open education competition

[chris macrae]

http://whyopenedmatters.org/

max prize 25 k  winners announced july 18 2012

 

judges

 

Davis Guggenheim

Davis Guggenheim is an Academy Award-winning American film director and producer. His credits as a producer and director include Training Day, The Shield, Alias, 24, NYPD Blue, ER, Deadwood, and Party of Five and the documentaries An Inconvenient Truth and Waiting for 'Superman'. Since 2006, Guggenheim is the only filmmaker to release three different documentaries that were ranked within the top 100 highest-grossing documentaries of all time (An Inconvenient Truth, It Might Get Loud, and Waiting for 'Superman'). Davis is on the Board of Directors of Creative Commons.

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Nina Paley

Nina Paley is the creator of the animated musical feature film Sita Sings the Blues, which has screened in over 150 film festivals and won over 35 international awards including the Annecy Grand Crystal, The IFFLA Grand Jury Prize, and a Gotham Award. Her adventures in our broken copyright system led her to copyLeft her film, and join QuestionCopyright.org as Artist-in-Residence. Prior to becoming an animator Nina was a syndicated cartoonist; she is now re-releasing all her old comics under a Creative Commons Share-Alike license. A 2006 Guggenheim Fellow, Nina is currently producing a series of animated shorts about intellectual freedom called Minute Memes.

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Liz Dwyer

Liz Dwyer is the education editor at GOOD magazine. She has written on race, parenting and education for several national media outlets, and was named one of Parenting Magazine's top bloggers of 2010. Dwyer previously worked as the education ambassador for the $20 million dollar Pepsi Refresh Project and as a social media consultant for several companies. She has over fifteen years of experience in education, including teaching grade school in both Guangzhou, China and Compton, California, and worked on Teach For America’s Los Angeles staff, where she supervised first and second-year K-12 teachers in the Compton, Lynwood and Los Angeles Unified school districts. She serves on the board of singer John Legend’s “Show Me Ed Reform” campaign, actress Karyn Parson's Sweet Blackberry foundation, and runs marathons in her spare time.

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Anya Kamenetz

Anya Kamenetz is a staff writer for Fast Company magazine and a columnist for Tribune Media. Kamenetz has written books including Generation Debt (2006) and DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education (2010). Her writing has also appeared in New York Magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Salon, The Nation, the The Forward newspaper, and Vegetarian Times.

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James Franco

James Franco is an actor, artist, and filmmaker. Franco has done both dramatic and comedic work in projects and has appeared in an eclectic range of films since the 2000s, ranging from period to contemporary pieces, and from major Hollywood productions to less publicized indie films, as well as fantasy films to biopics and soap operas. His performance in 127 Hours earned him a nomination for an Academy Award, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award. Franco currently teaches a class at New York University about transferring poetry to film.

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Angela Lin

Angela Lin oversees all things education at YouTube, including content strategy, partnerships and original programming. Her work reaches across the learning spectrum from K12 to higher ed to lifelong learning, featuring educational content that ranges from purely academic to wildly inspirational. Prior to joining YouTube, Angela was a strategy consultant specializing in digital media and entertainment and served as a film programmer at the Los Angeles Film Festival. Angela began her career as a Page at NBC where she worked on SNL, the Today Show, and the Olympics. She has also worked on productions for the Travel Channel in Peru, TVB in Hong Kong, and the Shanghai Grand Theatre in China. Angela graduated with honors in economics from Harvard College and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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Mark Surman

Mark Surman is the Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation, with a focus on inventing new ways to promote an open, participatory Internet.  Prior to work at Mozilla, he was an open philanthropy fellow at the Shuttleworth Foundation in South Africa, where he invented new ways to apply open source thinking to social innovation. Mark’s been a community technology activist for almost 20 years, and was the founding director of telecentre.org, a $26 million effort to network community technology activists in countries around the world.

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