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Open and Online:
connections,
community & reality
Catherine Cronin@catherinecronin
&
Sheila McNeill@sheilmcn
#openeducationwkUniversity of Sussex
14th March 2014
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Who’s here?
Are you...
a - Lecturer
b - Learning technologist
c - Librarian
d - Student support
e - Researcher
f - Other / bit of everything
Key questions:
• What makes education ‘open’?
• How are digital identities enacted in open vs. bounded online spaces?
• How are power relationships between educators and students negotiated in different online spaces?
• How might we close the gap between the ideals and the messy realities of being networked learners, educators and researchers?
“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
Quote: Joi Ito Image: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 yobink
about.me/catherinecronin
How open are you?Extensive use of digital technologies
Limited use of digital technologies
Closed
“lone academic”
Open
“digital scholar”
Source: Jenny Mackness #FSLT13
At its best openness is an ethos not a license. It's an approach to teaching and learning that builds a community of learners online and off.
-Jim Groom
Social Networks
Internet
Mobile
Networked Individualism
Source: Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, 2005-2013
2005 2013
Image CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Alec Couros
Networked Teacher
Networked Students too…
Student
Based on image CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Alec Couros
NetworkedEducators
NetworkedStudents
NetworkedEducators
NetworkedStudents
Classroom
Bounded Online Spaces
Open Online Spaces
Flickr CC images: cdessums, infidelic, sholeh!
Individuals with abundant access to ICTs
who have habits of effective use of these
technologies in information-seeking and
problem-solving activities are unable to
make effective use of these technologies
in higher education settings.
David Wiley & John Hilton III (2009)
The Daily Divide
NetworkedEducators
NetworkedStudents
Classroom
Bounded Online Spaces
Open Online Spaces
NetworkedStudents
Classroom
Bounded Online Spaces
Open Online Spaces
NetworkedEducators
#icollab TAGSExplorer(thanks to @mhawksey)153 nodes 756 edges
@CT231 IT Professional Skills#ct231 ct231.wordpress.com#icollab icollab.wordpress.com
“If institutions of learning are going to help learners with the real challenges they face...
[they] will have to shift their focus from imparting curriculum to supporting thenegotiation of productive identities
through landscapes of practices.”
CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 choconancy1
Etienne Wenger (2010)
http://storify.com/sheilmcn/am-i-an-open-practitioner
http://hawksey.info/tagsexplorer/?key=tOpUYKlcSYOY6BPQATeOyvA&sheet=oaw
“ I wonder about Amazon, Google, the NSA and my University both
influencing our interactions with each other through technology and
mining the data to control markets, society even education. I
believe that education is the key to understanding what these
organisations are doing to us, but there is a worry for me around
the content and the feedback being delivered through an
organisation or infrastructure that influence the message.”
David Sherlock : http://paddytherabbit.com/open-education/
The medium and the message: networks and control of data
How do I visualise my institutional network?
https://www.stanford.edu/dept/DLCL/networks/http://www.hastac.org/blogs/michael-widner/2013/05/24/visualizing-networks-faculty
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)
We’d love to hear
your thoughts & questions.