Coventry Open Media Classes

Changing our mind-sets: the media Landscape

Media – becoming more connected/distributed, mobile, prosumer

Changing our mind-sets: teaching

Students are connected/distributed, mobile, prosumer; but we are not

Changing our mind-sets: scholarship

Connected/distributed, mobile, prosumer media are changing content creation and publishing; but we are not

Changing our mind-sets: research and Publication

Publishing

The university

Money

Academic / researcher

content

An unsustainable business model ?

Public sector / funding

The academic community

content

Money

Money

content

content

Aim : a (media)

scholarship and practice sustainable in the 21st Century

Changing our practices: spaces, technologies, visibility

Changing our practices: research , scholarship publication

HOW WE BECAME METADATA

Changing our practices – open Classes

Changing our practices – open Classes

Means: the connected,

expanded - hybrid class

Changed practices: open Classes – effects

Some lessons we are trying to learn:

• open is just a mode of operating not an end in itself;

• reducing barriers between your audiences and your content works out economically – the

piracy/obscurity paradox ;

• work out where the real value of what you do lies

– we offer a unique hub that’s connected and curated

– we offer an intensive collaborative learning experience

– we offer high level certification

• go where the fish swim ( use what is being used) / don’t build “it” (e.g. VLEs) hoping ‘they will

come’;

• don’t assume the fish know about the water – students aren’t digitally ‘literate’, they’re digital

natives;

• disruption doesn’t just happen where/how you intend;

• new (business) models and re-purposing/re-versionning/ unbundling are our next steps

Thank you.