open education and digital identities

Open Education and Digital Identities

Catherine CroninIT Research Seminar, NUI Galway

06 February 2014

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Open and networked educator

“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

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The higher education sector has reached a critical point where it must address the innovations that have changed the way its learners, and the rest of society, seek and engage with knowledge.

http://www.nmc.org/publications

2005 2013

Source: Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, 2005-2013

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Networked Publics

danah boyd@zephoriadanah.org

space constructed through

networked technologies

the imagined collective which emerges

(people + tech + practice)

Social Networks

InternetMobile

Networked Individualism

Networked

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PUBLICS

INDIVIDUALISM

IDENTITIES

LEARNING? TEACHING?

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Networked Teacher

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Networked Students too…

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NetworkedEducators

NetworkedStudents

Classroom

Bounded Online Spaces

Open Online Spaces

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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

NetworkedEducators

NetworkedStudents

Classroom

Bounded Online Spaces

Open Online Spaces

networks openness identity

As studies become more contextualised it seems that the real lesson of online identity is not that it transforms identity but that it makes us more aware that offline identity was already more multiple, culturally contingent and contextual than we had appreciated.

Danny Miller (2013)

Future Identities report

http://www.bis.gov.uk/foresight/our-work/policy-futures/identity

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Digital Identities – multiple aspects

Bonnie Stewart@bonstewarttheory.cribchronicles.com

Key Selves of Networked Publics:• Performative Self• Quantified Self• Participatory Self• Asynchronous Self• Augmented Self• Surveiled Self• Branded Self

“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.”

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Etienne Wenger (2010)

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NetworkedEducators

NetworkedStudents

Classroom

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)

Created vs. ascribed identities

Development of new identities (social, pedagogical, civic, professional)

Crossing boundaries (temporal & spatial as well as institution, education sector, geography, culture, power level)

Power relationships between educators and students

open education and digital identity:issues to explore

Thank you!Catherine Cronin

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Facer, Keri & Selwyn, Neil (2010). Social networking: Key messages from the research. In R. Sharpe, H. Beetham & S. de Freitas (Eds.) Rethinking Learning For A Digital Age.

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Ito, J. (2011, December 5). In an open-source society, innovating by the seat of our pants. The New York Times.

Miller, Danny (2013). Future Identities report. Foresight Project, DR2.

Pew Research Center (2013) Internet and American Life Project

Rainie, Lee & Wellman, Barry (2012). Networked: The new social operating system. MIT Press.

Stewart, Bonnie (2013). Massiveness + openness = new literacies of participation? MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, 9(2).

Wenger, Etienne (2010) Knowledgeability in Landscapes of Practice SRHE Conference 2010. In deFreitas & Jameson, Eds. (2012) The e-Learning Reader

Wiley, David & Hilton III, John (2009). Openness, dynamic specialization, and the disaggregated future of higher education. The International Review Of Research In Open And Distance Learning, 10(5).