Considering networked and open practices with academic staff (part of Postgrad Certificate)

1. Digital, networked, and open education
Image: CC BY 2.0 woodleywonderworks
CELT  PG Cert  April 2018

2. Catherine Cronin
@catherinecronin  catherinecronin.net
CELT, National University of Ireland, Galway

3. networked
educators
networked
students
Physical
Spaces
Bounded
Online
Spaces
Open
Online
Spaces
Image: CC BY-SA 2.0 Catherine Cronin, built on Networked Teacher image CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Alec Couros
higher education

4. open education
goal  philosophy  collective term
resources, tools and practices
that employ a framework of open sharing
to improve educational access
and effectiveness worldwide
- The Open Education Consortium

5. OER Open Educational Resources
OEP Open Educational Practices

6. CC BY 4.0 David Wiley, OER 101
Open Educational Resource (OER)
“the 5Rs” = permissions

7. collaborative practices that include the creation, use
and reuse of OER and pedagogical practices
employing participatory technologies and social
networks for interaction, peer-learning, knowledge
creation & sharing, and empowerment of
learners.
Open Educational Practices (OEP)
References: Andrade, et al. (2011); Beetham, et al. (2012); Czerniewicz, et al.
(2016, 2017); Ehlers (2011); Geser (2007); Hodgkinson-Williams (2014)

8. OER Open Educational Resources
OEP Open Educational Practices

9. pen
Image: CC0 by Nadine Shaabana
video link

10. Image: CC BY 2.0 erikpesik (Flickr)
“Tools are made by people, and most (or even all) educational
technologies have pedagogies hard-coded into them in advance.
This is why it is so essential we consider them carefully and critically
— that we empty all our LEGOs onto the table and sift through them
before we start building. Some tools are decidedly less innocuous
than others. And some tools can never be hacked to good use.”
- Jesse Stommel

11. (i) whether, why, how, and to what extent
academic staff use OEP for teaching, and
(ii) shared characteristics of ‘open educators’, if any.
my PhD research
Openness and praxis:
Exploring the use of OEP by academic staff
in higher education

12. Image: CC0 photo by Saksham Gangwar

13. Institutional, role-based identity DIGITAL IDENTITY Open, networked, ‘Resident’
identity
Not using social media, or
personal use only
DIGITAL NETWORKING Using social media personally
& professionally
Using VLE & email only DIGITAL TOOLS FOR
TEACHING
Using VLE & email
as well as open tools & social
media
Not intentionally using OER OER Intentionally using OER
less open more open
digital practices

14. Balancing
privacy and openness
Developing
digital literacies
Valuing
social learning
Challenging traditional
teaching role expectations
4 dimensions shared by open educators

15. Potential benefits of openness
• Increased access to education
• Decreased cost (e.g. OER, open textbooks)
• Developing digital, data, & network literacies
• New forms of dialogue and global collaboration
• Student agency & empowerment
• Bridging formal & informal learning
• Public outreach and engagement
• Enhancing & expanding the scope of learning

16. Barriers & tensions re: openness
• Lack of…
o Awareness
o Understanding (e.g. permissions, attribution)
o Skills (e.g. digital/information literacies)
o Support
• Balancing privacy and openness
• Coordination across the institution
• Incompatibility between existing institutional cultures &
the philosophy of open education

17. Balancing privacy & openness
Image: CC BY 2.0 woodleywonderworks

18. Balancing privacy and openness
will I share openly?
whom will I share with? (context collapse)
who will I share as? (digital identity)
will I share this?
MACRO
MESO
MICRO
NANO

19. Practicing openness is:
 complex
 personal
 contextual
 continually negotiated

20. Image: CC0 Stijn Swinnen
It has never been more
risky to operate in the open.
It has never been more vital
to operate in the open.
Martin Weller (2016)

21. Thank You!
Catherine Cronin
@catherinecronin
catherinecronin.net
Le spectre de la rose Jerome Robbins Dance Division
from the New York Public Library (public domain)