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OPENNESS IN HIGHER EDUCATION: Choosing Our Paths
Catherine Cronin @catherinecronin NUI Galway#tlfest15 12th June 2015
@catherinecronin
#tlfest15
slideshare.net/cicronin
Social Networks
InternetMobile
Networked Individualism
Rainie, L. & Wellman, B.(2012) Networked: The New Social Operating System
2005 2013
Source: Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, 2005-2013
Image: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Alec Couros
Networked Teacher
What is your
NETWORK?(digital & otherwise)
about.me/catherinecronin
Participatory Culture:
Henry Jenkins@henryjenkinshenryjenkins.org
low barriers to artistic expression & civic engagement
strong support for creating & sharing
social connection
members believe their contributions matter
informal mentorship
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Twitter photo: @HelenORahilly
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@joecaslin joecaslin.com
#m
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@joecaslin joecaslin.com
#m
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@hendinarts
#m
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@anniewestdotcom
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trendsmap.com/v2/xm4X/w
multimodal
multimedia ✓ voice / choice
networked ✓ topic / content
social ✓ genre / tone
purposeful ✓ space / place
collaborative ✓ time / duration
agentic
Participatory Cultureliteracy practices
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a divide between formal and informal learning:
students navigate the dissonance between these – WITH or WITHOUT our support
Evaluating online behaviours | A visitors and residents approach
24
V&R Framework
15/07/2014
(White and Le Cornu 2011)
#vandrVisitors and Residents resources http://goo.gl/vxUMRD
by Lynne Connaway, David White & Donna Lanclos http://www.slideshare.net/oclcr/evaluating-online-behaviours-a-visitors-and-residents-approach
…furtive thinking and behaviour around open-web resources such as Wikipedia masks the level of use of non-traditional resources and also masks the methods learners use to increase their understanding of subjects, creating what we have called The Learning Black Market. The point at which learning takes place is often not being discussed because either explicitly or implicitly learners are being told by their educational intuitions or perceive that the educational institutions view that their information-seeking practices are not legitimate.
David White, Lynn S. Connaway, Donna Lanclos, Erin M. Hood & Carrie Vass
Evaluating digital services: a Visitors and Residents approach, JISC InfoNet
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Seamus Heaney Lightenings viii - video by Eoghan Kidney
vimeo.com/4831035
3
contributionsto the dialogue
#1 develop, model & embed
digital literacies
#2 choose openwhere possible & appropriate
#3 connect across boundaries
NetworkedEducators
NetworkedStudents
Physical Spaces
Bounded Online Spaces
Open Online Spaces
NetworkedEducators
NetworkedStudents
Physical Spaces
Bounded Online Spaces
Open Online Spaces
Image: CC BY-SA 2.0 Catherine Cronin
A learning space
not
THE learning space
so…. HOW?
WHAT would
YOUlike to create?
@CT231 #ct231
We’re now looking at the ‘tag-team model’ of education: the projects never end, as there is always a cohort to carry on, and lead into the next group, and when they overlap that’s great – that’s where the genuine collaboration happens. Traditionally, we deliver modules/courses, neatly chunked into 12 weeks, with units of assessment, leading to grades etc. and that’s the way things are (generally) done. I’m not saying scrap all of that, but I do think that modules are best served as springboards to other things.
Increasingly, students are connecting across levels and cohorts through Twitter and now we have ex-students getting together with current students, undergrads coming to postgrad classes (and vice versa) as they’ve connected online and have a genuine interest in getting involved in other groups/further curricula outside of their taught modules.”
#icollab
Helen Keegan (2012)@heloukee
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#icollab TAGSExplorerthanks to @mhawksey
Individuals, students and educators, can be nodes in a network.
Groups and learning communities also can be nodes, e.g. via #hashtags.
I learned a lot more about writing to the public. Before this I would have been less likely to express my views to a group of people online whereas now I would not have a problem in doing so.
By posting publicly it opened up our world to other academics or people who are just interested in the topic... I don’t think anyone would have thought that the author of one of the works we were researching would get involved.
#studentvoice
openness...
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Before studying it, I used Facebook and Twitter mainly just for keeping in contact with people, but since have discovered they both have much more to offer.
They are places to discover new information and boost your knowledge. That both education and socialising can be rolled into one.
#studentvoice
social networks...
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#1 develop, model & embed
digital literacies
#2 choose openwhere possible & appropriate
#3 connect across boundaries
#1 develop, model & embed
digital literacies
Image: CC BY-ND Bryan Mathers
Ref: White, Connaway, Lanclos, Hood & VassEvaluating digital services: a Visitors and Residents approach, JISC InfoNet
by Helen Beetham http://digitalcapability.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2015/06/11/revisiting-digital-capability-for-2015/
Image: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Frederic Poirot
digital identity
Image CC BY 2.0 vramek
#2 choose openwhere possible & appropriate
Image: CC BY-SA 2.0 Marcel Oosterwijk
…’open’ signals a broad, de-centralized constellation of practices that skirt the institutional structures and roles by which formal learning has been organized for generations.
– Bonnie Stewart (2015)
Image: CC BY-SA 2.0 Marcel Oosterwijk
OEP (Open Educational
Practices)
OER (Open Educational
Resources)
Free
Open Admission (e.g. Open University)
DEFINITIONS of ‘OPEN’
Image: CC BY-SA 2.0 Marcel Oosterwijk
OEP (Open Educational
Practices)
OER (Open Educational
Resources)
Free
Open Admission (e.g. Open University)
DEFINITIONS of ‘OPEN’
Culture
Values
Practices
Activities
LEVELS of OPENNESS
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Gardner Campbell – Ecologies of Yearning
youtube.com/watch?v=kIzA4ItynYw
Openness [is] process, not product after all. It’s not so much the what we learn but the how and the who with and the why we do so… it’s not so much about “open” as an adjective to describe education; rather it’s “opening” as a verb to describe what we must do. What we want students, learners, all of us, to do.
Audrey Watters (2012)
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Reclaim Open Learning “Showcases innovation that brings together the
best of truly open, online and networked learning in the wilds of the Internet, with the expertise
represented by institutions of higher education.”
http://open.media.mit.edu/
http://open.media.mit.edu/
Reclaim Open Learning Challenge 2013
digilitleic.com
#DigiLitLeic
phonar.org
@phonar
ds106.us
#ds106
jaaga.in
@jaagarnaut
femtechnet.org
@FemTechNet
Slide: CC-BY-SA catherinecronin Image: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 yobink
#3 connect across boundaries
“I don’t think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process [of] establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity.”
– Joi Ito @joi
Slide: CC-BY-SA catherinecronin Image: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 yobink
NetworkedEducators
NetworkedStudents
Physical Spaces
Bounded Online Spaces
Open Online Spaces
Learners need to practice and experiment with different ways of enacting their identities, and adopt subject positions through different social technologies and media.
These opportunities can only be supported by academic staff who are themselves engaged in digital practices and questioning their own relationship with knowledge.
- Keri Facer & Neil Selwyn (2010)
Bianca Ní Ghrógáin, RIP
@bnighrogain
rangbianca.com
Mary Mulvihill, RIP
@ingeniousie
ingeniousireland.ie
Dialogue cannot exist in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people. –
Freire
Thank you!
Catherine Cronin@catherinecronin
about.me/catherinecronin
slideshare.net/cicronin
Image: CC BY 2.0 visualpanic
Recommended:
@helenbeetham digital literacies; digital capabilities
@dajbelshaw digital & web literacies@josiefraser #DigiLitLeic project@daveowhite #vandr Visitors & Residents@donnalanclos #vandr Visitors & Residents@gconole digital identity; learning design@bonstewart digital identity; social media@veletsianos networked & open scholarship@mweller open education@oerresearchhub open education (OER & OEP)@mizuko connected learning@jimgroom #ds106; Reclaim Your Domain@audreywatters critical issues in
education/edtech
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Cronin, Catherine (2014). Navigating the marvellous. Medium blog post & ALT Conference keynote.
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Rainie, Lee & Wellman, Barry (2012). Networked: The new social operating system. MIT Press.
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