Program

The OPEN Forum offers the engagement of strong, insightful plenary speakers and emphasizes significant opportunity for dialogue.

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Reception: 6:30 - 8:30 pm
 

Monday, December 8, 2008

Program: 7 am - 5 pm
  OPEN: The Strategic Institutional Impact
Innovation in Learning:  Aiming to Do More with Less
John Seely Brown,
Former Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation,
Visiting Scholar at the University of Southern California

Evolution and Revolution for Scholarship:
Critical Choices in an Era of Open

Brad Wheeler,
Vice President for Information Technology and Professor of Business,
Indiana University
The Path to Open: Tenets for Institutional Planning in an Era of Open
M.S. Vijay Kumar,
Senior Associate Dean and Director,
Office of Educational Innovation and Technology,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Discussion and debate

  Open Educational Resources
Open Content – The Vision and The Reality
David Wiley,
Associate Professor,
Brigham Young University

Discussion and debate

  Open Publishing
Open Access to Scholarly Journals
John King,
Vice Provost for Academic Information,
University of Michigan
  Discussion and debate
Driving Action in Textbook Affordability
Nicole Allen,
Director, Make Textbooks Affordable Campaign
Student Public Interest Research Groups
Dev Prakash Sinha,
Associate Professor,
University of Oregon

  Discussion and debate

Reception and Dinner: 6 - 8 pm
Moving Beyond Affirmative Ambivalence
Casey Green,
Founding Director,
The Campus Computing Project

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Program: 7 am - 3 pm


Open Source Strategy

Implementation and Adoption Models – Key Stakeholder Perspectives
Moderator:
Chris Coppola,
President,
rSmart
Raul Rodriguez,
President,
San Joaquin Delta College
Kathleen McNeely
Associate Vice President and Executive Director,
Financial Management Services,
Indiana University
Shel Waggener,
Associate Vice Chancellor for Information Technology &
Chief Information Officer,
University of California at Berkeley
  Discussion and debate

Worst Case Scenarios and a Framework for Managing Risk
Phil Robb,
Chairman, and General Manager of FOSSBazaar.org &
Engineering Section Manager from Hewlett-Packard
  Workshop discussion

  OPEN: Closing in on Strategic Institutional Impact
  Discussion and planning

Spotlight Session and Dinner: 3 - 8 pm


Spotlight Session and Dinner for community college participants
hosted by

President Raul Rodriguez,
San Joaquin Delta College

and

Paul Elsner
,
Chancellor Emeritus,
Maricopa County Community College District

The OPEN Forum for Higher Education Executives • December 7-9, 2008 • Palm Springs, CA • hosted by thanos partners