The Open Organization Guide for Educators
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The Open Organization Guide for Educators The Open Organization Guide for Educators Transformative teaching and learning for a rapidly changing world Contributing authors (in alphabetical order) Amarachi Achonu Mukkai Krishnamoorthy Beth Anderson Gina Likins Bryan Behrenshausen Clara May Maxwell Bushong Ian McDermott Carolyn Butler Dan McGuire Curtis A. Carver Christopher McHale Aria F. Chernik Race MoChridhe Susie Choi Steven Ovadia Dipankar Dasgupta Ben Owens Heidi Ellis David Preston Denise Ferebee Rahul Razdan David Goldschmidt Charlie Reisinger Adam Haigler Justin Sherman Jim Hall Wesley Turner Tanner Johnson Shobha Tyagi Marcus Kelly Jim Whitehurst Ryan Williams Copyright Copyright © 2019 Red Hat, Inc. All written content, as well as the cover image, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribu- tion-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.1 Amarachi Achonu's "Making computer science curricula as adaptable as our code" originally appeared at https://opensource.- com/open-organization/19/4/adaptable-curricula-computer-science Beth Anderson's "An open process for discovering our school's core values" originally appeared at https://opensource.- com/open-organization/16/6/opening-discover-education-centers- core-values. Curtis A. Carver's "Crowdsourcing our way to a campus IT plan" originally appeared at https://opensource.com/open-organiza- tion/17/10/uab-100-wins-through-crowdsourcing. Brandon Dixon and Randall Joyce's "The most valuable cy- bersecurity education is an open one" originally appeared at https://opensource.com/open-organization/19/8/open-cybersecu- rity-education. Heidi Ellis' "What happened when I let my students fork the syllabus" originally appeared at https://opensource.com/open-orga- nization/18/11/making-course-syllabus-open. Heidi Ellis' "Open organizations on Mars" originally ap- peared at https://opensource.com/open-organization/18/1/imagining-open- communities. Adam Haigler's "Truly open education will require sweeping changes" originally appeared at https://opensource.com/open-orga- nization/18/1/open-education-public-mission. Jim Hall's "M-learning and beyond" originally appeared at https://opensource.com/open-organization/19/7/m-learning-open- education. 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Tanner Johnson's "How our organization works openly to make education accessible" first appeared at https://opensource.- com/open-organization/19/2/building-curriculahub. Gina Likins' "Performing the collaborative dilemma" origi- nally appeared in The Open Organization Workbook. Race MoChridhe's "Confronting linguistic bias: The case for an open human language" originally appeared at https://open- source.com/open-organization/19/4/open-language-for-open- education. Ben Owens' "Can schools be agile?" originally appeared at https://opensource.com/open-organization/19/4/education-culture- agile. Charlie Reisinger's "The open schoolhouse: Culture, praxis, empowerment" originally appeared at https://opensource.com/ open-organization/19/7/open-schoolhouse-empowerment. Justin Sherman's "The future of ethical tech education must be open" originally appeared at https://opensource.com/open-orga- nization/19/6/future-ethical-tech-edu-open. Jim Whitehrust's "Open education is more than open con- tent" originally appeared at https://opensource.com/open- organization/16/8/harnessing-power-open-education. Colophon Typeset in DejaVu2 and Red Hat.3 Produced with LibreOffice.4 Cover design by Clara May and Ryan Williams. Version 1. 1 September 2019 2 https://dejavu-fonts.github.io/ 3 https://github.com/RedHatOfficial/RedHatFont 4 https://www.libreoffice.org/ !dditional reading "rom Jim Whitehurst The Open Organization: Igniting passion and performance (Har- vard Business Review Press) Organize for Innovation: Rethinking how we work (Opensource.- com) "rom the open organization community The Open Organization Field Guide: Practical tips for igniting pas- sion and performance (Opensource.com) The Open Organization Leaders Manual: A handbook for building innovative and engaged teams (Opensource.com) The Open Organization Workbook: How to build a culture of inno- vation in your organization (Opensource.com) The Open Organization Guide to IT Culture Change: Open princi- ples and practices for a more innovative IT department (Opensource.com) Every week, Opensource.com publishes new stories about the ways open principles help innovative leaders rethink organizational cul- ture and design. Visit opensource.com/open-organization to read more. Contents Preface 15 Bryan Behrenshausen About the cover 18 Clara May & Ryan Williams Foreword 20 Aria F. Chernik Visions Economics, openness, and the education system 25 Rahul Razdan Truly open education will require sweeping changes 34 Adam Haigler The future of ethical tech education must be open 41 Justin Sherman A practical path to open education 50 Dan McGuire Can schools be agile? 62 Ben Owens M-learning and beyond 68 Jim Hall The most valuable cybersecurity education is an open one 73 Brandon Dixon & Randall Joyce Rethinking assessment in an open, peeragogical learning environment 80 David Preston Three ways university classrooms can be more open 88 Susie Choi Open education is more than open content 93 Jim Whitehurst Case %tudies A hybrid model of open source in academics: The Rensselaer Center for Open Source 100 Wesley Turner, David Goldschmidt & Mukkai Krishnamoorthy Teaching students to critically evaluate textbooks 110 Christopher McHale, Ian McDermott & Steven Ovadia What happened when I let my students fork the syllabus 118 Heidi Ellis An open process for discovering our school's core values 126 Beth Anderson 5PH1NX: 5tudent Peer Heuristic for 1Nformation Xchange (a slightly transmedia use case in Open Source Learning and peeragogical assessment) 133 David Preston The open schoolhouse: Culture, praxis, empowerment 143 Charlie Reisinger Flip the script: An open community of practice at the student help desk 149 Maxwell Bushong Open education has a POSSE 156 Shobha Tyagi Confronting linguistic bias: The case for an open human language 163 Race MoChridhe Crowdsourcing our way to a campus IT plan 170 Curtis A. Carver How our organization works openly to make education accessible 176 Tanner Johnson Making computer science curricula as adaptable as our code 186 Amarachi Achonu !ctivities Making those (dreaded) faculty meetings transparent, collaborative, and effective 192 Aria F. Chernik & Tanner Johnson Digital forensics the open way: A tabletop approach to common scenarios 198 Denise Ferebee, Carolyn Butler, Dipankar Dasgupta & Marcus Kelly How to collect feedback from your students (or, how to assess the sting of teenage rejection) 212 Charlie Reisinger Performing the collaborative dilemma 216 Gina Likins Open organizations on Mars 228 Heidi Ellis Afterword 233 Ben Owens !ppendi& The Open Organization Definition 238 The Open Organization Ambassadors 'earn (ore Additional resources 246 Get involved 247 Preface Bryan Behrenshausen ne of this book's proposed subtitles was "Revolutionizing O teaching and learning for a more collaborative future." It certainly was compelling. Who doesn't love a good revolution? But like "The Simpsons'" Nelson Muntz staring disappoint- edly at the cinema marquee for "Naked Lunch," co-editors Aria Chernik and Ben Owens mulled our work and said, "I can think of at least two things wrong with that title."5 The Open Organization Guide for Educators features stories from teachers, administrators, and students who certainly have embraced a collaborative, iterative, transparent, inclusive—and, in a word, more open—approach to building educational organiza- tions. As they've all demonstrated, it's an approach to education with the power to create classrooms that are more engaging and learner-centered, faculty meetings that foreground meritocracy and accountability, lessons that are open to anyone's feedback and modification, assessments that empower rather than punish, and teaching communities built first and foremost on trust and a propensity for sharing. And nothing about it should seem revolutionary. In fact, referring to it that way risks giving the impression that it's some kind of radical or eccentric set of ideas about teach- ing and learning. But the possibility that someone might perceive it as such should give anyone pause. After all, the authors in this vol- ume don't sound like revolutionaries. They sound like dedicated advocates for an education system that's in sync with its technical, 5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sL102pyaLg 15 The Open Organization Guide for Educators social, economic, and ethical contexts; that's preparing people to act not only effectively but also humanely in those contexts; and that's capable of responding adequately when those contexts in- evitably shift. Education doesn't need revolution. It needs a thoughtful, careful, and deliberate upgrade for the 21st century. So that word had to go. And disappear it did—in favor of something that emphasized open education's transformative power. One final matter, then, was "the future." The reality is that educators aren't advocating greater open- ness as a way of preparing students for the future. They're doing it to help them participate in the world as it is today. Increasingly, modern organizations are more dynamic and nonhierarchical. They're filled with people intrinsically motivated by visions and val- ues that transcend the profit motive. And they're more porous, connecting more readily with external partners and communities. Authors of the forthcoming pages want