Abstract
When faced with a broken and out of date methodology, structure and systems, how do we as academics find our purpose, value and relevance within the 21st Century classroom or perhaps a more relevant question should be how would we re-imagine what that classroom could look like. Here, I am not meaning what shape of rectangle or square room and colour chairs or even what type of physical building, I am thinking what tools, skills will we, as learners and teachers, need to make this 'place' an effective, enjoyable environment to experiment and work together to help create and propel the next wave of creatives out into the big wide world!
In 2011 Peter Norvig and Sebastian Thrun at Stanford University shook up educational institutions by opening their doors to their ‘Introduction to Artificial Intelligence’ interactive MOOC (Massively Open Online Class). Two years earlier in the back of a converted cinema in the UK [1], Jonathan Shaw and his team seeking to enhance student engagement with photography and connect them with their wider professional networks, had explored a similar idea, allowing the world to peer into their classroom. Picturing the Body better known by its hashtag #picbod, a free and open undergraduate photography class was born. #picbod together with its sister open class #phonar (short for Photography and Narrative) are now referred to as Open Boundary [2] by JISC as a third distinct thread running within the wider weave of what might be commonly termed MOOCs.
Session
This conversation will reflect [3] upon and explore the motivations, rational and strategies for development and support of open4, online courses specifically within context of arts, media and design education.
It is aimed at people who are interested in exploring how the practitioner led educator may have privileged insights into defining new practices for the fast changing higher education and professional landscapes.
Online Preparatory Resources
1 “Global Transmedia MOOCs” Virtual community pioneer Howard Rheingold interviews educator Jonathan Shaw about his groundbreaking experiments in online, collaborative learning in the arts. http://dmlcentral.net/blog/howard-rheingold/global-transmedia-moocs
2 “MOOCs and Open Courses – what’s the difference?" http://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/moocs-and-open-courses/
3 “The Expanded Classroom: The Impact of Technology in a Connected World" http://www.slideshare.net/JonathanShaw2/cu-expanding-classroominted2013final
4 “'We're All Game Changers Now': Open Education - A Study in Disruption" http://liquidbooks.pbworks.com/w/page/65025071/'We're%20All%20Game%20Changers%20Now'%3A%20Open%20Education%20-%20A%20Study%20in%20Disruption
A bric-a-brac approach to arts & media education!?
1. #bric-a-bracapproach to arts & media education
http://slidesha.re/16lKe2b
#MES2013
Friday 20th September,
Media Education Summit, Sheffield, UK
Jonathan Shaw
Julia Frost
5. #OpenMedia
Om
the 21st century university
an openmedia policy
tactical
sustainable
engaged
visible
collaborative
Approach
#MES2013
http://disruptivemedia.org.uk/open-media-2/
7. attitudes
subject
#MES2013
Develop a relationship which is more
based on our discipline rather than
this hierarchy of student and lecturer
Sean Carroll’s interview for Sony Ericsson on the Networked Society
10. 1,000,000
not alone
a shared desire to know more extends beyond a room of 40 people!
#MES2013
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/itunes-u/photographic-mediations/id573348075?mt=10
Listens
13. #cueafsEast Asian Film Society
open
In 1 week over 300,000 people read our student’s reviews from Udine Far East Film Festival
#MES2013
http://cueafs.com/
14. certified
leading the uk in creative & professional certification
#adobeeduCertified Associate
#MES2013
http://www.prodigylearning.com/news-events/21-aca-world-championship
15. open
intersection of political, social and cultural change
#creativeactCreative Activism
#MES2013
http://creativeactivism.net
37. the power of p2p
collective working oncampus & online simultaneously
#MES2013
38. ...by reaching further afield, the feedback
you get is likely to be richer and more
diverse, helping you to see new angles
and make faster progress.
...a ready-made international network.
...regularly interact with authority figures
on the course
http://www.topuniversities.com/blog/moocs-student%E2%80%99s-perspective
the coventry experience
MOOCs: A Student’s Perspective
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