Keynote for OSU Innovate 2016 - what does excellence mean in a time of knowledge abundance?

1. EXCELLENCE & THE WILD RUMPUS:
What Networks Mean for Higher Ed
Bonnie Stewart"
University of Prince Edward Island"
Ohio Innovate 2016"
@bonstewart #InnovateOSU"
https://www.flickr.com/photos/geraldbrazell/6389453857"

2. photo credit: Rachel Peters"
A STORY

3. http://www.upei.ca/arts/files/arts/CF411-09S-Quad-7050-MP4_1.jpg"
ABOUT
HIGHER ED

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MGRrO9WH_w"
…AND CHANGE."

5. (and wild things)"

6. SCHOLARLY EXCELLENCE:"
https://www.flickr.com/photos/126451798@N05/15076855933/"

7. https://www.flickr.com/photos/gruenemann/5558993284"

8. scholarship"
what people
had for
lunch"
1. Abundance 2. Networks 3. Excellence"
NETWORKED PRACTICE"

9. INSTITUTIONS"
• Product-focused"
• Mastery"
• Time/space-bound"
• Hierarchical ties"
• Authorship/ plagiarism"
• Audience = teacher"
& NETWORKS:
"
• Process-focused"
• Participation"
• Always accessible"
• Peer-to-peer ties"
• Crowdsourcing"
• Audience = world"
"

10. https://www.flickr.com/photos/jessiewhittle/3400680664/"
Only one
of many
shifts"

11. SOMETIMES CHANGE IS…
SUSPICIOUS. "
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lightfilters/4405147437"

12. New delivery
trends!"
Every.
Single. Week."

13. Scale."

14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment#/media/File:UnemployedMarch.jpg"
Casualization.
Contingency.

15. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/
Parkplatzzufahrthinweisschild_MLP_AG_Corporate_University.JPG"
New management &
governance
visions/divisions."

16. WILD THINGS. MONSTERS."

17. NOT ALL CHANGE IS MONSTROUS."

18. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/94223817176624744/?from_navigate=true"
Not all
suits (or
roles) fit
forever."

19. scholarship"
what people
had for
lunch"
“THE WILD RUMPUS”

20. There’s the rub."

22. We will NOT be
sailing home to
someone who
loves us best
of all"
"
In fact, many
of us will
never achieve
non-contingent
status in the
academy"

23. So. Sad Story.
You can’t go home again.
Let’s all go cry in our
coffee? L"

26. UNPACKING THE RUMPUS:"
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nycgal/92762924"
• Abundance"
• Networked practice"
• Excellence & change"

27. https://www.flickr.com/photos/jaredzimmerman/15728149611/"
Knowledge
Abundance"

28. "For the first time in human history, two
related propositions are true. One, it no
longer is possible to store within the human
brain all of the information that a human
needs.
"
Second, it no longer is necessary to store
within the human brain all of the information
that humans need.
"
Education needs to be geared toward
the handling of data rather than the
accumulation of data.”"
"
- Context for Communication, Berlo, 1975"

29. Structure of Abundance =
NETWORKS"
https://plus.google.com/+DaveGray/posts/CQRVeKEsUvF?
pid=5751686447270321954&oid=117373186752666867801"

30. NETWORKING:
many-to-many communications"
h#p://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/it/thumb/d/d8/Do_Not_Adjust_Your_Set.jpg/280px-Do_Not_Adjust_Your_Set.jpg

31. h#ps://www.flickr.com/photos/ooohoooh/1350774613/
Networks are not just for
consuming, but connecting"

32. Many-to-many communications
allow us to create ourselves
as network nodes, forming
webs of visible (& invisible)
connections"

33. …and
Networked
Practices?

34. In institutional
structures, an
individual has a
role."
"
In a networked
culture, an
individual"
has an identity,
which it is
his/her job to
differentiate."

35. #ed1to1"
RUMPUS."

36. NOT SO RUMPUS."

37. Connecting beyond the walls
of our towers"
https://www.flickr.com/photos/danieldslee/5523383653"

38. Price of admission =
public identity !

40. Good Lord. I think I’ll
just opt out."

41. https://www.flickr.com/photos/vince2012/14557320666/"
There is no
real “out.”
The gates are
open.

42. https://www.flickr.com/photos/piper/19904408/"
"Abundance:"
You can’t avoid
getting wet."
You never get
ALL the water. "

43. https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurgenappelo/5201869924"
Choose ourchannels."

44. …& taming our wild things."
“We’ll eat you up we love you so.”

45. But what about excellence? "
https://www.flickr.com/photos/peter_schauer/2869277129/"

46. http://www.flickr.com/photos/8113246@N02/7932198032
Academia & social media: both
reputational economies"

47. Those within the academy become
very skilled at judging the stuff of
reputations. Where has the person’s
work been published, what claims of
priority in discovery have
they established, how often have
they been cited, how
and where reviewed, what prizes won,
what institutional ties earned, what
organizations led?
Willinsky, 2010"

48. https://www.flickr.com/photos/jonasb/447678323/"

49. Networked practices =
scholarship"
• Scholarship of discovery"
• Scholarship of integration"
• Scholarship of application"
• Scholarship of teaching"
!
(Boyer, 1990)"

50. Just…
scholarship of abundance"
h#ps://www.flickr.com/photos/92998734@N03/8466586880/

51. AND THE PAPERS WANT TO KNOW
WHOSE SHIRT YOU WEAR
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Euskal_Museoa_branding_irons.jpg"

52. UNCOMFORTABLE"
https://www.flickr.com/photos/goellnitz/3692517704"

53. ESPECIALLY THE MORE
WE’RE INVESTED OR ALIGNED
WITH THE STATUS QUO."

54. NAVIGATING COMPLEX SIGNALS:"
https://www.flickr.com/photos/samkim/78838970"https://www.flickr.com/photos/denseatoms/2982105947"

55. Some will come from
scholarly sources:"

56. https://www.flickr.com/photos/kwl/2510060169/"
Still value
& beauty in
familiar
forms

57. Some won’t."

58. Some may
look like
play.

59. or new voices."

60. or community."

61. or criticism."

62. …or care."

63. • What kinds of professional
conversations do you want access
to? With whom? From where?"
• What audiences do you want for
your students?"
• What do you – and your students –
have to offer that isn’t being
seen right now?"

65. LET THE WILD RUMPUS
of abundance & networks &
excellence
BEGIN!"

66. Tell me how your story goes
from here."
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jondoe_264/8127841237"
@bonstewart"
bstewart@upei.ca"