presentation for

Cyberfeminists remodel MOOCs: DOCC as Feminist Pedagogy, Learning and Distribution of

KnowledgeFemTechNet’s

Distributed Open Collaborative Courses (DOCC)

Presented by Dr. Radhika Gajjala, Dr. C.L. Cole and

the Femtechnet Collective

Highlighting teaching as a practice; Online teaching as labor.

• Time to take stock and critically reflect upon current trends in cyberfeminism, namely, open pedagogy, open learning, and digital publishing, always in relation to the intensive labor undertaken by women in accomplishing such activities.

Essential components of these cyberfeminist undertakings

• Technocultural innovation and Collaboration• Materiality of teaching through online/wireless technologies• Aspirations towards interdisciplinary and international

conversation and situated diversity and networked agency and community level peer review process.

• Critical questions raised in relation to the potential of feminist open source education to transform and shift hierarchies within the current neoliberal education system, while maintaining a cautious look at new forms of countable and unaccountable women’s labor.

What is a DOCC?

• Distributed Open Collaborative Course• Organized by FemTechNet, an activated

network of scholars and artists• DOCC 2013 – “Dialogues on Feminism &Technology”

Implications: The DOCC uses technology to

• Create and share content, whether feminist or not• Give students and instructors a suite of tools to

interact • Augment what is available on individual campuses• Share resources and build new ones• Experiment with embodied and material in a digital age• Empower students and professors to create, not

receive

18 Nodal Sites, DOCC 2013 including 2 community sites

Students from Pitzer speak with two visiting profsSharon Irish, from University of Illinois and Radhika Gajjala, Bowling Green State University. The came to our class to shoot a “Dialogue” on PLACE.

Drs. Kara Keeling (USC), Wendy Chun (Brown), Faith Wilding (Brown), Maria Fernandez (Cornell), Anne Balsamo (New School), Lisa Nakamura (Univ of MI).

It’s All in the NAME!DOCC v MOOC

• Distributed v Massive: – creating a CRITICAL MASS

• Collaborative v Online– Experience is Online and Off: Blended Experiences– Co-produce knowledge accounting for difference

• Distribution and circulation of knowledge – Not just transmission

Shared Resourcesencourage

Distributed, Networked Dialogue, Interaction, and Collaboration

Uses the Internet and Technology not to SCALE the learning effort but:

• To share things: tools, resources, learning projects, collective efforts• To work together: collaborate (across disciplines)• To interact with those you could never meet (across space)• To save things which can be revised and/or mashed up• To produce archive of things not currently available

Pitzer College and Bowling Green State UniversityCollaborate Spring 2013

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http://femtechnet.newschool.edu/

FemTechNet’s Shared Video Dialogues

• 10 nodally-produced videos about shared course themes, selected by FemTechNet list serv

• Works as a spine for the courses• Made at Pitzer, the New School, OCADU,• Brown

FemTechNet’s Shared Learning Projects

• WikiStorm• KeyWord Videos• Object Exchange• Blogging• Mapping

FemTechNet’s Shared Collective Projects

• White Paper• Accessibility Committee: transcribes, captions Dialogue Videos• Grant writing• Presentations and Workshops• Open office hours and pedagogy workshops • Video Dialogue Production (Brown, OCADU, Pitzer, New School,

UIUC)• Co-Teaching: Juhasz and Gajjala

-Dr. Mead, Colby-Sawyer and Dr. Keating, OSU• Sharon Collingwood on Second Life

PLANS FOR 2014; Our To-Do (better) list

• INFRASTRUCTURE: Enhanced roles for University of Michigan, Yale, UC system• Too much of this is built on voluntary

labor of professors and students

• ASSESSMENTS using our own metrics• More robust PLATFORMS FOR INTERACTIONS

with good tech support• Keep track of CONTENT; create our own

archive

Jade Ulrich and Susie Ferrell

THANK YOU!Radhika Gajjalacyberdivalivesl

ForFemtechnet.org#femtechnet, #docc13