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Beyond Good and Evil:Open-ish Educational Practice
Nick PearceDurham University
about menew ‘open’old ‘open’what is open?2 case studiesopen-ish education
• Sociologist – with a pinch of STS• E-science, digital scholarship• Now teach sociology + anthropology– Foundation centre
• SCORE fellow – although what I say here is in personal capacity!
new ‘open’
•New technologies•Contrast with old/closed•Institutional level•Reveals problems •Limited adoption
old ‘open’
• Education and scholarship have always been about sharing
• New technologies become old, but persist
What is open?
• Making something available to everybody• Is this an ideal? – Not everybody will ever have access– Or interest– Or capacity
Reading pack and the CLA
• Mashup of content• Constraints on content and reach• Popular with students• New technology brings exciting possibilities
Powerpoint, BB and Slideshare
• New feature of BB9 of slideshare ‘mashup’• Already use for conference slides• Sex, Death and Monkeys
What are the implications for making lecture slides publicly available?
• Pros– Increased prominence– PR– ego-boost
• Cons– Fiddly licensing– fixation with numbers– Standalone vs lecture?
Open-ish Education
• If open is an ideal, could open-ish be desirable?
• Mixture of closed and open
Discussion
@drnickpearcehttp://www.slideshare.net/pearcenhttp://digitalscholar.wordpress.com/http://durham.academia.edu/NickPearce
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