The ground below us, the stars above: Exploring philosophical approaches to Open Education
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Slides presented at Open Education Global 2019. This presentation explored some philosophical issues around open education and contains several provocations designed to stimulate debate.
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The ground below us, the stars above: Exploring philosophical approaches to Open Education
- 1. The ground below us, the stars above ---- Exploring philosophical approaches to Open Education Markus Deimann Rob Farrow Billy Meinke-Lau
- 2. Idea and Goal of the Session Diego Delso, Monasterio de San Juan de Duero, Soria, España, 2017-05-26, DD 19, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. Statements Opening up education is conceived mostly of as a technical, legal and political project. By opening up education, the underlying philosophy gets fragmented and isolated leading to a decline of its status and its power.
- 6. The art of teaching vs. teaching as a duty
- 9. PROVOCATIONS
- 10. Provocation 1 Does open education have a philosophy? If so, what is it? If not, do we need one? Or several?
- 11. Provocation 2 Is social justice a necessary element of open education?
- 12. Provocation 3 How can groups that were traditionally excluded from the conversation be included?
- 13. Provocation 4 How important is ethics for open education? Do we share an ethics?
- 14. Provocation 5 Is there a pedagogy of open education? Does it have a philosophical foundation?
- 15. Provocation 6 Does open education need a discourse ethics? Do we speak to each other in the right ways? CC BY genebrooks monkeys-hear-no-evil-see-no-evil-speak-no-evil1 https://www.flickr.com/photos/75718307@N00/25226333809
- 16. Provocation 7 When it comes to teaching, do we need to ‘return to the basics’? Do we need to think more closely about the social and political dimensions of our work? CC BY-SA Rama Socrates teaching Perikles by Nicolas Guibal
- 17. Provocation 8 Have we adequately theorised open educational practices?
- 18. Provocation 9 Is education broken? Do we need to rethink the university? CC BY-SA Broken Education by Jeffrey Washington https://web.500px.com/photo/52563852/broken-education-by-jeffery-washington?
- 19. Provocation 10 Is it the role of the open educator to try and bring about wider social change? Why?
- 20. Provocation 11 Are we thinking about technology in the right way? How is technology shaping the experiences of teachers and learners? CC BY-SA GREF50VIKI1799 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Terminator-skynet.png
- 21. Provocation 12 Do we need new forms of open practice that improves outreach and impact into society as a whole?
- 22. Thanks for your contributions! #oeglobal19
Editor's Notes
- The provocations I suggested should probably be organised thematically in a way that makes more sense. We might also want to introduce some images.
- Probably worth mentioning Sarah Lambert’s use of Nancy Fraser’s work in relation to this: SJ as redistribution; recognition; representation
- Feel free to move this topic higher as it is the focus of Markus’s intro