break down the walls
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Presentation given at the University of Victoria, June 13, 2012.TRANSCRIPT
How Social Networks & Openness AreTransforming Teaching & Learning
Dr. Alec Couros - June 13, 2012University of Victoria
Break Down the Walls
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The Blur
Visualizing Learning
“Web 2.0 tools exist that might allow academics to reflect and reimagine what they do as scholars. Such tools might
positively affect -- even transform - research, teaching, and service responsibilities - only if scholars choose to
build serious academic lives online, presenting semi-public selves and becoming invested in and connected to the work of their peers and students.” (Greenhow,
Robelia, & Hughes, 2009)
Open Teaching
Open Tenure/Promotion App.
Open Journal
“The Open Scholar is someone who makes their intellectual processes digitally visible and who invites and encourages ongoing criticism of their work and secondary
uses of any or all parts of it -- at any stage of its development.” (Burton, G., 2009)
@simonsinek
“People don’t buy what you do. They buy why you
do it.” (2010)
early inspirations
knowledge
• what is k?
• how is k acquired?
• how do we know what we know?
• why do we know what we know?
• what do humans know?
• who controls k?
• how is k controlled?
human thought/ideas
human language
high-level language(e.g. C++, Java, PERL)
low-level language(assembly language)
machine code(binary)
source code
code irretrievable
“Linux is subversive. Who would have thought even five years ago that a world-class operating system could
coalesce as if by magic out of part-time hacking by several thousand
developers scattered all over the planet, connected by only tenuous
strands of the Internet.”(Raymond, 1997)
@esrtweet
“Gift cultures are adaptations not to scarcity but to abundance .... Abundance makes command
relationships difficult to sustain and exchange relationships an almost pointless game. In gift
cultures, social status is determined not by what you control, but by what you give
away. (1997)
changes
media/content convergence
“60 hours of video are uploaded every minute, or one hour of video is
uploaded to Youtube every second.”
“Over 4 billion videos are viewed a day.”
“Over 800 million unique users visit Youtube every month.”
“More video is uploaded to YouTube in one month that the 3 major US networks
created in 60 years.”
Free/Open Content“describes any kind of creative work in a format that explicitly allows copying and
modifying of its information by anyone, not exclusively by a closed organization, firm, or
individual.” (Wikipedia)
@drtonywagner
“Today knowledge is free. It’s like air, it’s like water...
There’s no competitive advantage in knowing
more than the person next to you. The world doesn’t care what you know. What the world cares about is
what you can do with what you know.” (2012)
open access
“Publishing is not evolving. Publishing is going away. Because the word “publishing” means a cadre of
professionals who are taking on the incredible difficulty and complexity and expense of making
something public. That’s not a job anymore. That’s a button. There a button that says “publish”, and when
you press it, it’s done.” (Shirky, C.., 2012)
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networks
Howard Rheingold
• “Understanding how networks work is one of the most important literacies of the 21st century.” (2010)
Network Literacies
Everyday Networks
http://www.anduro.com/calgary-mayor-race.html
Politics
Community
Crowdsourcing
Remix
Kutiman-Thru-you - 01 - Mother of All Funk Chordshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tprMEs-zfQA
“Dear Photograph:Thank you for everything we had.”
Meaningful Projects
@shareski
“The gene has it’s cultural analog too: the meme. In cultural evolution, a meme is a
replicator and propagator - an idea, a fashion, a chain letter, or a conspiracy
theory. On a bad day, a meme is a virus”
Lowenstein, 1999
memes
http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/3601144842/sizes/l/in/photostream/
“...for all the money, tax revenue and intelligence that Western governments have at their disposal (they) seemingly cannot get their heads around a simple enough concept that wherever one
is, someone is watching and recording.”
Zack Whitaker
changes in learning
MYOB Learning
Objectivism
Group growth
(Schwier)(Leinonen)
Individual growth
CognitivismConstructivism
Social Learning
shifts in edtech
@jonmott
“A key to transformation is for the teaching profession to establish innovation networks that capture the spirit and culture of hackers -
the passion, the can-do, collective sharing.”
~ Hargreaves, 2003
“To answer your question, I did use Youtube to learn how to dance. I
consider it my ‘main’ teacher.”
“10 years ago, street dance was very exclusive, especially rare dances like popping
(the one I teach and do). You either had to learn it from a friend that knew it or get VHS
tapes which were hard to get. Now with Youtube, anyone, anywhere in the world can
learn previously ‘exclusive’ dance styles.”
Nick
MattKirk
how are you making learning visible?
how are you contributing to the learning of others?
Private Public
Closed Open
Thinning Walls
#eci831
open teaching
network mentors
non-credit students
student-controlled spaces
aggregation
microblogging
shared resources
social curation
“I was able to go out and learn throughout the entire week, the entire year, and I’m still
learning with everyone.”
“The best part of the course is that it’s not ending. With the connections we’ve built, it
never has to end.”
What We Learned
• Open access, low-cost, high impact.
• Courses become shared, global, learning events.
• Students immersed in a greater learning community.
• Value in open spaces vs. walled gardens.
• Learning spaces controlled and/or owned by students.
• Pedagogy focused on connecting & interactions.
• Development of sustainable, long-term, learning connections.
conclusion
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@barrywellman
“The developed world is in the midst of a paradigm shift both in the ways in
which people and institutions are connected.
It is a shift from being bound up in homogenous “little boxes” to surfing life through diffuse, variegated
social networks.” (2002)
fixed to place
fixed to person
“The person has become the portal.”
Wellman (2002)
http://[email protected]
@courosa
Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born
in another time. ~Tagore
extras
@dlnorman
@giuliaforsythe
@noiseprofessor
@noiseprofessor
@noiseprofessor
@timlauer
