Slides from the 3rd International Seminar on Online Higher Education in Management, Santiago, Chile, October 2016. A 20 minute presentation intended to end in questions, the biggest of which being, in an age of plenty, with options for distributed content, distributed connections, distributed accreditation, and tools for personal sense making, whether there is a need for universities and other formal educational institutions any more. Unsurprisingly, the consensus among participants was a slightly equivocal 'yes'. However, thinking more deeply about the nature of those institutions, participants considered ways institutions can become network hubs with blurred boundaries, ways they might continue to preserve/transform culture, and ways they might focus more deeply on values, creativity, meaning, critical thinking, etc. Some great dialogues emerged.
1. Not just about
networks
Jon Dron
Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute
Professor & Chair, SCIS, Athabasca University, Canada
jond@athabascau.ca
http://jondron.athabascau.ca
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3rd International Seminar on Online Higher Education in Management
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Santiago de Chile, 17 - 18 October, 2016
3rd International Seminar on Online Higher Education in Management
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2. What’s the first thing you
do when you want to
learn something?
22. Set dangers
anonymity lack of process
weak social ties
stupid people
lack of caring
bad people
lack of structure
reliability
lack of trust
trolls
blind leading the blind
cultural conflict
25. You are the
product/
you rent
the
product
You use the
product
You
(co-)create
the product
You own
the
product
Ownership and control
AthabascaLanding
26. The owner’s purpose is
rarely to support learning,
rarely to support you.
EdgeRank algorithm: you see
less than 3% of ‘friends’
shared contentYou are the product
28. A safe space
~
A social learning commons
~
A social construction kit
~
No one in control, no hierarchies, few rules
~
Persistent - boundary-crossing - beyond
the course
The Landing
29. much learning
8,700 users
26,000 blog posts
14,000 shared files
7,500 shared bookmarks
4,500 microblog posts
10,000 wiki pages
3,300 discussions530 groups
>20,000 unique visitors a month (>2,000 internal)
~30 courses
~20 research groups
~30 committees/working groups
self-organized
30. Using nets and sets
• Can we/should we let go?
• Who owns the network/set?
• What should our algorithms do?
• How should we teach/research/learn in an
age of plenty?
• What value do we add?
• What is the role of the university when
everyone is a teacher?
