334
votes

How do organizations that promote brotherhood/sisterhood enhance the University experience, what is their role on campus?

324
votes

What are the financial and the business models for making a vision of openness possible and sustainable?

317
votes

Should all publicly funded research be in the public domain?

303
votes

Will becoming more open threaten the standing of the University (as the traditional view would hold) or would it enhance it?

303
votes

What is the role of University in cyberspace?

297
votes

What is the role of an admissions office in the open university?

276
votes

How do we create open access journals that are fiscally sustainable?

275
votes

How does the internet change models of authority (social, intellectual, hierarchical)? What does this mean for Harvard, the most "authoritative" -- because best known? -- univesity in the world.

274
votes

How should universities use technology to help students become civically engaged?

270
votes

How do we maintain and guarantee the quality of information as openness increases?

263
votes

How are universities similar to and different from for-profit businesses and what are the implications for their rights as owners and users of intellectual property?

259
votes

How do we responsibly put information out on the web?

258
votes

Do extension schools dilute the brand of a university? Should that even matter? If successful, will anyone take the degrees seriously? Will normal graduates resent extension students?

257
votes

What makes universities more trustworthy than the government or for profit corporations? What distinguishes Harvard from either?

256
votes

Should UNIVERSITY be concerned about Poker? Is Poker a game of skill? What is being learned? What are the risks? Poker is a game of bluff. To Bluff: To deceive (an opponent in cards) by a bold bet ... please hit the comment button to follow this thought

255
votes

What has UNIVERSITY to fear from GOOGLE?

250
votes

Is the Google library deal a good one for universities?

247
votes

How is intellectual property defined?

247
votes

Should lectures from the classroom be made available to the world via podcast and web video?

247
votes

What is the significance of the magnificent gathering (pdf) charles ogletree is bringing together this week to rethink and relive Dred Scott? How does the sensibility represented by this gathering connect to the spirit of Marcus Garvey and Stokely Carmichael and the sit-ins in Greensboro and the place of race in American and Jamaican and global law and society? How does race relate to UNIVERSITY? How does UNIVERSITY relate to race?

246
votes

What is the role of cyberspace in university?

246
votes

Should universities be in the business of developing course management systems?

246
votes

How do we fund research to maximize openness, but still make it possible for interested corporations and governments to participate?

245
votes

How will bringing this breadth of specialized knowledge (expressed in an accessible way to any school child) change what academics do to remain legitimate and relevant?

244
votes

How can we make Harvard's course material available to the world, not just those chosen few who can attend in person? How can we harness technology and make distance-learning a richer experience for distance-learners and enrolled students?

237
votes

What do we do to not only allow, but assist librarians, medievalists and Egyptologists, in offering the lessons learned from their idiosyncratic research and knowledge?

234
votes

In an age of disposable computing, information is increasingly prolific. This will flood our own creative process and call for us to re-evaluate our thinking about what is relevant. How can we insure what is relevant is what is recorded?

231
votes

In what way does Harvard University's concept of openness resonate with the ideas of justice and morality?

231
votes

What role(s) could advanced computer usage on the internet play in making colleges and universities more "friendly" to students with physical limitations and/or learning disabilities?

227
votes

Should lectures from the classroom be made available to the world via podcast and web video?

227
votes

What role will (and what role should) the libraries and museums play in defining how open our universities should be?

224
votes

Do we have a responsibility to archive the transitorily available media that exists online? If works lose their economic value (go out of print) before they enter the public domain, how can we ensure that they are preserved for later public domain use?

218
votes

How do we incorporate the full breadth of the humanities and intellectual history for meaningful open discourse in an academic milieu of hyper-specialization and private language?

212
votes

Are universities limiting access to knowledge resources by not digitizing or rationalizing collections?

211
votes

If you were to create a trustworthy "open" organization (or an organization to which you entreat openness) what would this type of organization look like?

211
votes

How do we develop guidelines so that any co-operation with the government or companies ensures that the greater good of open, democratic discourse is served?

210
votes

Is fair use merely a stepchild of the proprietary?

209
votes

How open or closed should Harvard university be? What is the most interesting issue in relation to this?

209
votes

Is it fair to the students that all are given information they must pay to receive - while businesses profit from it?

208
votes

Is Harvard prepared to redefine its place in the changing world? The role and job security of professors? The confidentiality of students and research?

207
votes

How does the university's budget allocation and procurement process create incentives for greater openness?

206
votes

How is the Internet changing health care? and health care law?

206
votes

How should we define openness, particularly in opposition to some concept or definition of closed?

204
votes

Is Harvard's mission noble? Is Harvard's expression fair? How can nobility express itself in a digitally networked world?

201
votes

What role might be played in the is2k7 conference by your in-world audience?

199
votes

How do we develop guidelines so that any co-operation with the government or companies ensures that the greater good of open, democratic discourse is served?

198
votes

How do we fund research to maximize openness, but still make it possible for interested corporations and governments to participate?

195
votes

Will Harvard consciously and productively define its future position on 'openness' or be dragged there by the rest of the world?

194
votes

It is fine and good for Harvard, a multi-billion dollar organization, to advance this vision of openness. But what about the small firms?

191
votes

Is there divinity on the net? And in what ways do we define it?

191
votes

Is the Internet the best tool ever, for learning ? If so, what does it take to get all the teachers,learners and people from all over the planet(from Kindergarden to the University) to convert from old forms of learning/teaching to this new methodology? And what is the best methodology of learners and teachers in Cyberspace? - Arne Oedegard, Norway, arne@arne.no

190
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The dissemination of information is the internet's biggest asset. We can allow people to share whatever they want. But, in the end, the success lies in public interest. How can we turn that interest in our favor?

185
votes

Should there be an Internet School just as there is a Law School, a Divinity School, and a Business School?

182
votes

A large grant from a private organization can tempt the direction of study, possibly toward further closed access to new tech or knowledge. However, how can we fund the generation of knowledge without these large partners?

178
votes

A large grant from a private organization can tempt the direction of study, possibly toward further closed access to new tech or knowledge. However, how can we fund the generation of knowledge without these large partners?

172
votes

Is funding from for profit entities with absolutely no strings attached a bad thing solely because of the appearance of a connection between the for-profit entity's interests and the funds?

171
votes

What role do OpenCourseWare systems play in this endeavor to harness the Internet as an open facilitator and distributor of University knowledge?

166
votes

How do you balance benefits and rights of enrolled/paying students and 'open' university participants?

156
votes

A lot of people think of property rights as against openness and freedom. Can we conceive of a property scheme that promotes freedom?

145
votes

What do you feel about openness in classrooms in the for-profit center and impact of this on government and academic arenas? Who should be responsible for the openness of the net?

144
votes

How should we define openness, particularly in opposition to some concept or definition of closed?

132
votes

Is funding from for profit entities with absolutely no strings attached a bad thing solely because of the appearance of a connection between the for-profit entity's interests and the funds?