Open knowledge institutions : reinventing universities / Lucy Montgomery, John Hartley, Cameron Neylon, Malcolm Gillies, Eve Gray, Carsten Herrmann-Pillath, Chun-Kai (Karl) Huang, Joan Leach, Jason Potts, Xiang Ren, Katherine Skinner, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Katie Wilson.

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Montgomery, Lucy, 1980- [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2021.
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1 online resource (177 pages) : illustrations

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"A short text that challenges universities to address new networked and digital knowledge platforms, networked practices of knowledge production and new systems of knowledge sharing and certification"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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English
Contents
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • The Flight of the Penguin
  • Introduction
  • The Moondyne Manifesto
  • 1. Change
  • An Open World
  • Open Initiatives in Universities
  • Open Knowledge and Conflict
  • Open by Design
  • 2. Knowledge
  • Knowledge and Culture
  • Knowledge as an Economic Good
  • Knowledge in the Public Interest
  • Open and Closed Knowledge Systems
  • Social Knowledge Production
  • 3. Universities
  • Universities as Open Knowledge Institutions
  • Maintaining Open Knowledge Institutions
  • Opting for Openness?
  • Universities as OKIs
  • 4. Diversity
  • What Is the Role of Organizational Diversity?
  • Building Trust
  • The University as a Leader in Societal Diversity
  • 5. Coordination
  • The Principle of Subsidiarity
  • Knowledge Functions
  • Coordination and Indicators
  • Key Issues of Coordination
  • 6. Communication
  • Communication Is Central
  • Publishing Open Knowledge
  • Mediating Open Knowledge
  • Collecting Open Knowledge
  • Rebundling Open Knowledge
  • 7. Policy
  • Policy and Governance Mechanisms
  • Policy Design
  • Policy Principles
  • Policy in Context
  • 8. Indicators
  • Can We Evaluate Openness?
  • Challenges in Evaluation
  • Issues for Framework and Indicator Design
  • How Do Universities Change? Toward a Framework
  • Signals of Openness
  • A Proposal for an Evaluation Framework
  • Institutionalizing Open Knowledge
  • A Forward-Looking and Open Framework
  • 9 Action
  • Ways Forward: Technical, Political, or Both?
  • Ways to Proceed
  • Leading the Way
  • Key Terms
  • References
  • Further Reading
  • Author Bios
  • Index
ISBN
  • 0-262-36515-4
  • 0-262-36516-2
OCLC
1255632986
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