‘The university as a hackerspace’

Joss Winn, Centre for Educational Research and Development, University of Lincoln jwinn@lincoln.ac.uk http://cerd.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk #digifest14

 

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http://lncd.lincoln.ac.uk/project/institutional-openness-case-study

DevXS hackathon (2011)

http://devxs.org.uk

Digital Education

1.  A cross-university digital education group (a committee, working group, network?)

2.  Incentives and recognition (teacher education leading to credit and funding)

3.  An anti-disciplinary Masters research programme (the ‘university as a hackerspace’)

4.  A framework for re-engineering space and time (the ‘idea of the university’:

open, flipped, virtual, edgeless, etc.)

http://joss.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/2014/03/03/digital-education/

‘The university as a hackerspace’

•  Cross-university Masters by Research degree •  The ‘campus’ = the ‘hackerspace’ (virtual/material/

open/edgeless) •  Anti-disciplinary: Democratically involves staff and

facilities from across all schools •  Experiments/challenges, not ‘modules’; Hacker ethic. •  Student as Producer: Research-based; teachers and

students learn from each other. The institution learns from its teacher-student scholars. A ‘Skunkworks’ for the institution.

•  Can a university contain (intellectually, politically, practically) a hackerspace? Are the two organisational and educational forms compatible?