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Putting the Classroom in the Computer:The Rhetoric of the Open Courseware
Movement
Elizabeth LoshUniversity of California, Irvine
1) tensions between regulation and content-creation
in institutions such as government agencies, universities, and corporations
failurefailureand more failure
2) tensions between a culture of knowledge and a culture of information
updating the “two cultures argument”not just about “print culture” vs. “digital culture”
epistemological issues:
appearance and reality vs. contingency and probability
3) tensions between “openness” and “reputation”
as institutions seek to promote their “brands”
risk to institutional ethos and the law of unintended consequences:unplanned audiences and purposes
the case of videorecorded lectures posted online
rethinking the digital divide:no longer just computers in classrooms
open research and scholarship
looking at language:a rhetoric of openness
open pedagogy: participatory culture, P2P education, and
personalized intelligent tutoring
looking at the gap between open information and open education
how is “open courseware” different from “open source software”?
what are the ideologies of “openness”? how are they different from the ideologies of “freedom”
and “honesty” we already have when we talk about “academic freedom” or “academic honesty”?
what are the rhetorics opposing “openness”? “commercial interest”? “security”? “exclusivity”? “stability”? “selectivity”? “privacy”? “constraint”?
does it really avoid the double meanings of “free”?
why not “shared”?
where are words like “labor” and “consumption”?
institutional rhetorics:MIT as a non-”lovemark” campus
institutional rhetorics:the Harvard response
a pre-history of cathedrals and bazaars
a shared pedagogical initiative
resisting being trapped in the web
anxieties about ownership of intellectual property
anxieties about the leveling effect
anxieties about how public a public intellectual should be
anxieties about the privacy of students
anxieties about the alienation of labor
anxieties about the colonization of lifeworld by system
a rhetoric of disclaimers: what it is not
distance learning agendas
corporate competition and derivative works:arguments against the public domain
how will this affect the Googlization of universities?
can we have open access without open search?
costs to the public spherecreating more shut-ins
the afterlife of SPIDERthe reputation economy of open courses