Hi,
I would love to attend this event, but Coventry is an ocean away from me. Are there provisions to attend via Web conference or at least record
and disseminate?
Looking forward to your response (and loving what I see at #disruptivemedia),
Robert Grégoire
Développement d’affaires et recherche/Business Development & Research
Groupe des technologies de l'apprentissage (GTA)/Learning Technologies Group
Direction générale des technologies
Université de Moncton
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De la part de Daniel Villar-Onrubia
Envoyé : 12 novembre 2014 15:41
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Objet : Open Education: Condition Critical
Dear all,
I hope this event is of interest to many of you.
Best wishes,
Dr Daniel Villar-Onrubia
Online International Learning Programme Manager
Coventry University - Centre for Global Engagement
The Centre for Disruptive Media presents:
Open Education: Condition Critical
A panel exploring opportunities to critically and creatively experiment
with different ideas of what the university and education can be
http://disruptivemedia.org.uk/
Thursday November 20th 4:30-6:30pm
Coventry University
Disruptive Media Learning Lab
3rd floor Frederick Lanchester Library
Panellists:
Sean Dockray (The Public School)
Richard Hall (De Montfort University Leicester)
Shaun Hides (Coventry University)
Sharon Irish (University of Illinois/FemTechNet)
Pauline van Mourik Broekman (Mute)
Free entrance
Please register at: http://criticalopeneducation.eventbrite.co.uk
What for decades could only be dreamt of is now almost within reach: the widespread provision of free online
education, regardless of a student’s geographic location, financial status or ability to access conventional institutions of learning. Yet for all the hype-cycle that has been entered into over MOOCs, many experiments with Open Education (OE) do not appear
to be designed to challenge the becoming business of the university or alter Higher Education in any really fundamental way. If anything, they seem more likely to lead to a two-tier system,
in which those who can’t afford to pay (so much) to attend a traditional university, or belong to those groups who prefer not to move away from home (e.g. lower-income families), have to make do with a poor, online, second-rate alternative education produced
by a global corporation.
Open Education: Condition Critical will thus examine some of the opportunities that exist for experimenting,
critically and creatively, with very different ideas of what the university and education can be in the 21st century. In doing so, rather than focusing on the 2012 batch of extremely publicity-savvy xMOOCs (Edx, Udacity, FutureLearn etc.), it will draw attention
to a range of more radical developments in the Open Education arena. They include The Public School, FemTechNet’s DOCCs (Distributed Open Collaborative Courses), the self-organised ‘free universities’ associated with the Occupy, anti-austerity and student
protests, and even so-called ‘pirate’ libraries such as libgen.org and aaaaarg.org.
Open Education: Condition Critical has been organised to mark the publication of Open
Education: A Study in Disruption (London: Rowman and Littlefield International, 2014), co-authored by Coventry University’s Open Media Group and Mute Publishing as a critical experiment with both collaborative, processual writing and concise, medium-length
forms of shared attention.