Excellence & The Wild Rumpus: What Networks Mean for Higher Ed
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1. The document discusses how networks and an abundance of information are changing higher education, moving it away from traditional institutional structures towards more networked and collaborative practices. 2. It argues that networked practices focus more on participation over products, peer-to-peer connections over hierarchies, and crowdsourcing over individual authorship. 3. While some view these changes as threatening, the document advocates embracing networks and abundance to rethink notions of excellence in scholarship and open up new opportunities for connections beyond institutional walls.
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- 1. EXCELLENCE & THE WILD RUMPUS: What Networks Mean for Higher Ed Bonnie Stewart" University of Prince Edward Island" Ohio Innovate 2016" @bonstewart #InnovateOSU" https://www.flickr.com/photos/geraldbrazell/6389453857"
- 2. photo credit: Rachel Peters" A STORY
- 8. scholarship" what people had for lunch" 1. Abundance 2. Networks 3. Excellence" NETWORKED PRACTICE"
- 9. INSTITUTIONS" • Product-focused" • Mastery" • Time/space-bound" • Hierarchical ties" • Authorship/ plagiarism" • Audience = teacher" & NETWORKS: " • Process-focused" • Participation" • Always accessible" • Peer-to-peer ties" • Crowdsourcing" • Audience = world" "
- 11. SOMETIMES CHANGE IS… SUSPICIOUS. " https://www.flickr.com/photos/lightfilters/4405147437"
- 13. Scale."
- 17. NOT ALL CHANGE IS MONSTROUS."
- 18. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/94223817176624744/?from_navigate=true" Not all suits (or roles) fit forever."
- 19. scholarship" what people had for lunch" “THE WILD RUMPUS”
- 22. We will NOT be sailing home to someone who loves us best of all" " In fact, many of us will never achieve non-contingent status in the academy"
- 23. So. Sad Story. You can’t go home again. Let’s all go cry in our coffee? L"
- 26. UNPACKING THE RUMPUS:" https://www.flickr.com/photos/nycgal/92762924" • Abundance" • Networked practice" • Excellence & change"
- 28. "For the first time in human history, two related propositions are true. One, it no longer is possible to store within the human brain all of the information that a human needs. " Second, it no longer is necessary to store within the human brain all of the information that humans need. " Education needs to be geared toward the handling of data rather than the accumulation of data.”" " - Context for Communication, Berlo, 1975"
- 29. Structure of Abundance = NETWORKS" https://plus.google.com/+DaveGray/posts/CQRVeKEsUvF? pid=5751686447270321954&oid=117373186752666867801"
- 31. h#ps://www.flickr.com/photos/ooohoooh/1350774613/ Networks are not just for consuming, but connecting"
- 32. Many-to-many communications allow us to create ourselves as network nodes, forming webs of visible (& invisible) connections"
- 34. In institutional structures, an individual has a role." " In a networked culture, an individual" has an identity, which it is his/her job to differentiate."
- 36. NOT SO RUMPUS."
- 37. Connecting beyond the walls of our towers" https://www.flickr.com/photos/danieldslee/5523383653"
- 38. Price of admission = public identity !
- 40. Good Lord. I think I’ll just opt out."
- 41. https://www.flickr.com/photos/vince2012/14557320666/" There is no real “out.” The gates are open.
- 42. https://www.flickr.com/photos/piper/19904408/" "Abundance:" You can’t avoid getting wet." You never get ALL the water. "
- 44. …& taming our wild things." “We’ll eat you up we love you so.”
- 45. But what about excellence? " https://www.flickr.com/photos/peter_schauer/2869277129/"
- 46. http://www.flickr.com/photos/8113246@N02/7932198032 Academia & social media: both reputational economies"
- 47. Those within the academy become very skilled at judging the stuff of reputations. Where has the person’s work been published, what claims of priority in discovery have they established, how often have they been cited, how and where reviewed, what prizes won, what institutional ties earned, what organizations led? Willinsky, 2010"
- 49. Networked practices = scholarship" • Scholarship of discovery" • Scholarship of integration" • Scholarship of application" • Scholarship of teaching" ! (Boyer, 1990)"
- 51. AND THE PAPERS WANT TO KNOW WHOSE SHIRT YOU WEAR https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Euskal_Museoa_branding_irons.jpg"
- 53. ESPECIALLY THE MORE WE’RE INVESTED OR ALIGNED WITH THE STATUS QUO."
- 55. Some will come from scholarly sources:"
- 56. https://www.flickr.com/photos/kwl/2510060169/" Still value & beauty in familiar forms
- 57. Some won’t."
- 59. or new voices."
- 60. or community."
- 61. or criticism."
- 62. …or care."
- 63. • What kinds of professional conversations do you want access to? With whom? From where?" • What audiences do you want for your students?" • What do you – and your students – have to offer that isn’t being seen right now?"
- 65. LET THE WILD RUMPUS of abundance & networks & excellence BEGIN!"
- 66. Tell me how your story goes from here." https://www.flickr.com/photos/jondoe_264/8127841237" @bonstewart" bstewart@upei.ca"