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BuddyPress & OpenEducation A happy relationship in 10 steps

BuddyPress & Open Education

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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

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The experienced groom: open education

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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

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The beautiful young bride: BuddyPress

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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

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At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. Plato

Love is the poetry of the senses. Honore de Balzac

Code is poetry.WordPress

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The technical approach doesn’t matter

vs

The learning approach doesn’t matter

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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. H. L. Mencken

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The intelligence of roadmaps

vs

The imagination of learning

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Anyone can be passionate,

but it takes real lovers to be silly. Rose Franken

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The sillyness of coders, nerds & geeks

vs

The sillyness of educators & learners

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Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.Theodor Adorno

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Software architecture

vs

Learning architecture

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When love is not madness, it is not love.Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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The madness of hierarchies

vs

The madness of voluntarism

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The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

Albert Ellis

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The persistence to address problems

vs

The persistence to ignore problems

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Love is the child of illusion, and the parent of disillusion.

Miguel de Unamuno

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The illusion of an easy solution

vs

The disillusion of being alone

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The first magic of love isour ignorance that it can ever end.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Open Education does not know

vs

Open Education will not wait

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.Lord Dewar

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The philosophy of open movements

vs

The need to invest in open movements

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It is not a lack of love,

but a lack of friendship

that makes unhappy

marriages.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The existence of hybrids

vs

The emergence of networks

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Kurt Vonnegut

Make love when you can. It’s good for you.

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Being active in many niche networks

vs

Being able to connect these networks

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In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.

Janos Arany

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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

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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

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