Opening The Ivory Tower: Global HIgher Ed Entails Opennes. Presentation for the Faculty Resource Network Symposium 2014: The Global Imperative of Higher Education.

1. FRN Symposium 2014
Opening The Ivory
Tower
Global Higher Ed Entails Openness
Antonio Vantaggiato
Universidad del Sagrado Corazón
www.zenofteaching.us

2. stemmed.sagrado.edu

3. zenofteaching.us

4. Global —> Open
Let The Sunshine In —And
Give students exposure
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5. Open
Free exchange of ideas and educational production
among students, faculty and the outside world.
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6. Text
Global?
Really :-)

7. Open Ethos
Open Ed Resources
Open Journals
Some Rights
Reserved (cc)
Open class?
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8. “The limits of my language are the
limits of my world”
-L. Wittgenstein

9. Learning...
Learners should
experience chaos &
confusion
Autonomy is key
Learners in control of their
learning
Openness
—George Siemens
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(http://www.flickr.com/photos/patsch/)

10. Classroom Is The World…
But, is the world allowed into the classroom?
Don’t Lock Educational Production Within A
Classroom’s Berlin Wall
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11. Photo: Some rights reserved by pollenoid (https://www.flickr.com/photos/stuifmeel/)

12. Photo: Some rights reserved by Tom Hart (https://www.flickr.com/photos/thart2009/)

13. LMS
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14. “Let's shutter our ‘learning management
systems’ and build ‘understanding
augmentation networks’ instead,
moving away from educational assembly
lines toward intellectual ecosystems of
interest and curiosity.”
-Gardner Campbell

16. From NMC’s Horizon Project 10-year Anniversary
Retreat, Austin, January 2012

17. Challenging?

18. Lecture
c. 1350

20. “We should aim to recreate the environment that
made the Internet itself spring into existence, in
academic institutions.”
—Dave Winer
Scripting News, 31 May 2011; http://scripting.com/stories/2011/05/31/isThereAnEducationBubble.html

21. The WWW Is Open*
* A t L e a s t F o r N o w

22. 30 April
1993:
CERN
puts
Web in
public
domain

23. Content
• Produced
• Packaged
• Distributed
• Delivered
Are we just
delivering
what some
produced
and some
will
consume??

25. The Dictatorship of Content
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26. Interview
Your Job As A Teacher
Wesch & Campbell, EDUCAUSE ELI 2012

27. Text
Learning Worlds
Are Open Ecologies

28. Harry Potter Wordwide Movement
fanfiction.com / fanfiction.net
Communities / Discussion forums / stories /
podcasts
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29. John Seely Brown:
“Are we prepared for students used to
creating their own global collective,
intertwined with a networked imagination?
The Entrepreneurial
Learner
in the Network Age
http://dmlcentral.net/sites/dmlcentral/files/resource_files/jsb_transcript_slides.pdf

30. Image: some rights reserved / cc Juan Pablo Olmo - Flickr
World of
Warcraft’s
Knowledge
Ecology
Open
Environment
Crowdsourced
Manuals,
Tutorials, Help

31. What Now?

32. http://ds106.us

33. ds106rad.io/listen

34. MOOC
“What we found was that in a MOOC, instead of
the classroom being the center, it becomes just
one node of the network of social interactions."
-G. Siemens

35. Open portals inf103.com

36. Interview
We have always underestimated the value of
access to each other. -Clay Shirky

37. “Hell is a place where nothing connects to nothing”
-T.S. Elliot

38. The end.
antonio vantaggiato @avunque
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