Producing Employability through Degrees of Edupunk?

Dr Philip Johnson SFHEAUniversity Centre at Blackburn College

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

“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)

“The End of the University as We Know It”?(The Observer, 2013)OCW 2011: 100 million; OCW 2021: 1 billion?OpenLearn 2011: 40 million

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

Producing students without boundaries through

“Guiding without rulers”

Graduate identity?

Autonomy?

Enhancing employability via Community Challenge

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“The university is a social project.”(Professor Mike Neary, Lincoln University)

Self-Employability?

• Requires attributes/skills akin to graduate employability

(“Pedagogy for Employability” by Pegg et al, 2012)

• Empowerability not employability? (“The OpenLIVES Pedagogy” by Martínez-Arboleda, 2013)

Time period Lancashire (14 authorities)

Great Britain

No. % No. %

March 2007 77,400 11.8 3,663,100 13.0

December 2014 94,400 14.6 4,367,600 14.7

People in employment aged 16-64 who are self-employed, 2006 to 2014 (ONS: Labour Force Survey/Annual Population Survey, 2014)

Chutney for change?

Working Together as Edupunks?

Thinking differently?Criminal Justice Today Criminology Today

Assessing differently?

Marking differently?

marking Quickly??

UCBC Atrium, January 2015

If you would like to know more please contact: p.johnson@blackburn.ac.uk or @edupunk_phil

References

Martínez-Arboleda, A. (2013) The OpenLIVES Pedagogy: Oral History of Spanish Migration, Collaborative Student Research, Open Practice and Transformational Education for a Radically Better Society. International Technology, Education and Development Conference Proceedings, pp. 208-217.

ONS (2014) Annual Population Survey. URL (last accessed 14 May 2015): https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/articles/804.aspx

Pegg, A., Waldock, J., Hendy-Isaac, S. and Lawton, R. (2012) Pedagogy for employability. URL (last accessed 14 May 2015): https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/sites/default/files/pedagogy_for_employability_update_2012.pdf