Delivered at ‘Letting the Students be, Responsibly: Learning, Experience and Standardization in Higher Education’ for the HEA at Bangor University, 16 May 2013
3. ENTER EDUPUNK: “Corporations are selling us back our ideas,
innovations, and visions for an exorbitant price. I want them all
back, and I want them now!” (Jim Groom an instructional-technology
specialist and adjunct professor at the University of Mary Washington, 2008)
877 ‘results’
(13/5/13)
DiY HE?
6. “The End of the University as We Know It”?
(The Observer, 2013)
“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)
OCW 2011: 100 million; by 2021: 1 billion?
OpenLearn 2011: 40 million
OER University OpenLearn
Peer to Peer University Jorum
iTunesU OCW
MITx/edX Udacity
The Khan Academy Coursera
7. http://image.guardian.
co.uk/sys-
images/Education/Pix/
pictures/2008/06/16/p
unks460.jpg
“Punk was actively discouraged if not banned during 1976 and
1977, first by the music industry, then the newspapers and the
politicians, then the public at large. This resulted in an underground
distribution and production network which turned necessity into a
virtue: it was easy and cheap, go and do it. These ideals of access –
which have been expanded by the internet – have become one of
Punk’s enduring legacies.”
(Savage, 2001, England’s Dreaming, p. xv, emphasis added)
8. Producing students
Changing the student role through
the ‘Student as Producer’ concept:
emphasising research-focused
teaching and learning
Lincoln University: Chemistry FM
Free advertising?
UCBC: Criminology VHS
10. Employability expectations from employers:
1. Business and
customer awareness
2. Problem solving
3. Communication and
literacy
4. Application of
numeracy
5. Application of information
technology
6. A ‘can-do’ approach
7. Entrepreneurship/enterprise
(Pegg et al, 2012, Pedagogy for
Employability, p19)
11. Without boundaries
New disciplinary borders?
Mobile students?
New collaboration?
Open students?
‘The only way is ethics’? (LSE Students
Union, 2011)
12. ‘Camera lucida’ and Educational Punctums
“it is this element which rises from the scene, shoots out
of it like an arrow, and pierces me. A Latin word exists to
designate this wound, this prick, this mark made by a
pointed instrument: the word suits me all the better in
that it also refers to the notion of punctuation, and
because the photographs I am speaking of are in effect
punctuated, sometimes even speckled with these
sensitive point; precisely, these marks, these wounds are
so many points. This second element which will disturb
the studium I shall therefore call punctum;
for punctum is also: sting, speck, cut, little hole – and
also a cast of the dice. A photograph’s punctum is that
accident which pricks me (but also bruises me, is
poignant to me”. (Barthes, 1981: 26-7, emphasis added).
