(higher) education beyond the university
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Keynote presentation for #OCUFA, January 20, 2012.TRANSCRIPT
OCUFA 2012January 20, 2012Dr. Alec Couros
(Higher) Education Beyond the University:The Promise of Open/Connected Learning
me
The Blur
http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/3974469907/
“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 Doctrine
journey(quick version)
Knowledge
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
@jonmott
“The shift from Access Copyright marks the culmination of years of technology change
within Canadian education that has resulted in new ways for professors to disseminate
research and educational materials as well as greater reliance by students on the Internet,
electronic materials, and portable computers.”
Collaboration
“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
STOP: Twitter Demo
Openness
“Open Education is the simple and powerful idea that the world’s knowledge is a public good and that technology in general and
the Worldwide Web in particular provide an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to
share, use, and reuse knowledge.”(William & Flora Hewlett Foundation)
open source software
open contentopen access publication
open accreditation
open education
open access coursesopen teaching
free software
open educational resources
open(ness)(short version)
open scholarship
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)
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core changes
David Wiley
@opencontent
Then vs Now
Analog Digital
Tethered Mobile
Isolated Connected
Generic Personal
Consumption Creating
Closed Open
David Wiley
@opencontent
Education vs Everyday
Analog Digital
Tethered Mobile
Isolated Connected
Generic Personal
Consumption Creating
Closed Open
Why Do Students Go to University?
Content
Social Life
Degrees
Support Services
(Wiley, 2010)
Why Do Students Go to University?
Content
Support ServicesSocial Life
Degrees
WikipediaPLoS
OCW
Open Courses
Google Scholar
arXiv.orgFlatworld K
MCSEGCT
ACT
CCNACNE
MMOGsMySpace
Yahoo! AnswersQuora
Skype
(Wiley, 2010)
ChaCha
George Siemens
• “Informal learning is a significant aspect of our learning experience. Formal education no longer comprises the majority of our learning.”
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Informal Learning
http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm
social media
Personal Computer to Mobile
Early Day of PC in Schools Today’s Social/Mobile Reality
Stats as of January 2011 via Royal Pingdom
media stats (2010)
• 107 trillion emails (89% spam), from 1.04 billion users.
• 255 million websites
• 1.97 billion Internet users
• 152 millions blogs
• 600 million Facebook users (sharing 30 billion pieces of content per month)
• 2 billion videos watched on Youtube daily
• 5 billion photos hosted on Flickr
affordances
Blogs & Wikis
Simple Blogging
Microblogging
Social Bookmarking
Info/File Management
Social Networking
Social Curation
Howard Rheingold
• “Understanding how networks work is one of the most important literacies of the 21st century.” (2010)
Network Literacies
Howard Rheingold
http://www.anduro.com/calgary-mayor-race.html
Politics
Services
Reputation
Leveraging Networks
“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.”
• redefine communities, friends, citizenship, identity, presence, privacy, publics, geography.
• enable learning, communication, sharing, collaboration, community.
• networks form around shared interests & objects.
social networks
open courses
#eci831
open teaching
network mentors
non-credit students
course trailers
student-controlled spaces
aggregation
microblogging
shared resources
daily social digest
What We Learned• Open access, low-cost, high impact.
• Courses become shared, global, learning events.
• Students immersed in a greater learning community.
• Rethinking of space/interaction (walled gardens, open spaces)
• Learning spaces controlled and/or owned by students.
• Digital artefacts may allow for deep, critical reflection.
• Development of emerging literacies, relevant for other courses.
• Pedagogy focused more on connecting & interactions; content important, but secondary.
• Development of sustainable, long-term, learning connections.
“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.”
“The course ... has been the most profound pd experience I’ve ever had. It forced me to critique & review my practice. I never knew how important social networks
were. Now, I couldn’t be a teacher without being connected. It’s drastically changed my view of education.”
big ideas to consider
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dolmansaxlil/4802611949/
Sharing
“it’s about overcoming the inner 2 year old in
you that screams mine, mine, it’s mine.”
(Wiley, TEDxNYED, 2010)
On Sharing ...
Openness
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bombeador/4396467701/sizes/l/in/photostream/
Private Public
Closed Open
Relationships
@shareski
conclusion
Will Richardson
• “What happens to traditional concepts of classrooms and teaching when we can now learn anything, anywhere, anytime?”
21st Century Learning
http://[email protected]
@courosa
Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born
in another time. ~Tagore