Resolutions for Higher Education
Format Ideas: "Ten Resolutions on the Future of Higher Education"
- give context
- allow full range of access to course materials for community
- encourage all faculty to make materials available online for free
- connect to values
- prepare for future
- why...?
- preamble
Values:
- service to humanity
Whereas:
- technology does 'x'
- the college holds 'x' values
- our peers are engaging in 'x'
- it's super easy! (--> we have the intellectual and material resources)
So...
- --> Upshot for Social Justice -->
- --> Upshot for Students -->
- --> Public knowledge is public power -->
- --> The world is changing in 'x' ways -->
Resolved:
- we should provide facilities to make all course materials (professor work, student work, etc.) available freely to the public
- encourage all faculty to publish online
- highlight open journals
- provide for assistance to those faculty that wish to publish online but are unable
Rules of Higher Education:
- constructively encourage faculty and students to express ideas to the world
- provide means to members of the community to publish openly
- provide access to these ideas to humanity
- publish library collections
- space for students to publish
- establish and participate in efforts to engage in civil and informed discourse
- constructively contribute to the intellectual commons in cyberspace
(ideas from Freenet meeting on 3/8/11)
Draft 1:
The world is changing. We see it everyday. A new world emerges, and advances in information technology profoundly affect our ability to share information. It is essential now that we take a moment to consider the role of education in our society. In the interest of future generations, for the sake of social justice, and in the name of our shared humanity, we find it necessary to express the following:
Whereas the marginal cost in the reproduction and transmission of information approaches zero,