Beyond good and evil: Open-ish Educational Practice

Beyond Good and Evil: Open-ish Educational Practice Nick Pearce Durham University

about me
new ‘open’
old ‘open’
what is open?
2 case studies
open-ish education

Sociologist – with a pinch of STS
E-science, digital scholarship
Now teach sociology + anthropology
Foundation centre
SCORE fellow – although what I say here is in personal capacity!

new ‘open’
New technologies
Contrast with old/closed
Institutional level
Reveals problems
Limited adoption

old ‘open’
Education and scholarship have always been about sharing
New technologies become old, but persist

What is open?
Making something available to everybody
Is this an ideal?
Not everybody will ever have access
Or interest
Or capacity

Reading pack and the CLA
Mashup of content
Constraints on content and reach
Popular with students
New technology brings exciting possibilities

Powerpoint, BB and Slideshare
New feature of BB9 of slideshare ‘mashup’
Already use for conference slides
Sex, Death and Monkeys

What are the implications for making lecture slides publicly available?
Pros
Increased prominence
PR
ego-boost
Cons
Fiddly licensing
fixation with numbers
Standalone vs lecture?

Open-ish Education
If open is an ideal, could open-ish be desirable?
Mixture of closed and open

Discussion
@drnickpearce
http://www.slideshare.net/pearcen
http://digitalscholar.wordpress.com/
http://durham.academia.edu/NickPearce
Or even…
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Beyond good and evil: Open-ish Educational Practice

by Nick Pearce on Jan 05, 2012

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