Amber Thomas, JISC. ALT-C September 2012

When ideals meet reality:lessons from open source, open

standards and open access

curves and cycles: hype, change, learn

cynical

jaded

purist

evangelisti

c

curious

pragmatic

polar- -isation

VLEs are dead

MOOCstake over

The End of the university

I hate badges

“The use of technology seems to divide people into strong pro- and anti-camps

or perhaps utopian and dystopian perspectives”

Martin Weller, The Digital Scholar

dialectics of open and free

branching

tipping points into the mainstream

pace

key messages

We are all unique in our encounters with new things. Polarisation often masks the real questions. There is often a dialectic around open and free. Often it’s not just one model that comes to dominate. Sometimes when mainstreaming happens we don’t recognise it. Change can take a lot longer than we hope

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