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.

• Superior document: The MIT Press
• VerfasserIn: Montgomery, Lucy, 1980-
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, Massachusetts : : The MIT Press,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: MIT Press
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (177 pages) :; illustrations

"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.

Table of 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