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(Higher) Education Beyond the University
This document discusses the potential of open and connected learning beyond traditional universities. It notes that new technologies and tools allow academics to build online presences and connect with peers and students in new ways. Open educational resources and open online courses are mentioned as part of this transformation. The potential for open sharing of knowledge, resources and ideas is discussed. Challenges to traditional concepts of education and learning are also presented, given that learning can now happen anywhere through open and connected means.
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- 1. (Higher) Education Beyondthe University: The Promise of Open/Connected Learning OCUFA 2012 January 20, 2012 Dr. Alec Couros
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- 12. “Web 2.0 toolsexist 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, Robelia, & Hughes, 2009)
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- 17. knowledge • what is k? • how is k acquired? • how do we know what we know? • why do we know what we know? • what do humans know? • who controls k? • how is k controlled?
- 18. human thought/ideas humanlanguage source code high-level language (e.g. C++, Java, PERL) low-level language (assembly language) code irretrievable machine code (binary)
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- 23. “The shift fromAccess Copyright marks the culmination of years of technology change within Canadian education that has resulted in new ways for professors to disseminate research and educational materials as well as greater reliance by students on the Internet, electronic materials, and portable computers.”
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- 26. “A key totransformation is for the teaching profession to establish innovation networks that capture the spirit and culture of hackers - the passion, the can-do, collective sharing.” ~ Hargreaves, 2003
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- 31. “Open Education isthe simple and powerful idea that the world’s knowledge is a public good and that technology in general and the Worldwide Web in particular provide an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to share, use, and reuse knowledge.” (William & Flora Hewlett Foundation)
- 32. open(ness) (short version) open education free software open source software open educational resources open content open access publication open access courses open teaching open scholarship open accreditation
- 33. 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)
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- 41. David Wiley Then vs Now Analog Digital Tethered Mobile Isolated Connected Generic Personal Consumption Creating @opencontent Closed Open
- 42. David Wiley Education vs Everyday Analog Digital Tethered Mobile Isolated Connected Generic Personal Consumption Creating @opencontent Closed Open
- 43. Why Do StudentsGo to University? Content Degrees Social Life Support Services (Wiley, 2010)
- 44. Why Do StudentsGo to University? PLoS GCT Wikipedia MCSE Google Scholar ACT OCW Content Degrees Flatworld K arXiv.org CNE CCNA Open Courses Facebook Twitter Skype Social Life Support Services MySpace Yahoo! Answers MMOGs Quora ChaCha (Wiley, 2010)
- 45. Informal Learning • “Informal learning is a significant aspect of our learning experience. Formal education no longer comprises the majority of our learning.” • George Siemens http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm
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- 47. Personal Computer toMobile Early Day of PC in Schools Today’s Social/Mobile Reality
- 49. media stats (2010) • 107 trillion emails (89% spam), from 1.04 billion users. • 255 million websites • 1.97 billion Internet users • 152 millions blogs • 600 million Facebook users (sharing 30 billion pieces of content per month) • 2 billion videos watched on Youtube daily • 5 billion photos hosted on Flickr Stats as of January 2011 via Royal Pingdom
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- 64. Network Literacies • “Understanding how networks work is one of the most important literacies of the 21st century.” (2010) Howard Rheingold
- 65. Politics Howard Rheingold http://www.anduro.com/calgary-mayor-race.html
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- 71. “To answer yourquestion, I did use Youtube to learn how to dance. I consider it my ‘main’ teacher.” “10 years ago, street dance was very exclusive, especially rare dances like popping (the one I teach and do). You either had to learn it from a friend that knew it or get VHS tapes which were hard to get. Now with Youtube, anyone, anywhere in the world can learn previously ‘exclusive’ dance styles.”
- 80. social networks • redefine communities, friends, citizenship, identity, presence, privacy, publics, geography. • enable learning, communication, sharing, collaboration, community. • networks form around shared interests & objects.
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- 97. What We Learned • Open access, low-cost, high impact. • Courses become shared, global, learning events. • Students immersed in a greater learning community. • Rethinking of space/interaction (walled gardens, open spaces) • Learning spaces controlled and/or owned by students. • Digital artefacts may allow for deep, critical reflection. • Development of emerging literacies, relevant for other courses. • Pedagogy focused more on connecting & interactions; content important, but secondary. • Development of sustainable, long-term, learning connections.
- 98. “I was ableto 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.”
- 99. “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.”
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- 101. Sharing http://www.flickr.com/photos/dolmansaxlil/4802611949/
- 102. On Sharing ... “it’s about overcoming the inner 2 year old in you that screams mine, mine, it’s mine.” (Wiley, TEDxNYED, 2010)
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- 112. 21st Century Learning • “What happens to traditional concepts of classrooms and teaching when we can now learn anything, anywhere, anytime?” Will Richardson
- 114. Don’t limit achild to your own learning, for he was born in another time. ~Tagore http://couros.ca couros@gmail.com @courosa