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Learning in the Public

SphereThe Pedagogy of LMSs and MOOCs

Mike GriffithTulane @Minima

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Describe your LMS in one Word(other than its name)

#EDUlms

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What is the Public Sphere?

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The public sphere is a separate realm from thestate, the formal economy, and the family. Private

interests, such as monetary gain, and stateinterests in administration and order, narrowlyconstrued, are not the primary concerns of the

public sphere. In the public sphere, privateindividuals, rather than agents of the state, cometogether to participate as citizens

!-Habermas

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Is this the Public Sphere?

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What about this?

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Various Publics

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Various public spheres compete for legitimacyand for resources—both material and discursive

 —that will allow them to organize, appear in thewider public, and make claims of (or resist) the

dominant public and the state.!

-Elizabeth Breese

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The rise of millions of fragmented chat roomsacross the world instead lead to the

fragmentation of large but politically focusedmass audiences into a huge number of isolated

public issues.!

-Habermas

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Let’s see some results

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Counterpublics

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We are all using the same communications media

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multiple, non-hierarchical entry and exit points

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Programme as “Meaningful Discouse”

encodingmeaning

structures1

Frameworks of knowledgeRelations of ProductionTechnical

Infrastructure

decodingmeaning

structures 2

Frameworks of knowledgeRelations of Production

Technical Infrastructure

Stuart Hall - Encoding/Decoding

Remix - Lessig et al.

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Educational Public Sphere?

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Social media platforms are thus not inauguratinga new public sphere, but they are communicative

instruments that formalize and inscribe aheretofore informal discourse that was always

already part of the public sphere, hencereconfiguring our norms for sociality and social

conduct.!

-José van Dijck 

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Describe MOOCs in one tweet(without using massive, open, online or course)

#EDUMOOCS

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...disclosure of information via blogs or

platforms is often a public strategy.!-José van Dijck 

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At this point we are attempting tointerject an alien discourse into an

already extant media

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Let’s see some more results

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Availability vs. Understanding

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Distributed Technological PracticeVs.

Centralized Pedagogical Environments

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Scattershot

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Civil Society (social practice)as

Pedagogical Environment

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By civil society I refer to a network of associations

independent of the state whose members, throughsocial interactions that balance conflict and 

consensus, seek to regulate themselves in waysconsistent with a valuation of difference.

!-Gerard Hauser“Civil Society...”

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Our Models

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Our Reality

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We are still very near the start of this exploration

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We are entering a world in which we all willhave to acquire new knowledge and skills on

an almost continuous basis.!-Brown and Adler“Minds on Fire...”

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-Mott and Wiley“Open for Learning”

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Affiliations!Expressions!CollaborativeProblem Solving!Circulations

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Revolution?

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These elements of early capitalistcommercial relations, that is, the traffic in

commodities and news, manifested theirrevolutionary power only in the

mercantilist phase in whichsimultaneously with the modern state, the

national and territorial economiesassumed their shapes.

-Habermas“Public Sphere”

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Evidence from Academic Technology

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Our Pilot

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I believe they are basically thesame

Everything was easier to find and we

could actually work on projects withgroups through the platform.

I like how it is easier to access grades,multiple ways to contact teachers (email, chat,

disscussion boards), and how it allows easycommunication to students

Collaboration 

Familiarity

Communication

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Are MOOCs the Answer?

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Our Future?

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What’s the Solution?What strategies do you use to make learning social?

#EDUSOCTECH

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Understanding Augmentation Network 

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Bring the Outside In?

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Make the Inside Matter

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Q&A

Mike Griffith@Minimamgriffi@tulane.edu