the battle for open & the open landscape
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Mapping the open landscape
Open Access
OER
MOOCs
Open Educational Practice
Open Data
Open Citizenship
Formalised vs experimental
Stable vs Fragile
Common elements
Enabled by network
Reallocation of resources
Practical benefits of open
Sharing as default
Moral argument
Flirting with the mainstream
The mainstream has different challenges
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So, why a battle?
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Hijacking ‘open’
Open as in…
Owning ‘open’
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The hybrid Open Access swindle
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Double dipping
MOOCs & the Silicon Valley Narrative
Education is broken!
Education is ripe for disruption!
MOOCs are technological
solution!
Outsiders with new ideas!
An irresistible narrative
“The failure of MOOCs to disrupt higher education has nothing to do with the quality of the courses themselves, many of which are quite good and getting better. Colleges are holding technology at bay because the only thing MOOCs provide is access to world-class professors at an unbeatable price.”
Revolution is demanded
Loss of terms
Here be Trolls
Open vsClosed
MOOCs as revolution vsMOOCs as irrelevant
Commercial vsState
Online vsFace to Face
False dichotomies
Longue durée
David Roup: evolution is “long periods of boredom interrupted occasionally by
panic.”
OER
OEP
Open Access
Open data
MOOC
The open ed map
(Or maybe it’s an open ed gang)
Locating oneself in the landscape
What barriers does your institution place?
• Open..– Knowledge– Access– Courses– Content– Practice– Data– Research– Government– Pedagogy– Scholarship
At least one of these is relevant to you…
