This document discusses producing students without boundaries through open educational practices called "edupunk". It describes some examples of open educational resources (OERs) created at the University of Lincoln and UCBC to take students beyond traditional essays. These OERs introduced different disciplines and contributed to visual criminology. The document advocates for the benefits of open educational practices and references some ready-made alternative assignment ideas available through the "Community Challenge" theme on the website "AnyModule.com". It clarifies that edupunk and anarchogogy are not about a lack of structure or rigour but creating opportunities for openness.

1. Producing students without
boundaries through degrees
of edupunk
Phil Johnson & Craig Hammond
University Centre at Blackburn
College.
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3. Producing students
• ‘Student as producer’ makes learners reflect
on the purposes of higher education.
• ‘Chemistry FM’ from the University of
Lincoln.
• ‘What is Crime?’ from UCBC (youTube) and
“Reframing assessments for the University of
the Future” (Enhancing Learning in the Social
Sciences journal, 2011).

4. Without boundaries
• ‘What is Crime?’ took Criminology students
away from exclusively ‘producing’ 2,500 word
essays.
• Introduced different disciplines into their
studies and contributed to a much needed
“visual criminology”.
• Appropriate for contemporary HE and “the
edgeless university”?

6. The open revolution?
• In 2010-11 we participated in the "Cascading Social
Sciences Open Educational Resources" project funded
by JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) and
undertaken by C-SAP (the Centre for
Sociology, Anthropology and Politics).
• OERs are:
“teaching, learning and research materials in any
medium, digital or otherwise, that reside in the public
domain or have been released under an open license that
permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution
by others with no or limited restrictions. ” (2012 Paris OER
Declaration)

9. MITx 2012

10. http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/2595497078/

13. Benefits from OEP (open educational practices)
Tutorial: Using a search engine
Learning Outcome: A clear understanding of the
role of the critical factors in the system
Summary: through preparing their own account
of using a search engine, to demonstrate
the role of the critical factors, using the
Library guidelines; presenting it to their
group; defending it against questions and
comments; and revising their account in the awater cycleprocess
Tutorial: On system or
The
light of the tutor’s summary of the
Learning Outcome: A clear understanding of the
discussion
role of the critical factors in the system
Summary: through preparing their own account
animation of the water cycle, to
of the system/process, to demonstrate the
demonstrate the factors, using the
role of the criticalrole of the critical factors,
using the provided; presenting it to their
resourcesOER cycle; presenting it to their
cycle;
group; defending it against questions and
comments; and revising their animation in
OER the light of the tutor’s summary of the
repository discussion

14. ‘AnyModule.com’
• Could the ‘Community Challenge’ theme apply
to your course?
• Interested in the receipt of a ‘readymade’
alternative assignment?
• Flexible interpretations of regulations can be
achieved.

15. ‘Community challenge’ assignments have already been written
for:
• SS11005 Research Skills (FdA Criminology)
• SS16508 Research Methods (FdA Hosptality Management/FdA
Hospitality Management/Events Management)
• SS11013 The Reflective Practioner (FdA Criminology)
• SD 2201 Research Project (FdA Health & Personal Training, FdA
Sports Coaching & FdA Sports Development)
• SS26507 Research Project (FdA Hosptality Management/FdA
Hospitality Management/Events Management)
• BS21116 Research Project (FdSc Computing: Business
Information Systems; Networking and Forensics; Software
Development)
• SS21112 Research Project (FdA Criminology)
• SS21111 Work Based Learning (FdA Criminology)
• SS30002 Evaluative Methods in Criminology (BA Criminology)

19. Edupunk & anarchogogy isn’t …

23. Creative Commons Licences
• Wellcome Images (Refs: C0029040; B0003352; B0006066)
- http://images.wellcome.ac.uk/indexplus/page/Prices.html
• Odilon Redon (Cactus Man)
– http://www.odilon-redon.org/Cactus-Man.html
• Wrecking ball (Paul Goyette)
– http://www.flickr.com/photos/pgoyette/110076905/in/set-
72057594053783405/
• Odilon Redon (The Eye…)
– http://www.odilon-redon.org/The-Eye-Like-A-Strange-Balloon-Mounts-
Toward-Infinity.html
• Mandelbrotian Fractal Set (JCB Walsh)
– http://www.flickr.com/photos/jcbwalsh/3470075246/sizes/o/in/photostre
am/
• Mandelbrot Fractal Beetle (Flickrnospam)
– http://www.flickr.com/photos/10912969@N03/2046593119/

24. References
• Laurillard, D. (2011) Supporting the teacher as
learner. Available from:
http://www.slideshare.net/dianalaurillard/oer
cascade-blackburn-dl [9 December 2011].
• Wheeler, S. (2012) Numerous presentations
on slideshare.