Introduction - Open Source Teaching

Open Source Teaching is the deep understanding and application of personalized knowledge through new media. The emerging tools of a knowledge-based economy make it possible for all learners to benefit from new forms of media, where access to people with expert, applied knowledge is the new status quo for communication, teaching, and learning. www.opensourceteaching.org. The benefit of open source teaching is equal and pervasive access to learners of diverse perspectives, interests, and socioeconomic capital. Users will become immersed in new paradigms of learning networks where the deep understanding and application of personalized knowledge is the overwhelming and primary expectation.

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Open Source Teaching Art Fuller, Founder & Chair Sage Leadership Partners, Inc. Yi Cui, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Vanderbilt University Mike Dishman, J.D. Murphy, McLocklin, & Dishman, LLP Thomas Ford Regional Director Pearson Achievement Solutions Jessica Lewis Project Manager, Peabody College Vanderbilt University Lance Lott Assistant Superintendent Information Technology & Strategic Planning Metro Nashville Public Schools Judith Pennywell Director International Student and Scholar Services Vanderbilt University David Sevier, Ed.D. Policy Adviser State Board of Education Mary Catherine Sevier, J.D. Executive Director, Foundation Relationships (Effective July 1, 2006) Sage Leadership Partners, Inc. Sage Leadership Partners, Inc. P.O. Box 330951 Murfreesboro, TN 37133 (615) 849 - 1170 [email protected] www.opensourceteaching.org

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Sage Leadership Partners, Inc. Sage Leadership Partners is committed to maximizing the fact that the tools of a knowledge-based economy make it possible for larger proportions of society to benefit from new forms of media, where access to people with expert, applied knowledge becomes the new status quo for communication, teaching, and learning. Founded in April of 2006, Sage Leadership Partners, Inc. is a non-profit organization focused on knowledge management and strategy for tomorrow’s world, today. Specifically, we are committed to the implementation of strategies that empower students from traditionally underserved communities to attain greater access to social and learning networks with established academic and socioeconomic capital. Our Board Sage Leadership Partners, Inc. is comprised of seven board members focused on the organizational management, implementation, and institutionalization of open source teaching. The founder and chairman of Sage Leadership Partners, Inc. is Art Fuller, Executive Assistant and Fiscal Budget Officer for the Tennessee State Board of Education. Mr. Fuller has served in the field of education for twelve years holding public policy, project management, professional training, information technology, media consultant, and teaching positions. The vicechairs of Sage Leadership Partners, Inc. are Judith Pennywell, Director of International Student and Scholar Services at Vanderbilt University, and Mike Dishman, J.D., partner of McLocklin, Murphy & Dishman, L.L.P. The secretary of Sage Leadership Partners, Inc. is David Sevier, Ed.D., a policy adviser for the Tennessee State Board of Education. Dr. Sevier has over fifteen years of experience in K-12 education including serving for five years as a physics teacher, five years as a music teacher, and five years as an assistant school administrator. The Board of Sage Leadership Partners is also comprised of three additional voting members. Yi Cui, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Vanderbilt University. Professor Cui's research focuses on networking systems and streaming media technology. He currently holds two patents in distributed streaming media systems and networks. Lance Lott is an Assistant Superintendent, Information Technology & Strategic Planning for Metro Nashville Public Schools. Lance's past positions include serving as the controller and vice president of administration for HCA Health Alliance, the

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Chief Information Officer of Health Trust, and the Founder and Chairman of InfoAdvantage, Inc. (1993-2005). Thomas Ford is Regional Director for Pearson Achievement Solutions and rounds out the voting members of the board. Mr. Ford is an experienced professional trainer and has serviced the needs of major metropolitan urban districts throughout Florida and Georgia for the last eight years. Mr. Ford was selected as teacher of the year for Broward County Florida (1997), one of the country's largest school districts. Our Staff The Executive Director for Foundation Relationships is Mary Catherine Sevier, J.D. Mrs. Sevier has a Bachelors of Arts in English from Converse College (1986) and a Juris Doctorate from Vanderbilt University (1989). Mrs. Sevier served for three years as a corporate attorney before deciding to devote her professional focus to the mission of education and quality teaching in middle and secondary schools. She has thirteen years of experience in teaching the Language Arts, inclusive of six years as a teacher of gifted and talented students (grades 6 – 12). Mrs. Sevier also serves as an independent contractor for the Tennessee Department of Education, providing training to teachers on best teaching practices related to improving student performance on Tennessee's High School Exit Exam in English. The future Managing Partner of Open Source Teaching is Jessica Lewis, Project Manager for the National Center on Performance Incentives, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. Jessica Lewis is a third-year doctoral student at Peabody College (Vanderbilt University). Mrs. Lewis is pursuing her doctorate of education in the area of K-12 Education Leadership and Policy. Her professional interests and efforts are focused on the importance of stimulating greater teaching quality within the education system, with particular attention to enhancing teacher learning opportunities, recruitment and retention mechanisms, and pathways for professional growth. For the past two years, Mrs. Lewis has worked as a legislative policy analyst for the State of Tennessee’s Office of Education Accountability. During her time, she has completed several statewide evaluation projects on a variety of education topics, including alternative schools for high school students, public charter schools, as well as schools on the state’s high priority list for NCLB.

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The Traditional Paradigm of Teaching Defined Roles (1) Student, (2) Teacher, (3) Curriculum, (4) Community, and (5) Traditional Notions of Instruction and Time Curriculum covered within a particular training, course, classroom, or school during a defined scope of mandated time.

A single teacher within a single section of the day. Primarily

Peers Community Expectations

Collaboration networking, and dialogue.

lectures, tests, and homework.

Student Primarily passive, periodically engaged. Many interests and skills under utilized.

Many students arrive in classrooms with a multitude of multi-tasking and knowledge-based skills that are untapped by traditional methods of instruction. The traditional paradigm of teaching and training does not provide the articulated platform for learners to build upon their existing expertise to acquire new knowledge. The goal within the traditional paradigm is to cover the material, regardless of whether a learner’s existing strengths are maximized. Open source teaching begins by allowing individuals to maximize their existing knowledge, interests, and skills as the basis for transformational environments that incorporate the expert knowledge of people, using media-embedded strategies and concepts of open source.

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Open Source Teaching Defined Roles (1) Learner, (2) Open Source Facilitator, (3) New media archive of people with expert knowledge Global Economy

Global Economy People with

expert knowledge

Learners Open source facilitators

Global Economy

Knowledge, & Media Tools

People with

Open source facilitators

People with

expert knowledge Open source facilitators

expert knowledge

Global Economy

People with expert knowledge. Interviews of professors, business professionals, and classroom teachers will not only capture subject-matter expertise and applied knowledge, but also provide insight related to the academic and personal experiences which drive an individual to become an expert. All interviews remain the property of the individual and will not be posted on any media platform without their express written consent. Open source facilitators & teachers. The primary function of open source facilitators is to maximize the capacity of individuals to take full advantage of a digital media archive of people with expert knowledge. Digital media tools. Digital medial tools include all forms of emerging technology and platforms with the capacity to convey digital media. Learners. All learners, ages three through adult.

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Open Source Teaching all subjects, fields, and domains Open source teaching is not confined or defined by the traditional notions of time. The learner is the central focus and the personalization of people with expert knowledge is our bottom line. •

Open to all learners

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Maximizing and adapting to all emerging new media tools for communication.

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A learner’s existing strength’s are used to build the foundation for developing new knowledge and skills.

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The learner is engaged based on their personalized interests and choices.

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Depth is valued substantially over breadth.

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The learner can choose multiple people with expert knowledge.

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Knowledge is conveyed from an expansive selection of diverse experts.

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Knowledge is conveyed using all forms of media- based tools and technology.

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Knowledge is personalized based on the preferences of the learner and supported by open source facilitators.

The benefit of open source teaching is equal and pervasive access to learners of diverse perspectives, interests, and socioeconomic capital. Users will become immersed in new paradigms of learning networks where the deep understanding and application of personalized knowledge is the overwhelming and primary expectation. Created with

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