Three Pillars for Open Education

By Elliott Hauser. Open source software has shown the world something amazing: that thousands or even millions of people can collaborate in a relatively uncoordinated way to achieve something remarkable.  Many of us are thinking about how open education might replicate this staggering success.  I want to share some of the thought we're developing at Coursefork.org with the HASTAC community and invite comments, feedback, and help making open education a reality. 
Despite the ambitious title, I can't claim I know for sure how we'll build education's open future.  But by examining the history of open source, I think we can see what shape the answer will take.  And so this is the approach we're taking with Coursefork: the hypothesis that the future of education looks a lot like the present of software and that both are inexorably becoming open. 
There are three areas that we believe educators must develop if we are to make this future a reality: Community, Leadership, and Technology. More...