC could be operationalized through standing working groups, their advisory or governance committees, and other nested and loosely-coupled, efforts to advance and sustain educational attainment within and across the three dimensions of the completions marketplace." - Completions Productivity Task Force - Economic Governance Council chart on page 6: Governance Matrix of Rights and Responsibilities in the Completions Marketplace student, assessment provider, education provider, government (other other funding source) 8 possible outcomes, including accreditation's formative peer-review process is retained "to create "trust-but-verify" economic governance collaborations" "If government can't provide the leadership and funding stability required for victory, then we the people should do so through a social networking micro-contribution mechanism, not unlike the micro-loan infrastructure cr

Mr Shirky lets it all hang out. Good read.

Napster lost the battle but won the war - changing the story and disrupting the cost models; in higher ed our MP3 is the MOOC and our Napster is Udacity...

Napster did lose. What won was DRM-laden iTunes, then Amazon. What lesson will higher education draw from that?

3 vectors of Access, Quality and Cost - and we want to stretch the triangle to have more access, more quality and less cost = "iron triangle" if using traditional teaching methods => unhealthy link between quality and exclusivity in the popular mindset about higher ed; iron triangle can be stretched if we think of higher ed as a system and apply principles of division of labor and specialization (i.e., "unbundle" the professor)

characteristics of open: * enrollment (i.e., open registration), licensed materials (using Creative Commons) * gratis (available at no-cost), libre (everyone has legal rights to repurpose the resource) but some of the "new cohort of MOOCs are open enrollment but not yet openly licensed their courses (experimenting with various business models) "MOOCs should address copyright and licensing early on so they are clear to users how they can utilize and reuse educational materials offered on the site. MOOCs should choose to adopt an open license that meets their goals, but at minimum it is recommended that they choose a public, standardized license that grants to its users the "4Rs" of open content: the ability to Reuse, Revise, Remix, and Redistribute the resources. "

Six Core Challenges lie at the core of the innovative disruption facing higher education: University Model; Structural Model; Funding Model; Cost Model; Business Model; Success Model Seven Areas of Change - The six core challenges noted above are driven by seven areas of rapid change, primarily technological change: The Players; The College Models; The Course Models; Data and Learning Analytics; The Cost: Reduced and Free; Measuring Success; Threats to the Credential

definitions, economics, platforms, assessments, pedagogies still morphing; his perspective as a Fellow at Korea National Open University (and Open U) warns about all the previous efforts that "were ignominiously shuttered"

addressing humans' "essential conservativism" in the face of radical change - and lessons she learned from studying Abraham Lincoln's leadership during the Civil War