Slides presented at Open Education Global 2019. This presentation explored some philosophical issues around open education and contains several provocations designed to stimulate debate.

1. The ground below us, the stars above
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Exploring philosophical approaches to Open Education
Markus Deimann
Rob Farrow
Billy Meinke-Lau

2. Idea and Goal of the Session
Diego Delso, Monasterio de San Juan de Duero, Soria, España, 2017-05-26, DD 19, CC BY-SA 4.0

3. FRAMING
REFLECTIONS

4. Education is
broken

5. Statements
Opening up education is conceived mostly of as a technical, legal and
political project.
By opening up education, the underlying philosophy gets fragmented
and isolated leading to a decline of its status and its power.

6. The art of teaching vs.
teaching as a duty

7. Social Justice

9. PROVOCATIONS

10. Provocation 1
Does open education have a philosophy?
If so, what is it?
If not, do we need one? Or several?

11. Provocation 2
Is social justice a necessary element of open education?

12. Provocation 3
How can groups that were traditionally excluded from the conversation be included?

13. Provocation 4
How important is ethics for open education?
Do we share an ethics?

14. Provocation 5
Is there a pedagogy of open education?
Does it have a philosophical foundation?

15. Provocation 6
Does open education need a
discourse ethics?
Do we speak to each other in the
right ways?
CC BY genebrooks monkeys-hear-no-evil-see-no-evil-speak-no-evil1
https://www.flickr.com/photos/75718307@N00/25226333809

16. Provocation 7
When it comes to teaching, do we
need to ‘return to the basics’?
Do we need to think more closely
about the social and political
dimensions of our work?
CC BY-SA Rama Socrates teaching Perikles by Nicolas Guibal

17. Provocation 8
Have we adequately theorised open educational practices?

18. Provocation 9
Is education broken? Do we need to rethink the university?
CC BY-SA Broken Education by Jeffrey Washington
https://web.500px.com/photo/52563852/broken-education-by-jeffery-washington?

19. Provocation 10
Is it the role of the open educator to try and bring about wider social change? Why?

20. Provocation 11
Are we thinking about
technology in the right
way?
How is technology
shaping the experiences
of teachers and learners?
CC BY-SA GREF50VIKI1799
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Terminator-skynet.png

21. Provocation 12
Do we need new forms of open practice that improves outreach and impact into
society as a whole?

22. Thanks for your contributions!
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