Developing students (and staff) as scavengers

Developing students (and staff) as content scavengers Nick Pearce @drnickpearce n.a.pearce@durham.a

about menew ‘open’old ‘open’what is open?staff as scavengers2 case studiesA thought about student scavengersopen-ish education

• Sociologist – with a pinch of STS• E-science, digital scholarship• Now teach sociology + anthropology – Foundation centre• CSAP YouTube project• SCORE fellow

new ‘open’•New technologies•Contrast withold/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

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?

Reading pack and the CLA• Mashup of content• Constraints on content and reach• Popular with students• New technology brings exciting possibilities• What would open licensing add? – for my students? – for me?

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

Students as scavengers • From YT project • Encourage existing practice • ‘clickolage’ • But how? • VLE blog was a disa

Pinterest• V. new social media site• Visual sharing• ‘Open’ by ignoring copyright• Starting to be used in education

Questions?• Should I encourage student scavengers?• How best to do this?• What are the issues? – Digital literacy? – Tools? – Rights?

Discussion@drnickpearcehttp://www.slideshare.net/pearcenhttp://digitalscholar.wordpress.com/http://durham.academia.edu/NickPearceOr even…n.a.pearce@durham.ac.uk

Developing students (and staff) as scavengers

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