{"id":407,"date":"2011-01-02T10:28:32","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T17:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/?p=407"},"modified":"2011-01-02T10:30:04","modified_gmt":"2011-01-02T17:30:04","slug":"dreaming-about-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/archives\/407","title":{"rendered":"Dreaming about open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have always been an active dreamer, frequently dreaming solutions or ideas related to projects I am working on. I have been known to dream system designs, entire term papers,\u00a0 and even architectural plans. While these ideas often seem brilliant when I am first awake, by light of day, they often seem less so.<\/p>\n<p>Lately, I have been immersed in a project on <a href=\"http:\/\/p2pu.org\/\">Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU<\/a>), an online learning environment for motivated adult learners with an emphasis on openness, peer learning, and community. To that list of core values, I would add self-personlization.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, I dreamed about this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Open Business School<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Tag line: Because your learning shouldn&#8217;t be constrained to what <em>they <\/em>think is important<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">or Because you know best what you need to learn<\/p>\n<p>The idea is a business school on P2pU for entrepreneurs, in particular for those for whom it doesn&#8217;t make sense to go to traditional business school (arguably most entrepreneurs). The curriculum would include a variety of courses in traditional business areas, such as marketing, finance, management, etc. but with a strong slant toward open learning.<\/p>\n<p>To me, that means:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lots of learner choices (in terms of courses, focus areas, projects, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Very hands-on<\/li>\n<li>Less content and more scaffolding and resources to choose from to guide one&#8217;s own learning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Done right, this is profoundly different from how most schools operate.<\/p>\n<p>So then, after waking up, I thought, hey, what about this same idea for a school of education? Many in ed reform have bemoaned the short comings of traditional pre-service education and in-service professional development. Importantly, it doesn&#8217;t model the values of the new participatory model of education that we hope teachers will follow. A new P2PU Open School of Education could change all that. (I&#8217;m going to write more about this in a future post.)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s now about six hours after I woke up from dreaming this idea, and it still seems pretty good to me. Perhaps it is not a very big idea, but for me,\u00a0 it is a new way of grokking &#8220;open&#8221; that is exciting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always been an active dreamer, frequently dreaming solutions or ideas related to projects I am working on. I have been known to dream system designs, entire term papers,\u00a0 and even architectural plans. 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