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Testing the limits of university teaching
MOOCs, Multimedia and Distributed Collaboration
George Roberts26/06/2012
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Limits of navigation
• MOOCs• Multimedia for assessment• Distributed collaboration
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Audiographic Simulcast• Blackboard Collaborate in use
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• It is not that we ignore web-based and internet technologies at our peril… In truth, we ignore the traditional university at our peril. (M Roberts 2012)
Matters affecting UVa
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Superposition of randomness
• superposition of randomness leading to a transforming experience
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Related randomness?
• Identity• Community• Literacy
• Three topics:– MOOCs– Academic Multimedia– Distributed Collaboration
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Old MOOCs, new MOOCs, red MOOCs blue MOOCs
MOOCsMassive Open Online Courses
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Old MOOCs from 2008
• Explicit pedagogical perspective– Social constructivist, dialogic, actor networks
• Distributed, open source platform components– Wikis, WordPress, Moodle
• Intentional social media conversations– Twitter, Facebook, Blogs
• Open challenge to institutions– Access, environment, IPR, assessment
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New MOOCs from 2011
• Tacit pedagogical perspective– Instructivist, pragmatic, realist, – Authentic: employment oriented
• Consolidated platforms– Incidental social media
• Institutional counter-position– Elite, neo-colonial (?)
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Our MOOC• First Steps into Learning and Teaching in Higher
Education (FSLT12)
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MOOC Problematics
• Old MOOC– Navigation, chaos, disorientation, exposure,
tuition
• New MOOC– Packaging, automation, two-tier
• All MOOCs– Motivation
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MOOC benefits
• Old MOOC– Autonomy
• New MOOC– Authority
• All MOOC– Access, authenticity
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MOOC Limits
• Identity– Embodiment– Preference: introversion extroversion
• Community– Serendipity
• Literacy– Genre, paralinguistics
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Post-Text Problematics: Social Citation and Valorisation of Knowledge
Multimedia for Assessment
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Presentations to virtual conferences
• Diverse practice– Audio enhanced
• Some excellent– But, some 2000
word essays on 12 ppt slides
• Markers unfamiliar with the genre– What is
scholarship in this medium?
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Other Multimedia Assessment Examples
• Video essays– Sustained inquiry
• Multimedia learning journals– Reflective collection
• Audio feedback
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Valorisation of knowledge
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Multimedia scholarship
In 2003, Stephen Downes wrote
• multimedia computing … provides scholarly discourse with great opportunities, but also problematizes that discourse (Ingraham, 2000)
• large bodies of continuous text … are likely to remain the primary medium for the dissemination of scholarship (Ingraham & Bradburn, 2003)
• the 'electronic book' is likely to become the primary medium … for the dissemination of text-mediated scholarly discourse (Ingraham & Bradburn, 2003a), [and] disseminating educational multimedia.
But, let’s have a look at Downes 2003
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Multimedia assessment limits
• Community– Traditions of the disciplines
• Identity– Our scholarly selves
• Literacy– The Genre is new– The links degrade, coping with transience
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Being together in the bodyDistributed-collaborative learning sets
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Distributed Learning Sets
• Explicit Intended Outcome– As a group produce a seminar addressing a
current issue in higher education learning and teaching
• Tacit Intended Outcome– Discover ways to work as a group, which allow for
distributed collaboration: across the three Brookes campuses and several other universities
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Distribution in two ways
In small groups to collaborate in production of the seminars
– Forums, email, Google Docs, wiki
In Plenary to attend/review sessions– Matterhorn Lecture Capture + Podcast
Producer
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Distribution issuesSmall groups
– Defaulted to Face to face• Disadvantage the minority
Plenary– Groups focused on own performances– Low attention/attendance to other groups
seminars• Substantial curriculum input missed
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A controlled classroom environment isn’t a bad thing.
(Krauss 2012)
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Distributed Collaboration Limits
• Identity– We know ourselves in the reflection of others
• Community– Cohesion through diversity
• Literacy– Paralinguistics
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Discussion
• Turn to the person beside you – or to the chat stream in Collaborate
• In light of: MOOCs, Multimedia and Distributed Collaboration
• Where are your limits of navigation?
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Disruptive?Technology
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QUESTION: If SOPA/PIPA [or the Digital Economy Act in the UK] had been passed into U.S. law in 2002, would Wikipedia exist today? If either law had passed in 2012, would Wikipedia exist in 2022? Why or why not? Discuss.
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If you cannot answer that question, you are not literate nor are you in control of your
life—even if you think you are.
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Watersheds?
• Narrative ? > 50,000 years• Writing c. 5,000 years• Printing c. 500 years• Perspective c. 500 years• Steam c. 250 years• Mass literacy c. 150 years• Cinema c. 100 years• Internet c. 35 years
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Christ Handing the Keys to St. Peter, Perugino, 1481
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Discourses around higher education are:
“… a field of competition for the legitimate exercise of symbolic
violence,
… an arena of conflict between rival principles of legitimacy, and
competition for political, economic and cultural power
(Bourdieu 1993, 121)
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Literacy - including digital - is the practice of enunciation in a
community:
“speaking” in the broadest sense, projecting an identity
with, through and to others who concur
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digital literacy cannot be separated from other
educational - or social, or economic, or political -
developments.
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Digital literacy is far more than skills with keyboard & apps.
It is how we & our students negotiate the
ICT-mediated frontier between rival principles.
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Limits of navigation
• MOOCs– Radical openness is not for
everyone
• Multimedia for assessment– Text citation and commentary asserts itself through
every fissure
• Distributed collaboration– We crave – and are good at – contact