Over the last three weeks I’ve done two brown bag presentations, one on open education and one of practical use of social media.
Practical Social Media
The second of the two presentation is an introduction to practical social media through the eyes of one practitioner… me. This is a record of the presentation from ustream.
practical social media
Open Education
The presentation on open education was a tour of different projects that deal with the differing ideas of openness. One can think of openness in the sense of making content available (as in the case of the Open Courseware initiative at MIT) and the other being openness of the learning process itself. These links are from the presentation and give an introduction to the topic.
Quick intro to open education. Notes from an informal brown bag lunch.
Uh… What?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_education
Not super clear is it?
There are many different kinds
Lots of available material
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Literature/21L-001Fall-2008/CourseHome/index.htm
Here’s an example
But there’s more.
Other stuff that it works for
Cool initiative
Don’t know how big it will get.
But what about my Intellectual propertySo. Why would we want to do this?
Further reading
And, if you like… a quote via @jonmott of BYU. Copied from http://foucaultblog.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/quote-of-the-moment/ and written by Foucault.
I lecture at a rather special place, the Collège de France, whose function is precisely not to teach. What I find very pleasing about the situation is that I don’t feel like I’m teaching, that is, I don’t feel that I am in a relationship of power with my students. A teacher is someone who says: “There are a certain number of things you don’t know, but you should know.” He starts off by making the students feel guilty. And then he places them under an obligation, saying: “I’m the one who knows these things that you should know and I’m going to teach them to you. And once I’ve taught them to you, you’re going to have to know them. And I’m going to verify whether you really do know them.” So there’s verification, a whole series of relationships of power. But at the Collège de France, students take only the courses they want to take. And anybody can sit in on classes, anybody from retired army officers to fourteen-year-old lycéens. They come if they are interested, otherwise they stay home. So who is tested, who is under power? At the Collège de France, it’s the teacher. (1975)”
Practical social media