Name: Congratulations Open Education! So What Will You Do After Graduation?
Start: 2026-10-07T13:40:00-0400
End: 2026-10-07T14:10:00-0400

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Congratulations Open Education! So What Will You Do After Graduation?

Wednesday October 7, 2026 1:40pm - 2:10pm EDT

6 DR4

ID: 33754

Imagine open education as a wonderful being that we’ve brought into the world, guided and worried about and celebrated as it’s grown up. What might be possible if open education graduates from school and now makes its way into the wider world? How does it carry forward and build upon the lessons learned, inspirations gained, relationships grown through its nurturing time in school?Through many years of innovations, explorations, and collaborative commitments, the open education movement has established a solid footing in school-based learning, especially as a means to increase educational equity through student cost savings and more inclusive pedagogies. It’s clearly earned a spot on the Honor Roll.Alongside this foundation in academic settings, we can glimpse at dramatically expanded impact for open education in the more fluid and expansive realms of lifelong learning. What we’ve learned about creating, adapting, and using open educational resources can be enabling values for more effective, engaging and inclusive lifelong learning that reaches beyond the traditional confines of schools.In this session, we’ll look across the threshold beyond academic settings, into where open education is already meeting people where they are in informal knowledge spaces. We’ll consider how lifelong learning is evolving in social media and YouTube, Wikipedia, journalism, and community organizations. We’ll highlight some of the promising ways that open education is already showing up here through the experiences of MIT OpenCourseWare and other open knowledge programs, and take a comparative look at the methods and metrics for operating in academic vs non-academic learning settings. A concluding generative discussion will invite participants to explore together how the open education community might engage more broadly in informal lifelong learning with curiosity and intention.

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Curt Newton

Director, MIT OpenCourseWare, MIT Open Learning

Curt Newton leads MIT OpenCourseWare in supporting millions of global learners and educators every year with freely shared materials from over 2,500 MIT courses. He joined OpenCourseWare in 2004, shortly after its launch, captivated by the promise of open education, and worked as... Read More →

Wednesday October 7, 2026 1:40pm - 2:10pm EDT
6 DR4 MIT Samberg Conference Center, 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge MA 02139 USA

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Track Hacking the Open Ecosystem and Praxis for the Public Good

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