Discussions of “open” in education predate and extend far beyond open educational resources (OER). For decades educators have carefully crafted assignments and spaces to help students freely and responsibly connect with public conversations. Alongside OER, discussions of open scholarship emphasize remixing the open knowledge principle at the heart of OER to be at the core of knowledge sharing assignments within courses. In this article we discuss spaces of open scholarship to help education administrators celebrate and draw attention to the work already being done and to help facilitate additional work in the future.
Beyond the Credential Factory: Why Higher Education Must Shift from Management to Flourishing
For decades, higher education leadership has obsessed over “student success” as a purely operational metric. We track retention and graduation rates and postgraduation outcomes with the same linear precision that
Yoshitaka Iwasaki
August 3, 2026
