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Learning in the open: Networked student identities
The document discusses the concept of networked learners and their identities, emphasizing engagement in digital and participatory environments. It highlights the trends and changes in higher education, including the shift towards openness, diversity, and increased access while acknowledging associated challenges. The author advocates for a more self-directed, peer-to-peer approach in learning, contrasting it with traditional institutional frameworks.
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- 1. Learning in theOpen: Networked Student Identities University of Prince Edward Island February 2013 Bonnie Stewart
- 2. What is anetworked learner? h"p://www.flickr.com/photos/rofi/2647699204/
- 3. Networked Identities • Engagedwithin networked publics (boyd, 2011) and digital sociality (Thompson & Cupples, 2008) • Participatory (Jenkins, 2006) • Performative (Butler, 1990) • Producing & consuming content within networks = produsage (Bruns, 2007) / prosumption (Ritzer, 2010) • Partial membership in multiple networks, less reliance on belonging structures of settled groups (Wellman, 2011) • Convergence between online & offline (McEwan & Mease, 2013)
- 4. Higher Ed =change on multiple axes public funding knowledge scarcity closed open neoliberal corporatism knowledge abundance
- 5. Newly emerging species: open,public learner/scholars
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- 7. Networks & theAcademy: trends in ways of knowing
- 8. Openness as practice • No techno-utopia or determinism • Long-term immersion & work • Not just broadcasting but engagement • Vulnerability • Context collapse • Blurring of public & private
- 9. My local cohort • 2 active students in my year • 9 active Ph.D students total • 2 other local friends pursuing Ph.Ds from other institutions
- 10. My cohort onTwitter scale = greater access, diversity, visibility… also increased noise & time. learners, teachers, professors, writers – of books I love & research I cite ! – bloggers, geeks, friends, parents, students
- 11. Benefits as thinker: just-in-timeemergent, choral conversation
- 12. Benefits as learner& scholar: access, engagement, profile
- 13. Challenges: Legitimacy Practices Academic Learning Networked Learning product-focused process-focused institutionally-directed self-directed mastery participation bounded by time/space always accessible hierarchical ties peer-to-peer ties plagiarism crowdsourcing authority in role authority in reputation audience = teacher audience = world
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