This document discusses the ethics of open scholarship and digital teaching. It addresses issues like open access/data, OERs, and learning analytics. While openness provides benefits like reuse and cost savings, it also presents risks if student data is not properly protected or people feel excluded. The document considers whether academics have an ethical obligation to use open resources and approaches, or if traditional closed systems still have value. It concludes that new digital tools require considering ethics in both adopting and not adopting open approaches.
Explores the idea that the openness approach has broken through to mainstream practice, but that the battle around the direction open education will take is just beginning.
Open and online: connections, community and reality Catherine Cronin
Slides for Open Education Week webinar by Catherine Cronin & Sheila McNeill, hosted by the University of Sussex.
Webinar recording available here: https://connectpro.sussex.ac.uk/p96542464/
Emerging Practices in Open Online Learning EnvironmentsGeorge Veletsianos
In this talk, I describe a number of emerging practices associated with online learning, networked scholarship, and MOOCs. I bring together results from 3 upcoming studies to describe how online learning is an emerging practice, how the field is becoming more interdisciplinary, how learning analytics are becoming more pervasive, and how various experiences and practices (e.g., notetaking and the scheduling of online learning to fit adult life's realities) evade learning analytics methods.
Embracing uncertainty: collaboration as learningDave Cormier
Keynote for AACUSS conference at UPEI. Great audience feedback... some of it was included in the uploaded powerpoint. Did some work breaking out the cynefin framework.
Presentation features rhizomatic stuff focused on a student services audience.
Teacher Education, K-12 Education and the Massive Open Online Course Dave Cormier
Presentation at the 44th Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE) Conference by Dave Cormier and Bonnie Stewart. A review of MOOCs from their coining in 2008 to practical uses in the field of Higher Education. Discusses MOOC narratives of solutionism, disruption and unbundling. Includes MOOCs as open access, open accreditation, Niche MOOCs and important trends on the horizon.
Explores the idea that the openness approach has broken through to mainstream practice, but that the battle around the direction open education will take is just beginning.
Open and online: connections, community and reality Catherine Cronin
Slides for Open Education Week webinar by Catherine Cronin & Sheila McNeill, hosted by the University of Sussex.
Webinar recording available here: https://connectpro.sussex.ac.uk/p96542464/
Emerging Practices in Open Online Learning EnvironmentsGeorge Veletsianos
In this talk, I describe a number of emerging practices associated with online learning, networked scholarship, and MOOCs. I bring together results from 3 upcoming studies to describe how online learning is an emerging practice, how the field is becoming more interdisciplinary, how learning analytics are becoming more pervasive, and how various experiences and practices (e.g., notetaking and the scheduling of online learning to fit adult life's realities) evade learning analytics methods.
Embracing uncertainty: collaboration as learningDave Cormier
Keynote for AACUSS conference at UPEI. Great audience feedback... some of it was included in the uploaded powerpoint. Did some work breaking out the cynefin framework.
Presentation features rhizomatic stuff focused on a student services audience.
Teacher Education, K-12 Education and the Massive Open Online Course Dave Cormier
Presentation at the 44th Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE) Conference by Dave Cormier and Bonnie Stewart. A review of MOOCs from their coining in 2008 to practical uses in the field of Higher Education. Discusses MOOC narratives of solutionism, disruption and unbundling. Includes MOOCs as open access, open accreditation, Niche MOOCs and important trends on the horizon.
The university as a hackerspace - Joss Winn - Jisc Digital Festival 2014Jisc
The University of Lincoln has explored opportunities as diverse as the potential of open data, developed a research data infrastructure, nurtured student developers and developed a research-led approach to teaching known as the student as producer, to name a few. However, these projects and initiatives have not been throw away experiments. Rather, they have helped inform the University’s new Digital Education Strategy aimed at meeting the needs and improving the experience of its students and researchers at a time when the idea and purpose of the university is being challenged.
This provides an overview of some of the innovative projects and initiatives the University of Lincoln has undertaken in the past few years and how universities can explore approaches to teaching and research support, while helping inform the institutional mission and strategy. It will also provide an opportunity for managers, learning technologists and teachers to discuss the potential for such an approach at their institution and to share relevant experiences and ideas.
This is an update of an earlier presentation so is part repeat, but reflects my own growing in understanding of open scholarship over the last year or so.
With apologies to the great twentieth century philosopher, Don Henley, this talk looks back to the reasons we did learn and looks forward to some of the ways technology might help us to learn for the future.
The Non-Disposable Assignment: Enhancing Personalised Learning - Session 2Michael Paskevicius
Slides from our second meeting of three from a course redesign series on creating non-disposable assignments.
As advertised:
Do you want to offer students an opportunity to bring their passions, personal interests, and individual strengths into their coursework?
How can we design assessment which students feel connected to, value, and are proud to share with their peers?
Are you interested in learning how to create a non-disposable assignment for your students?
This 3-part assignment redesign workshop will take you through the steps to create a non-disposable assignment from beginning to end.
Disposable Assignments: "are assignments that students complain about doing and faculty complain about grading. They’re assignments that add no value to the world – after a student spends three hours creating it, a teacher spends 30 minutes grading it, and then the student throws it away” (Wiley, 2013).
This series is about creating a non-disposable assignment. The three sessions will blend a combination of some pre-reading, discussion, and in session time to flesh out the details of a rich assignment that allows students to co-create knowledge, be creative and engage in a personalised learning experience.
We’ll focus on crafting projects which meet your existing or redesigned course learning outcomes, explore tools for students to demonstrate their learning, and identify strategies for conducting peer-review. In the end you’ll end up with plan for implementing your redesigned assignment in Spring 2018 or Fall 2018.
Throughout the three-part workshop we will also be collectively exposing our own learnings to others in the group through a live reflection and blogging site to support our work. We hope faculty can attend all three parts as they are planned with the intent you are coming for the whole series.
Taking lessons from Agile Programming/eXtreme Programming into how we do research. From deliverables and meetings to sprints and scrums.
Based on version presented at Open University CALRG conference 11 June 2013.
CC-BY
Presentation by Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources at the American Association of Community Colleges Workforce Development Institute 2013 in San Diego
Keynotes presentation by Phil Richards, Jisc Chief Innovation Officer at Cetis Conference 2014: Building the Digital Institution on the 17th June 2014 at the University of Bolton
The exponential growth of social media and ubiquitous use of mobile technology has changed the way we communicate both socially and for many also professionally. It is therefore timely to consider how social media can be used to develop personal learning networks and through open sharing find opportunities to also develop our scholarly practice.
This presentation was given as a public lecture at the Open University of Catalonia Edul@b, Barcelona Growth Centre
@UOCuniversitat @edulab
Open access, universities as publishers - Jisc Digital Festival 2015Jisc
This session focussed on areas where universities are (re)discovering roles, especially in the area of book publishing. Participants will be provided with evidence to help them consider this role for universities as publishers and its implications for them.
Presentation of a JISC research project into e-textbook publishing processes at a university. The context is explained and some lessons-learned are listed.
Understanding Networked Scholars: Experiences and practices in online social ...George Veletsianos
Slides from an invited talk given to the The 4th International Conference on E-learning and Distance Education located in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Online journals, online forums, and social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are an integral part of open and digital scholarship, which is often seen as a major breakthrough in radically rethinking the ways in which knowledge is created and shared. In this presentation I situate networked practices in open/digital scholarship and explain what scholars and professors do online, and, why they do the things that the do. I conclude by describing 3 themes pervasive in scholarly networks: identify networks, networks of conflict, and networks of disclosure.
Starting where we are, moving through changes open education is bringing at institutional, national, regional and international levels, and how we can continue to strengthen open education and its positive impacts
This presentation was made together with collegue, Louise Vakamocea at the EDULINK-SIDECAP Project Final Dissemination Event held at the University of the South Pacific, Laucala Campus, Fiji Islands in February 2010.
Blessing or Curse? OER Accessibility: The University of the South Pacific Exp...Alanieta Lesuma-Fatiaki
This presentation was made at the AAOU Conference 2014 at the Open University Hong Kong on 29th October. It is a presentation based on a paper co-written by Alanieta Lesuma-Fatiaki and Neelam Narayan of the Centre for Flexible Learning, USP, Laucala Campus, Fiji Islands.
The university as a hackerspace - Joss Winn - Jisc Digital Festival 2014Jisc
The University of Lincoln has explored opportunities as diverse as the potential of open data, developed a research data infrastructure, nurtured student developers and developed a research-led approach to teaching known as the student as producer, to name a few. However, these projects and initiatives have not been throw away experiments. Rather, they have helped inform the University’s new Digital Education Strategy aimed at meeting the needs and improving the experience of its students and researchers at a time when the idea and purpose of the university is being challenged.
This provides an overview of some of the innovative projects and initiatives the University of Lincoln has undertaken in the past few years and how universities can explore approaches to teaching and research support, while helping inform the institutional mission and strategy. It will also provide an opportunity for managers, learning technologists and teachers to discuss the potential for such an approach at their institution and to share relevant experiences and ideas.
This is an update of an earlier presentation so is part repeat, but reflects my own growing in understanding of open scholarship over the last year or so.
With apologies to the great twentieth century philosopher, Don Henley, this talk looks back to the reasons we did learn and looks forward to some of the ways technology might help us to learn for the future.
The Non-Disposable Assignment: Enhancing Personalised Learning - Session 2Michael Paskevicius
Slides from our second meeting of three from a course redesign series on creating non-disposable assignments.
As advertised:
Do you want to offer students an opportunity to bring their passions, personal interests, and individual strengths into their coursework?
How can we design assessment which students feel connected to, value, and are proud to share with their peers?
Are you interested in learning how to create a non-disposable assignment for your students?
This 3-part assignment redesign workshop will take you through the steps to create a non-disposable assignment from beginning to end.
Disposable Assignments: "are assignments that students complain about doing and faculty complain about grading. They’re assignments that add no value to the world – after a student spends three hours creating it, a teacher spends 30 minutes grading it, and then the student throws it away” (Wiley, 2013).
This series is about creating a non-disposable assignment. The three sessions will blend a combination of some pre-reading, discussion, and in session time to flesh out the details of a rich assignment that allows students to co-create knowledge, be creative and engage in a personalised learning experience.
We’ll focus on crafting projects which meet your existing or redesigned course learning outcomes, explore tools for students to demonstrate their learning, and identify strategies for conducting peer-review. In the end you’ll end up with plan for implementing your redesigned assignment in Spring 2018 or Fall 2018.
Throughout the three-part workshop we will also be collectively exposing our own learnings to others in the group through a live reflection and blogging site to support our work. We hope faculty can attend all three parts as they are planned with the intent you are coming for the whole series.
Taking lessons from Agile Programming/eXtreme Programming into how we do research. From deliverables and meetings to sprints and scrums.
Based on version presented at Open University CALRG conference 11 June 2013.
CC-BY
Presentation by Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources at the American Association of Community Colleges Workforce Development Institute 2013 in San Diego
Keynotes presentation by Phil Richards, Jisc Chief Innovation Officer at Cetis Conference 2014: Building the Digital Institution on the 17th June 2014 at the University of Bolton
The exponential growth of social media and ubiquitous use of mobile technology has changed the way we communicate both socially and for many also professionally. It is therefore timely to consider how social media can be used to develop personal learning networks and through open sharing find opportunities to also develop our scholarly practice.
This presentation was given as a public lecture at the Open University of Catalonia Edul@b, Barcelona Growth Centre
@UOCuniversitat @edulab
Open access, universities as publishers - Jisc Digital Festival 2015Jisc
This session focussed on areas where universities are (re)discovering roles, especially in the area of book publishing. Participants will be provided with evidence to help them consider this role for universities as publishers and its implications for them.
Presentation of a JISC research project into e-textbook publishing processes at a university. The context is explained and some lessons-learned are listed.
Understanding Networked Scholars: Experiences and practices in online social ...George Veletsianos
Slides from an invited talk given to the The 4th International Conference on E-learning and Distance Education located in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Online journals, online forums, and social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are an integral part of open and digital scholarship, which is often seen as a major breakthrough in radically rethinking the ways in which knowledge is created and shared. In this presentation I situate networked practices in open/digital scholarship and explain what scholars and professors do online, and, why they do the things that the do. I conclude by describing 3 themes pervasive in scholarly networks: identify networks, networks of conflict, and networks of disclosure.
Starting where we are, moving through changes open education is bringing at institutional, national, regional and international levels, and how we can continue to strengthen open education and its positive impacts
This presentation was made together with collegue, Louise Vakamocea at the EDULINK-SIDECAP Project Final Dissemination Event held at the University of the South Pacific, Laucala Campus, Fiji Islands in February 2010.
Blessing or Curse? OER Accessibility: The University of the South Pacific Exp...Alanieta Lesuma-Fatiaki
This presentation was made at the AAOU Conference 2014 at the Open University Hong Kong on 29th October. It is a presentation based on a paper co-written by Alanieta Lesuma-Fatiaki and Neelam Narayan of the Centre for Flexible Learning, USP, Laucala Campus, Fiji Islands.
This presentation was made with collegue, Louise Vakamocea at the University of Mauritius, Mauritius in December 2008 as part of the EDULINK-SideCAP project.
This presentation was made at the University of the South Pacific's Regional Campus Directors Forum in 2010, Laucala Campus, Suva, Fiji Islands with collegue, Louise Vakamocea.
We would like to acknowledge the slideshare presentation by Sunnie Kim of Michigan State University on the topic Intro to Oer from from which a great portion of this presentation is based upon.
This presentation was made in 2011 in an Instructional Designers meeting held on Friday 20th May at the Centre for Flexible and Distance Learning (CFDL), University of the South Pacific, Laucala Campus, Suva, Fiji Islands
Teaching in MOOCs: Unbundling the roles of the educatorRebecca Ferguson
Teaching in MOOCs: Unbundling the roles of the educator, a presentation given at the design4learning conference at The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK by Rebecca Ferguson (co-authored with Denise Whitelock) on 26 November 2014.
Presentation given at the HEA Social Sciences learning and teaching summit 'Teaching ethics: The ethics of teaching'
A blog post outlining the issues discussed at the summit is available via http://bit.ly/1lndTnX
Presentation given at the HEA Social Sciences learning and teaching summit 'Teaching ethics: The ethics of teaching'
A blog post outlining the issues discussed at the summit is available via http://bit.ly/1lndTnX
Presentation given at the HEA Social Sciences learning and teaching summit 'Teaching ethics: The ethics of teaching'
A blog post outlining the issues discussed at the summit is available via http://bit.ly/1lndTnX
Presentation given at the HEA Social Sciences learning and teaching summit 'Teaching ethics: The ethics of teaching'
A blog post outlining the issues discussed at the summit is available via http://bit.ly/1lndTnX
Presentation given at the HEA Social Sciences learning and teaching summit 'Teaching ethics: The ethics of teaching'
A blog post outlining the issues discussed at the summit is available via http://bit.ly/1lndTnX
Presentation given at the HEA Social Sciences learning and teaching summit 'Teaching ethics: The ethics of teaching'
A blog post outlining the issues discussed at the summit is available via http://bit.ly/1lndTnX
Presentation given at the HEA Social Sciences learning and teaching summit 'Teaching ethics: The ethics of teaching'
A blog post outlining the issues discussed at the summit is available via http://bit.ly/1lndTnX
Keynote on 'Pedagogies for Today' given by Professor Rebecca Ferguson of The Open University at the International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE 2022), a hybrid conference based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Guest lecture delivered to the Master of Leadership in Open Education programme at the University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia. An overiew of more than 10 years working on open education research projects is reviewed and the relation between research and policy explored. Responses are made to questions raised by students.
This presentation is licensed CC BY - any logos or other images are included under fair use or assumed public domain.
Slides presented (virtually) by Professor Rebecca Ferguson of The Open University at the Teach4Edu4 multiplier event held in Birmingham, UK, in January 2023. This presentation formed part of a larger workshop with multiple speakers from The Open University.
Slides for the plenary feedback session at #cetis14 the Cetis Conference; Building the Digital Institution held at The University of Bolton on the 17th and 18th June 2014.
Research in current scenario -sgd-adamf-20-apr-2018Sanjeev Deshmukh
Current research is driven by huge developments due to internet and digital disruptions. Democratization of education has opened up new vistas for doing research. It is essential to remain visible.
Presentation delivered by Nancy Graham, chair of CoPILOT, as part of the 'Ooer-OERs! Using free, shared information literacy resources' event held at the University of Bradford, 24th June 2015, organised by the Yorkshire and Humberside division of the Academic and Research Libraries Group.
Mobile LMS and Pedagogical Uses for Social Mediatbirdcymru
Possibilities for mobile learning systems including Blackboard and iTunesU - presented at the Fourth International Conference of E-Learning and Distance Learning, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Feb-Mar 2015
For an online Gasta session - the internet was designed to be robust in a crisis, and the pandemic crisis has revealed frailties in the education system. Distance education has many of the design features of the internet and offers a more resilient structure possibly
Using the work of the OER Research Hub at the Open University, different types of OER users are identified. The different strategies for reaching these audiences are considered
A workshop I ran on the idea of Guerrilla research - that is no (low) cost research that relies on free tools, open data, etc and doesn't require permission
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Synthetic Fiber Construction in lab .pptxPavel ( NSTU)
Synthetic fiber production is a fascinating and complex field that blends chemistry, engineering, and environmental science. By understanding these aspects, students can gain a comprehensive view of synthetic fiber production, its impact on society and the environment, and the potential for future innovations. Synthetic fibers play a crucial role in modern society, impacting various aspects of daily life, industry, and the environment. ynthetic fibers are integral to modern life, offering a range of benefits from cost-effectiveness and versatility to innovative applications and performance characteristics. While they pose environmental challenges, ongoing research and development aim to create more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives. Understanding the importance of synthetic fibers helps in appreciating their role in the economy, industry, and daily life, while also emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and innovation.
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June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
The Roman Empire A Historical Colossus.pdfkaushalkr1407
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The empire's roots lie in the city of Rome, founded, according to legend, by Romulus in 753 BCE. Over centuries, Rome evolved from a small settlement to a formidable republic, characterized by a complex political system with elected officials and checks on power. However, internal strife, class conflicts, and military ambitions paved the way for the end of the Republic. Julius Caesar’s dictatorship and subsequent assassination in 44 BCE created a power vacuum, leading to a civil war. Octavian, later Augustus, emerged victorious, heralding the Roman Empire’s birth.
Under Augustus, the empire experienced the Pax Romana, a 200-year period of relative peace and stability. Augustus reformed the military, established efficient administrative systems, and initiated grand construction projects. The empire's borders expanded, encompassing territories from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to the Euphrates. Roman legions, renowned for their discipline and engineering prowess, secured and maintained these vast territories, building roads, fortifications, and cities that facilitated control and integration.
The Roman Empire’s society was hierarchical, with a rigid class system. At the top were the patricians, wealthy elites who held significant political power. Below them were the plebeians, free citizens with limited political influence, and the vast numbers of slaves who formed the backbone of the economy. The family unit was central, governed by the paterfamilias, the male head who held absolute authority.
Culturally, the Romans were eclectic, absorbing and adapting elements from the civilizations they encountered, particularly the Greeks. Roman art, literature, and philosophy reflected this synthesis, creating a rich cultural tapestry. Latin, the Roman language, became the lingua franca of the Western world, influencing numerous modern languages.
Roman architecture and engineering achievements were monumental. They perfected the arch, vault, and dome, constructing enduring structures like the Colosseum, Pantheon, and aqueducts. These engineering marvels not only showcased Roman ingenuity but also served practical purposes, from public entertainment to water supply.
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
2. Overview
• Open scholarship
• Ethical perspective
• Ethics of obligation vs risks
• How open for students
• Open Access/Open data
• OERs
• New skills
• Learning analytics
• Conclusions
4. Open
scholarship
Weller (2011) open scholars are likely to:
• Have a distributed online identity
• Have a central place for their identity
• Have cultivated an online network of peers
• Have developed a personal learning environment from a range of
tools
• Engage with open publishing
• Create a range of informal outputs
• Try new technologies
• Mix personal and professional outputs
• Use new technologies to support teaching and research
• Automatically create and share outputs
6. What is teaching?
• Partly enculturation
• What if that culture has changed or is less
valid?
7. Competing set of ethical
considerations
• We should be
equipping students
with skills and
approaches that
will be relevant
Learning is a
vulnerable
process & risks
associated
9. H817Open
• Create own blog
• Aggregate together
• Some did behind password
• Others felt excluded
• Forcing people into open
10. Open Access
• Anything paid for by Govt funding should be
freely available
• But what about things paid for by student
fees?
• “Publishing science behind paywalls is
immoral” (Mike Taylor)
11. Open data
• G8 treaty on open data - all
government data will be
released openly by default
• Mandates that put data with
publications
• But what about ‘human’ data?
• Deanonymising data is not
difficult
• Date of birth, gender & zip
code is unique for 87% of the
population
• Ohm: ‘Data can be either
useful or perfectly anonymous
but never both.’
12. OERs
• Is there an ethical compulsion to release
teaching content?
• Is it unethical not to expose your students to
the best content?
13. Developing appropriate skills
• Networker
• Digital identity
• Engaging with the open net
• Are the academic skills we teach still relevant?
14. Should we be teaching our students
the art of guerrilla research?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/idfonline/
5981013497/
15. “what’s important here is that Zuckerberg’s
genius could be embraced by half-a-billion
people within six years of its first being
launched, without (and here is the critical
bit) asking permission of anyone. The real
story is not the invention. It is the platform
that makes the invention sing.”
(Larry Lessig)
16. The manifesto
1. It can be done by one or two researchers and
does not require a team
2. It relies on existing open data, information
and tools
3. It is fairly quick to realise
4. It is disseminated via blogs and social media
5. It doesn’t require permission
17. More ethical?
12 days for a
conventional
proposal was the
average (RCUK 2006)
ESRC - only 17% of
bids were successful in
2009-10
RCUK = 2006 £196
million on
applications to the
8 UK research
councils
2800 bids submitted to
ESRC in 2009-10, an
increase in 33% from
2005-6
ESRC - 2000 failed
bids x 12 days per
bid = 65 years of
effort
18. Learning analytics
• Can be powerful tool to support students
• Ethical element of gathering data
• Predictive analytics – should we
encourage/discourage people who have little
chance of success?
19. James Boyle:
“We are very good at seeing the downsides
and the dangers of open systems, open
production systems, networks of openness.
.. Those dangers are real… we are not so
good at seeing the benefits and the
converse holds true for the closed system.”
20. Conclusions
• New tools & approaches offer new
possibilities
• Openness is key to many of these
• But bring new ethical considerations
• Ethics in NOT adopting as well as adopting
Editor's Notes
My interest is in digital scholarship and open education.
I’m going to talk about some of the new possibilities and ways of working and the ethical considerations these raise
So as well as digital can talk about open scholarship, defined by these types of characteristics
Do we teach students to have these kinds of skills and should we?
Can make argument for openness based on it being efficient
But there is also an ethical side, which I’ll focus on here
Start with big question – what is teaching (particularly in an HE context)?
It is about imparting knowledge, developing skills
But also about enculturation – the reason HE is seen as transformative experience is because we bring people into culture of higher ed and all that involves – critical thinking, evaluating arguments, reflection etc.
But there are also a set of values associated with online identity and networking which are important.
There is an ethical argument I think that we are obliged to teach these types of skills to our students also, and it is remiss of us not to do so.
I think there are a range of competing ethical considerations throughout this, so my argument is not just that ‘open is good’
For example -
Openness can really work for students in a teaching context, For instance these courses
Openness is at the heart and although challenging people come out having developed new skills and also reflected on ways of learning, their own identity, etc All things we used to do a lot if HE
My MOOC – had some of these benefits, but you tend to hear from the enthusiasts.
What about those who didn’t like it?
Broadening it out a bit, we also teach our students how to become researchers
And dissemination is part of that
There is a strong ethical argument to OA for Govt funded research, but what about now students are paying fees, scholarship that is effectively funded by them?
Open data reveals how what can seem quite straightforward ethically has implications.
This is often the type of research we get 3rd year undergrads to do for their dissertation. Is it ethical to get them to release it openly? Is it ethical NOT to?
Open educational resources
At the start mentioned developing new skills
Increasingly need to be well developed in these areas, but how many can say they really do this in an intensive manner?
Are we failing students if we don’t?
I want to take a slight detour as an example
The key element is permission I think, and this goes back to the architecture of the internet. This is Lessig’s review of the film The Social Network, and the point he stresses is that it was the removal of the barrier of permission that allowed facebook (and all those other start-ups) to flourish
It’s not really a manifesto, but let’s pretend
Some principles that characterise guerrilla research
We don’t see the waste in the current system because it’s accepted
But a guerrilla approach may be more efficient, produce more shareable stuff
Most of these rejected bids are lost
So should we be teaching this approach to research?