1. Open educaton: Are we at the
crossroads?
Markus Deimann and Sandra Peter
Markus.Deimann@FernUni-Hagen.de
Sandra.Peter@sydney.edu.au
OCWC2013

2. Agenda
• Openness and open educaton
• Historical changes to the movement
• A move towards commodificaton
• New forms of exclusion
• Discussion

3. A problematc concept
• What is your understanding of open
educaton?

4. An historical reconstructon (Peter & Deimann, 2013)

5. The new landscape and discourse
• Coursera, Udacity, EdX
• Open2Study
• The Mechanical MOOC
• cMOOCs

8. A critcal evaluaton: Foucault
• Atempt to turn philosophy upside down by questoning
fundamental assumptons about the subject and the society
• Special understanding of power and knowledge
• “Discipline and Punishment” implicatons for educaton:
Classroom as a paradigm of discipline, normalisaton and
regulaton (tmetable, curriculum). Evaluaton and
examinatons as manifestatons for the ordering of students
and subjects.
• The Enlightenment, which discovered the libertes, also
invented the disciplines
• Educatonal insttutons as gatekeepers for the allocaton of
knowledge and power

9. Discussion
Open Educaton is not solely a “humanistc
project” (educaton for all, democratzaton of
educaton) but also a form of exclusion (those
who are unwilling to open up)

10. QUESTIONS?
Markus.Deimann@FernUni-Hagen.de
Sandra.Peter@sydney.edu.au