Learning in the open: Networked student identities
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As students in conventional academic settings extend their learning into participatory, performative networked environments, what benefits and conflicts do they encounter?
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- 1. Learning in the Open: Networked Student Identities University of Prince Edward Island February 2013 Bonnie Stewart
- 2. What is a networked learner? h"p://www.flickr.com/photos/rofi/2647699204/
- 3. Networked Identities • Engaged within networked publics (boyd, 2011) and digital sociality (Thompson & Cupples, 2008) • Participatory (Jenkins, 2006) • Performative (Butler, 1990) • Producing & consuming content within networks = produsage (Bruns, 2007) / prosumption (Ritzer, 2010) • Partial membership in multiple networks, less reliance on belonging structures of settled groups (Wellman, 2011) • Convergence between online & offline (McEwan & Mease, 2013)
- 4. Higher Ed = change on multiple axes public funding knowledge scarcity closed open neoliberal corporatism knowledge abundance
- 5. Newly emerging species: open, public learner/scholars
- 7. Networks & the Academy: trends in ways of knowing
- 8. Openness as practice • No techno-utopia or determinism • Long-term immersion & work • Not just broadcasting but engagement • Vulnerability • Context collapse • Blurring of public & private
- 9. My local cohort • 2 active students in my year • 9 active Ph.D students total • 2 other local friends pursuing Ph.Ds from other institutions
- 10. My cohort on Twitter scale = greater access, diversity, visibility… also increased noise & time. learners, teachers, professors, writers – of books I love & research I cite ! – bloggers, geeks, friends, parents, students
- 11. Benefits as thinker: just-in-time emergent, choral conversation
- 12. Benefits as learner & scholar: access, engagement, profile
- 13. Challenges: Legitimacy Practices Academic Learning Networked Learning product-focused process-focused institutionally-directed self-directed mastery participation bounded by time/space always accessible hierarchical ties peer-to-peer ties plagiarism crowdsourcing authority in role authority in reputation audience = teacher audience = world