This is another way that students can contribute to—not just consume—knowledge, and it shifts learning into a dialogic experience.
A shift from "consume" to "contribute" (interesting shift in perspective on pedagogy)
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- Mar 2019
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openpedagogy.org openpedagogy.org
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If a central gift that OERs bring to students is that they make college more affordable, one of the central gifts that they bring to faculty is that of agency, and how this can help us rethink our pedagogies in ways that center on access.
A focus on the social impact benefits for instructors. This was enlightening. OER works focus so much on what it will do for the learner in breaking down barriers and reducing cost but instructors will benefit as well. OER can break barriers about study stigmas, enable instructors to teach from a more diverse and understanding perspective, and even empower them to empower students as they learn.
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, but also that the open license would allow students (and teaching faculty) to contribute to the knowledge commons, not just consume from it, in meaningful and lasting ways.
An interesting departure from the passive-type pedagogies - reminds me of Paulo Freire's take on empowerment through learning and creating a more diverse and just way to learn. Seems like we still have remnants of what he would call "the banking model" of learning.
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www.insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com
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The fight for the web is one of the most important causes of our time. Today, half of the world is online. It is more urgent than ever to ensure the other half are not left behind offline, and that everyone contributes to a web that drives equality, opportunity and creativity.
Ethics. And unfortunately, control measures or rather, I like to call it self-regulation or social responsibility. I believe in freedom of speech. What should NOT be permitted is live streaming of your personal mass shooting video on social media (Unfortunately, what the world woke up to this morning). I have faith that a vast majority of the world would support that the posting of this video, let alone the act, was not the original intention of the use of the internet. And when the man who created the internet, himself, is calling for a social contract and these measures, it is up to us, who 'built' the network on the internet to now protect and regulate it - which is a whole gamut of issues in itself. But, we have to start somewhere and the crowd is powerful!
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Today, Sir Tim encourages us to see beyond the problems in our digital communications that the web enabled and think about how to make an older, wiser web a reality.
Resonates! Many people today still fear the internet because we tend to focus on the negative impacts that it affords (and there are a lot) but the internet was created with hope in mind for a positive impact. It is worth reminding society that there are many amazing things that have been accomplished (ie. large communities of practice, professional networking, crowd-funding for good causes, new and unheard of careers/jobs/outlets etc.) I recently read "Machine, Platform, Crowd" by Eric Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee who detail the need for society to embrace the internet and its resulting outcomes (AI, Analytics etc.) not with fear of take over but rather by learning to work with the new technologies as a partnership. The thought process around technology and the internet needs to shift to positives or benefits - If my dad, a stubborn and stuck-in-the-past farmer can 'harness' the internet to find tractor parts... change is possible! haha
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