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Online learning communities and open source software are almost an old shoe, of course – but online learning and BuddyPress? That’s a young couple, deeply and freshly in love, going through their first happy months of mutual discovery. What will happen when the initial excitement wears off? Will open education, the experienced groom, turn around and go back to Moodle? Will BuddyPress, the beautiful young bride, drift away to wild young lovers? There are many things that can go wrong in a fresh relationship, and this presentation looked at ten dilemmas and ten things that the BuddyPress and the open education movements should do for each other.
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BuddyPress & OpenEducation
A happy relationship in 10 steps
The experienced groom: open education
increase access to educational opportunity
learner-centred, collaborative, participatory
power shifts: educators as learning facilitators
focused largely on open educational resources
slowly moving towards open policy, open assessment, open support, open teaching
The beautiful young bride: BuddyPress
social networking out of the box
open source: free access and redistribution
increasingly used by educational institutions
first plugins to build learning environments: mostly collaboration and administration
relation with open education largely platonic
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. Plato
Love is the poetry of the senses. Honore de Balzac
Code is poetry.WordPress
The technical approach doesn’t matter
vs
The learning approach doesn’t matter
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. H. L. Mencken
The intelligence of roadmaps
vs
The imagination of learning
Anyone can be passionate,
but it takes real lovers to be silly. Rose Franken
The sillyness of coders, nerds & geeks
vs
The sillyness of educators & learners
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.Theodor Adorno
Software architecture
vs
Learning architecture
When love is not madness, it is not love.Pedro Calderon de la Barca
The madness of hierarchies
vs
The madness of voluntarism
The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
Albert Ellis
The persistence to address problems
vs
The persistence to ignore problems
Love is the child of illusion, and the parent of disillusion.
Miguel de Unamuno
The illusion of an easy solution
vs
The disillusion of being alone
The first magic of love isour ignorance that it can ever end.
Benjamin Disraeli
Open Education does not know
vs
Open Education will not wait
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.Lord Dewar
The philosophy of open movements
vs
The need to invest in open movements
It is not a lack of love,
but a lack of friendship
that makes unhappy
marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The existence of hybrids
vs
The emergence of networks
Kurt Vonnegut
Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
Being active in many niche networks
vs
Being able to connect these networks
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
Janos Arany
1. student, course and grade management2. fine-grained privacy controls
3. one-to-one online tutoring4. peer-reviewed magazines
5. a multi-author editorial workflow6. indexing for journal directories
7. library search engine integration8. academic profiles and portfolios
9. data generation and visualisation10. visual collaboration tools
10 IMPOSSIBILITIES
Photo credits:www.youthmedia.eu users
Stefan FrankeRoman Henn Maja Kowalczyk Mariesol FumyCarsten Boock Laura Günsel Luiza PuiuIsi Fischer Malte Tiedemann Carlo SperfeldAnonymousMax Wohlers Mariesol Fumy again Johanna Torstensson Mirela Zoranic and Malte Tiedemann
You guys rock.
Contacts
Andreas Karsten
@nonformality@youthpolicy
http://www.youthpolicy.org
andreas@youthpolicy.org
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