Open (Media) Education:

Condition critical

Recent Disruptive Media

Social media revolution

Structured Content Un-bundled

The media Landscape – disrupted

Media – becoming more connected/distributed, mobile, prosumer

• Digital–connected media – prosumers

• Digital natives – un-knowing fish in water

• Agglomeration - connected Neo-liberalism

• The content wall - the end of info. scarcity

• New modes of engagement (hot & cold)

• Attention scarcity/economies

• Disaggregating content

• Values based on reducing costs, Lofi,

ease of access, continuous

exchange/distribution traffic.

Contextual factors

The learning landscape - disrupted

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

Disrupted scholarship

Connected/distributed, mobile, prosumer media are changing content creation

and publishing; but we are not

Research and Publication – disrupted

Publishing

The university

Money

Academic /

researcher

content

An unsustainable business model ?

Public sector / funding

The academic community

content

Money

Money

content

content

Students

• Restricted connection/media – VLEs

• Digital immigrants – Ltd literacy/fluency

• De-differentiation - Globalisation and

Neo-liberalism

• The content wall Vs the finite library/book

• Old modes of engagement (cold)

• Attention deficits / dis-orders

• HE Values – difficulty, high cost, selective

entry localised authority, restricted access /

high cost information.

Higher Education

Changing our mind-sets: teaching

Michael Wesch A vision of students today

Avatars, hyper-intelligences software

personalities, Big data analytics,

Adaptive technologies.

Knewton, “ every education leader needs an adaptive learning infrastructure”,

Straighter-Line,

2-U

E-learning as A fantasy of pure

instrumental rationality within H.E

• One eLearning ideal – Neo, a version of our perfect Global student in that he has no real culture (he’s a Cypher, a battery - a fee) -insturmental learning is (melo)dramatically staged when the Neo literally ‘jacks-in’ to the hyperreal information network (The Matrix) and instantly “knows Kung Fu” . This is perfect, performative assimilation.

• Our role - faithful technician

Disruption of:

Media forms, industry structures, business models

Research, Scholarship and publication

Teaching and Learning

Discussions to address challenge of:

Piracy, creative commons, copy-left, share-ware

mash-up, co-creation, crowd-sourcing

Co-created research Open Access, peer-to-peer

collaborative writing, open-editable editions

OER/OEP, collaborative learning, peer-mentoring

/leaning, connectivist learning

The 21st Century academy?

Established

educational/ publishing

and media platforms

(e.g. books lectures )

will not disappear.

Nor will expertise or

authority.

What will change is

that they will be valued

differently by different

audiences - think vinyl

and live performance

‘Book’ writer/ Educator /curator ?

Lecturer ?

OPEN Education

CONNECTED Learning

21st century the curator

As media educators

scholars, students and

practitioners we might

hope that our role

becomes something like

that of the curator

‘arranging’ the flows of

information into new

outcomes within the

collective production of

knowledge

A very new skill set

Coventry Open

Media Classes

the 21st century universityan openmedia policy

tacticalsustainableengagedvisiblecollaborative

Approach

http://disruptivemedia.org.uk/open-media-2/

#AdobeEdu13

picbod.org

picbod.org

picbod.org

Changing our practices – open Classes

• Key Ideas – Give your content away – emphasize generative experience

– Openly collaborate and share – price of piracy vs price of obscurity

– problem/challenge-led

– iteration, incrementalism

– Always experimental /beta mode – editable

– Open-ness = learning to learn

– Accept you are not the source

– Fail Fast Fail Often / accept that this is learning

– Offer a clear difference/value and magnify it

– Find the fans – cultivate referral

– Build networks, be trustworthy

Impact

1 day event 35 participants

1,000,000+

listens ,

Impact

Things we have begun to learn

• How radical is this gift exchange? – is it disruptive back?

• New ideas become important - trust, exposure, risk, reciprocity,

managed vulnerability

• Free labour dilemmas – can only the well-resourced afford to be

Open?

• The power of price - fear of free

• How we can develop digitally ‘professional/fluent’ digital natives;

• New models/ ways of working are disruptive and time expensive How

• radically new pedagogies and radically new relationships with/offers

to, our communities are only now developing

Thank you. QUESTIONS ??????