My keynote presentation for the CNIE 2010 conference in Saint John, New Brunswick on May 18, 2010. The presentation was titled "Knock Down the Walls: Designing for Open/Networked Learning"

1. Knock Down
the Walls
Designing 4
Open/Networked
Learning
Dr. Alec Couros
CNIE 2010
Saint John, NB
May 18, 2010

2. Who is this guy?

4. “Web 2.0 tools exist that might allow academics
to reflect and reimagine what they do as
scholars. Such tools might positively affect --
even transform - research, teaching, and service
responsibilities - only if scholars choose to
build serious academic lives online, presenting
semi-public selves and becoming invested in and
connected to the work of their peers and
students.” (Greenhow, Robella, & Hughes, 2009)

5. The Blur

6. my blog, my hub

7. content sharing

8. copyleft

9. video sharing

10. social reading

11. open cv

12. microblogging

13. photo sharing

14. open journal

15. open teaching

16. Open Doctrine?

17. “People don’t buy what you do,
they buy why you do it.”
(Simon Sinek)

18. shift

19. David Wiley
Then vs Now
Analog Digital
Tethered Mobile
Isolated Connected
Generic Personal
Consumption Creating
@opencontent
Closed Open

20. David Wiley
Education vs Everyday
Analog Digital
Tethered Mobile
Isolated Connected
Generic Personal
Consumption Creating
@opencontent
Closed Open

21. @jonmott

22. David Weinberger
The Web is “a
world of pure
connection, free
of the arbitrary
constraints of
matter, distance
and time.”
@dweinberger

24. Thinning Walls
Private Public
Closed Open

25. New Roles

26. enablers

27. “Free” Tools

28. Creativity

29. New Possibilities

30. Realtime Collaboration

31. Free/Open Content
“describes any kind of creative work in a
format that explicitly allows copying and
modifying of its information by anyone,
not exclusively by a closed organization,
firm, or individual. (wikipedia)

32. Abundance

33. Beyond Institution

35. Disruptive Creativity

36. Everyone Can Be a Teacher

37. Open Access
“The aim of the open access movement is to make
scientific and scholarly literature openly accessible
to all users free of charge.” (open-access.net)
open access is beginning to expand to conferences,
courses, and other educational events

38. Synchronous PD

39. Learning Communities

40. “Nearly Now” PD

41. Ubiquity

42. Projections/Focus

43. personalization

44. Connected Reality

45. quick stats (2009)
• 90 trillion emails sent annually from
1.4 billion email users
• 234 million websites
• 1.73 billion Internet users
• 126 millions blogs
• 350 million Facebook users
• 4 billion images on Flickr
• 1 billion Youtube videos served daily.
Stats as of Jan 22/10 via Royal Pingdom

46. Stats as of March 17/10 via Mashable

47. Each technology
creates a new
environment.
The effects of media
come from their form
not their content.

48. Mediating Experiences

49. Mediating Experiences

50. locks

51. parents as pirates

52. personalizing the institution

53. the reality

55. community

56. Geographic Communities

57. Mario Couros

58. Networked Communities

61. danah boyd
Teens are not connecting in
the ways we fear. But, we need
to pay attention to:
•Properties: persistence,
replicability, searchability,
scalability, (de)locatability.
•Dynamics: invisible
audiences, collapsed contexts,
blurring of public & private @zephoria
spaces

62. Michael Wesch
• Inspired by McLuhan’s
“We shape our tools and
thereafter our tools shape
us.”
• Youtube & other social
media mitigate “connection
without constraint”. In
many cases this leaves to
@mwesch “tremendously deep
communities”.

63. “heroes for our mediated culture”

68. in practice

69. connecting educators

70. Grade 1 - Expert Visits
@kathycassidy

71. Grade 1 - Transparent Learning
@kathycassidy

72. Grade 5 - Choir on Youtube
ps22chorus.blogspot.com

73. Grade 6 - Global Connections
@zbpipe

74. Highschool - Youtube Channel
@amhwrites

75. Grade 10 - TEDx Project
@christianlong

77. designing 4 openness

78. personal learning networks

79. if you build it ...

80. non-credit students

81. social affordance

82. distributed conversations

83. culture of sharing

84. global classroom

85. invisible colleges

86. professional identities

87. disruptive education

88. “I was able to go out
and learn throughout
the entire week, the
entire year, and I’m
still learning with
everyone.”
“The best part of the
course is that it’s not
ending. With the
connections we’ve built,
it never has to end.”

89. “The course ... has been the most profound pd
experience I’ve ever had. It forced me to
critique & review my practice. I never knew how
important social networks were. Now, I couldn’t
be a teacher without being connected. It’s
drastically changed my view of education.”

90. *this* is not going away
social media provides
engagement/motivation
incredible possibilities
for teaching and learning
development of meaningful
learning communities
good teaching should
be shared & transparent

91. web: couros.ca
twitter: courosa
couros@gmail.com