Slides for a short presentation on open leadership for OCLMOOC, an open, online course for educators in Alberta, Canada. Archive of this session on Blackboard Collaborate can be found here: http://oclmooc.wordpress.com/archives-of-oclmooc-sessions/

1. Open Leadership for
OCLMOOC
Christina Hendricks
Philosophy, University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC
Oct 16, 2014

2. What does “open” mean?
• Accessible
• Revisable
• Reusable,
redistributable
• Transparent
• Collaborative
• Shared
See also:
http://www.opencontent.org/definition/
http://opendefinition.org/od/

3. What could open leadership be?
• Write on the white board…

4. Transparency
Don Wettrick: “transparency”—show your work!
http://is.gd/ecrZE5
E.g., post teaching
materials publicly
and with an open
license
• Benefits/drawba
cks?

5. Transparency
Blog about what you’re doing and why, how it’s
going
• Talk about the failures too, what’s not going
well, and what you’re doing about it
• Potential problems with blogging about
failures when students are involved
– My blog post about this:
http://blogs.ubc.ca/chendricks/2011/10/20/the-ethics-
of-blogging-about-teaching-and-learning/

6. Transparency
Engage in public discussions
• Twitter chats; Twitter generally
• Other social media (e.g., Google Plus,
Facebook)
• Comment on blogs
• Participate in open, online courses

7. Collaboration
Maureen Crawford:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynCK2bPYDqI&f
eature=youtu.be
• Flattening hierarchies
• Listening carefully
• Knowing when it’s
appropriate to offer
what you have to
say

8. Collaboration
• Confidence: that you have something useful to
offer
• Humility: you are not the only one who does
• Encouragement:
– Look out for those who are talking, but not
receiving responses—find ways to draw them
further into the conversation
– Point out strengths in what others have to say
– Criticize in a way that invites dialogue

9. Courage
Openness is risky:
• Criticism, disagreement;
loss of respect; bullying
• Potential adverse effects
on your work, your
position
• Others may take
advantage of the work
you’ve made open

10. Courage
Courage required:
• To be honest about what you really think
• To reveal your weaknesses and ask for help
• To believe that more people will benefit from
your open work than will take advantage (or
that it’s worth it even if the latter happens)
• To stand up when others are being mistreated
• To believe that your network will come to your
aid if you are mistreated

11. Thank you!
Christina Hendricks:
• http://blogs.ubc.ca/chendricks (blog)
• http://blogs.ubc.ca/christinahendricks
(website)
• @clhendricksbc (Twitter)