t he e mergent l andscape : r eflections & r esponse laura czerniewicz 20 november 2014 @czernie...
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INTRODUCTION
o Promises of great changes in higher education
Networks constitute the new social morphology of our societies and the diffusion of networking logic substantially modifies …. experiences of power and cultureThe Internet changed the nature of networks by making them more inclusive and easy to participate in.
Manuel Castells 1996 The Rise of the Network Society.
The future of higher education is open education!
David Wiley 2008http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/580
INTRODUCTION
o Promises of great changes in higher education
o In a reconfiguring post – traditional landscape
conventional flexible
FORMAL
SEMI-FORMAL
NON-FORMAL
LecturesTutorialsCourse packs
Short courses
Summer school
conventional flexible
FORMAL
SEMI-FORMAL
NON-FORMAL
LecturesTutorialsCourse packs
Short courses
Summer school
Blended courses Online courses
conventional flexible
FORMAL
SEMI-FORMAL
NON-FORMAL
Lectures & tutorials
Short courses
Summer school
Blended courses Online courses
Professional developmentcourses
MOOC related variants
Czerniewicz, L; Deacon, A; Small, J and Walji, S (2014) Developing world MOOCs: A curriculum view of the MOOC landscape, in Journal of Global Literacies, Technologies, and Emerging Pedagogies (JOGLTEP) Vol. 2, Issue 3, July 2014, http://joglep.com/files/7614/0622/4917/2._Developing_world_MOOCs.pdf
o An austerity environment for HE globally and locally
o Urgent local pressures• Access, success, redress, diversity
Shawn Carpenter CC BY-SA 2.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/spcbrass/4557822128
o HE is an extremely contested space at present in terms of• Who is setting the agenda• Who is paying and what the implications of
that are • What role the technology is playing• How the geopolitics of knowledge are
playing out
o The Internet has not lead to inclusivity
o Disaggregation has not necessarily lead to openness • Disaggregation has provided more
opportunities for commodification of education
o Openness has been unevenly distributed – open for access but not open for participation
o The developing world • continues to be regarded as a recipient and
as a market in the reconfigured landscape• International continues to mean northern• Knowledge from the periphery is less
visible and less legitimate
A FLATTENED LANDSCAPE
o A new form of universalism?• a synonym for the narrow, self-serving
parochialism of Europe? (Chinua Achebe, 1975)
o There is a serious danger that existing divides are being exacerbated not alleviated
o Tensions in the system• Education as a public good
“education is inherently an ethical and political act”
• Technology • Can enable open practices• Can close down in new ways
• Knowledge as a commodity or a commons• Threats include intellectual property legislation,
licensing, overpricing, lack of preservation
• The role of the university• Challenged by new forms of HE provision
CHANGING MODELS
TraditionalComplete package (fees)
Emergent models Individual elements
Fees Yes No
Content May be free/included in fees/paid for
May be paid
Support Free/included in fees May be paid
Assessment Free/included in fees May be paid
Quality assurance Free/included in fees May be paid
Certification Free/included in fees Paid
Platform May be licensed or free May be licensed or free
o Rise of outsourcingo Digital content shifts• From products to services• From ownership to licensing
o Increased commodification of each aspect of the teaching and learning process• Implications for coherence of teaching and
learning? And for policy?
EMERGENCE OF NEW FORMS
o Different forms of recognition within a course
o The same course offered in a range of modes
o New forms • of courses • of programmes
o
o Content is ubiquitous• Whose content? Which content?
A RESPONSE
From one institution
2007
THE OPEN AGENDA AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN
2008
2010
2012
2013
2009
2011
2014
Opening Scholarship
2015
Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme
VC Student
OER Project
2007
THE OPEN AGENDA AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN
2008
2010
2012
2013
2009
2011
2014
Opening Scholarship
2015
Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme
VC Student
OER Project
LOCAL CONTENT ONLINE
REPRESENTATION MATTERS
o The virtual dimension• Shapes what is known and what can be known• Makes some knowledge visible and legitimate and
other invisible and illegitimate• Consolidates power through normalisation• Influences how knowledge is produced and
reproduced• Online representation augments, echoes and refracts
physical representation
Graham, M (2013) , The Virtual Dimension
….is not neutral
2007
THE OPEN AGENDA AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN
2008
2010
2012
2013
2009
2011
2014
2015
VC Student
OER Project
INTEGRATED REPOSITORY
PARTICIPATION
PARTICIPANTS? CONSUMERS?
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/globalhighered/mapping-courseras-global-footprint
http://openuct.uct.ac.za/blog/mooc-less-africa
PROVIDERS
MOOCs @ UCT
2015
COLLABORATION
2007
THE OPEN AGENDA AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN
2008
2010
2012
2013
2009
2011
2014
2015
University of Cape Town
University of Michigan
University of Ghana
o A view from the periphery is not simply geographical, it is a value proposition
RESEARCH
2007
THE OPEN AGENDA AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN
2008
2010
2012
2013
2009
2011
2014
Opening Scholarship
2015
Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme
In what ways, and under what circumstances can the adoption of OER address the increasing demand for accessible, relevant, high-quality
and affordable post-secondary education in the Global South?
RESEARCHDECOLONISATION OF THE CURRICULUM
o …a transformation of curriculum at the level of decolonized content is concerned with what we teach and the social, moral and cultural order in which the curriculum is embedded (the ‘hidden curriculum’).
Luckett, K 2014
CONCLUSION
o Open = create and participateo Make spaces to innovate • With new education models • (can’t afford not to)• Collaborative sandboxes
o Ongoing research into the changing environment
o How can the affordances of the emergent post-traditional landscape serve an equity and inclusion agenda in an austerity climate?
o We need to appropriate from the new models to support a development agenda
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