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Developing students (and staff) as content scavengers
Nick Pearce@drnickpearce
n.a.pearce@durham.ac.uk
about menew ‘open’old ‘open’what is open?staff as scavengers2 case studiesA thought about student scavengersopen-ish education
• Sociologist – with a pinch of STS• E-science, digital scholarship• Now teach sociology + anthropology– Foundation centre
• CSAP YouTube project• SCORE fellow
new ‘open’
•New technologies•Contrast with old/closed•Institutional level•Reveals problems •Limited adoption
old ‘open’
• Education and scholarship have always been about sharing
• New technologies become old, but persist
What is open?
• Making something available to everybody• Is this an ideal? – Not everybody will ever have access– Or interest– Or capacity
Powerpoint, BB and Slideshare
• New feature of BB9 of slideshare ‘mashup’• Already use for conference slides• Sex, Death and Monkeys
What are the implications for making lecture slides publicly available?
• Pros– Increased prominence– PR– ego-boost
• Cons– Fiddly licensing– fixation with numbers– Standalone vs lecture?
Reading pack and the CLA
• Mashup of content• Constraints on content and reach• Popular with students• New technology brings exciting possibilities
• What would open licensing add?– for my students?– for me?
Open-ish Education
• If open is an ideal, could open-ish be desirable?
• Mixture of closed and open
Students as scavengers
• From YT project• Encourage existing
practice• ‘clickolage’• But how?• VLE blog was a disaster
• V. new social media site• Visual sharing• ‘Open’ by ignoring copyright• Starting to be used in education
Questions?
• Should I encourage student scavengers?• How best to do this?• What are the issues?– Digital literacy?– Tools?– Rights?
Discussion
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Or even…n.a.pearce@durham.ac.uk