Toru Iiyoshi
Professor, Center for the Promotion of Excellence in Higher Education, Kyoto University (2012-), Visiting Professor, Center for Graduate Education Initiative, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (2010-), Research Institute for Independent Higher Education, Association of Private Universities of Japan, (2010-).
Senior Strategist, Office of Educational Innovation and Technology, MIT (2008-2011). Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, University of Tokyo (2007-2010). Senior Scholar & Director, Knowledge Media Laboratory, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (1999-2008).
Once we start openly sharing educational tools and resources, and the wealth of teaching experience that comes from effectively using these assets, I anticipate three dramatic improvements over time: increased quality of tools and resources, more effective use, and greater individual and collective pedagogical knowledge. Ideally, all will occur simultaneously, combining local classroom innovations and learned lessons through global knowledge sharing. This effort is truly exciting, since this worldwide, ever-growing work can be a collaborative effort by the creators and users of these tools and resources for a spectrum of purposes: from improving teaching and learning in a single classroom to creating necessary educational capacity for nation building.
Opportunity is knocking. Will we open the door?
