Producing students without boundaries through

“Nevermind the pedagogues, here's edupunk” (David Cohen in the Guardian’s Mortarboard Blog, June 2008)

ENTER EDUPUNK: “Corporations are selling us back our ideas, innovations, and visions for an exorbitant price. I want them all back, and I want them now!” (Jim Groom an instructional-technology specialist and adjunct professor at the University of Mary Washington, 2008)

877 ‘results’ (13/5/13)

DiY HE?

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OER in the UK: Phases 1-3 (2009-20012)

…full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, videos, tests, software, other tools, material or techniques…

http://dylanglynn.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/utopia-dystopia.html

“The End of the University as We Know It”?(The Observer, 2013)

“Going to Harvard from your own bedroom” (BBC News, 2011)

“Is it possible for everybody to be an autodidact, now that knowledge is so accessible online?” (Wall Street Journal, 2010)

OCW 2011: 100 million; by 2021: 1 billion?OpenLearn 2011: 40 million

OER University OpenLearnPeer to Peer University JorumiTunesU OCWMITx/edX UdacityThe Khan Academy Coursera

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“Punk was actively discouraged if not banned during 1976 and 1977, first by the music industry, then the newspapers and the politicians, then the public at large. This resulted in an underground distribution and production network which turned necessity into a virtue: it was easy and cheap, go and do it. These ideals of access – which have been expanded by the internet – have become one of Punk’s enduring legacies.”(Savage, 2001, England’s Dreaming, p. xv, emphasis added)

Producing students

Changing the student role through the ‘Student as Producer’ concept: emphasising research-focused teaching and learning

Lincoln University: Chemistry FM

Free advertising?

UCBC: Criminology VHS

‘anarchos’ - without rulers

‘agogos’ - to lead

Employability expectations from employers:

1. Business and customer awareness

2. Problem solving

3. Communication and literacy

4. Application of numeracy

5. Application of information technology

6. A ‘can-do’ approach

7. Entrepreneurship/enterprise

(Pegg et al, 2012, Pedagogy for Employability, p19)

Without boundariesNew disciplinary borders?

Mobile students?

New collaboration?

Open students?

‘The only way is ethics’? (LSE Students Union, 2011)

‘Camera lucida’ and Educational Punctums

“it is this element which rises from the scene, shoots out of it like an arrow, and pierces me. A Latin word exists to designate this wound, this prick, this mark made by a pointed instrument: the word suits me all the better in that it also refers to the notion of punctuation, and because the photographs I am speaking of are in effect punctuated, sometimes even speckled with these sensitive point; precisely, these marks, these wounds are so many points. This second element which will disturb the studium I shall therefore call punctum; for punctum is also: sting, speck, cut, little hole – and also a cast of the dice. A photograph’s punctum is that accident which pricks me (but also bruises me, is poignant to me”. (Barthes, 1981: 26-7, emphasis added).

Degrees of edupunk

Community Challenge

A Massively Open Online Course (MOOC) or a LOOC?

Alternative assessment?

Wenceslaus Hollar (1663)

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Anarchogogy in action: http://communitychallenge.pbworks.com

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References

Barthes, R. (1981) Camera lucida. New York: Hill & Wang.

Pegg, A., Waldock, J., Hendy-Isaac, S. and Lawton, R. (2012) Pedagogy for employability URL (accessed 22 May 2012) http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/detail/employability/pedagogy_for_employability_update_2012

Savage, J. (2001) England’s Dreaming. London: Faber and Faber.