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Open Square

May 1 2015

Open Education, Open University, Open Degrees, Open Titles

The power of the system is to give people illusion of hope, like the upper mobility, which as a slow death which began to a slow death in the 1980s culminated in the Economic Meltdown of 2008. The study presented by Gilovich et al, in Perspectives on Psychological Science: Building a More Mobile-one Income Quintile at a Time, one thing can be say, because shift from industrial economies to services economy, credential in education, and because nor just knowledge in the ivy or high end universities, are special, the opposite the institutions become echo chambers, where the educate elite are  expose to the supposedly knowledge taken rain over the society power, then committed the same mistakes over again and again.   

The gate keepers though SATs or legacy spots, will never let other to enter to gain into the corrupted system. While the upper classes decry about the welfare system, they benefit from them from contacts to have access taxes monies as VP US Biden in name of his grant father, Socialism for the Wealthy and Capitalism for the rest, the value of this education is access of taxes payers’ wealth, and contact. 

There is no accident the receivers of  this wealth in 1980s MIT receive in grant from US government 100 Million USD (The University-Military Connection by Howard J Ehrlich Vacant Lots press, 1985) , and the Middle of the 2000´s was 1 Billion USD , or John Hopkin University haven access to National Health Institute close to 418, 940, 258 USD (955 awards in 2013 Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News), moreover, in case of the NHI, the study by Yang et al, A bibliometric analysis of academic publications and NIH funding in Journal of Informetrics, 2013 7:318-324, where similar research, with the same qualifications and background, what difference to obtain the grant was the color of the skin, since, the researcher know each other in the Academy Circles and conferences, the projected their own prejudices and bias.

The control of the credential accreditation is using accreditation bodies take for example Middle States Associations of Colleges and Schools, first is recognize by the US secretary of Education and the advisory group are selected individuals, from started the intuitions originated the body and select this chosen individuals, in many are from the business community, they defined the accreditation, in the more extreme, the American Medical Association, after the civil war, surgeon and Medical profession, give a license (the FDA give the License to prescribed drugs after  AMA give the title, this is the only government involve-drug prescription is control), and to give legitimize, the association gave the Doctor Title (the same model has been applied to Attorneys), based on passing a set of test, where in Europe, the system is the state who confer the title as recommendation of the Educational instated, in both case and US case is more problematic, because the standard is define by individual interest where in case of Europe, the politicians need to confront an electoral.

Some will say we do not need validation, form the structure system, which is right, but we need an alternative in Ontario Canada, the province provided: The Ontario Federation of Alternatives Schools can be use a model, for everyone involves, not the political class, or the economic elite. Education models like Anarchist Free University, Toronto Canada, run by using facilitators, and model of degrees especially higher degrees like the model by University of Senoda, where is based on two book chapters, or some German higher education to Publish a research paper, in General Publication required 3 people review, and moreover, the people who review are impartial, not direct contact with the author, since there is a way to write a research paper, show the objective the capacity to created new body of knowledge, in many case because institutions and Professors have invested their own economic interest (some cases they try to stop the publication).

I am not talking about patents or companies (since their value is based if they can attract investment or the products), but permanent source of income from Foundations or Taxes, so can maintain their position—another model is based on discussion groups reading specific knowledge, like a seminar and publish the body of knowledge as group or individual. 

Especially the Open Source Journal, are under scrutiny, the paper upon publication shows the caliber of Scholarship, meaning anyone with some experience can reproduce the body of work exposed in the paper, while the Title should never be objective, the experience in creating knowledge should be the experience.  

Because the science and technology development, two import exposures are need one History tell us who we are and Biology, where we come from to add, Philosophy, while the US tradition is Analytic and Continental as more descriptive, but exposure of Human evolution of the perfection of the abstraction to more ground in Human experience, the same can be say the Art, in Antiquity what was consider value the Gods and the Lords to slowly with Golden Age of the Nederland, where every day found his beauty—show by the Impressionist, to the Literature, where Czar Russia thinking was capital punishment, but Chekov, Dostoevsky, took Literature into Philosophical essay, where Spinoza and Montaingne essays, Zola essay in Jacusse, where previous to the Genocide Committed by Sunni Ottoman Caliphate and German Nazi, where Flaubert in Madabe Bovary (demystify the human experience) and Elliot, in Daniel Deronda humanize the Outsider created by Christianity and Islam—the Jew as Human with his history as necessary to study Greeks- Indian, Japan and China civilization, to have curiosity besides ourselves, or immediate surround—to see the other.