This presentation was for the workshop: "Everything starts with an e: employability or ‘empowerability’ for the Social Sciences?" The workshop was part of the Higher Education Academy's Social Sciences workshop and seminar series 2013-14.

1. Higher Education in 201?...199?...
http://www.getting-in.com
“Producing
Students as
Edupunks”
Phil Johnson,
Criminal Justice Lecturer,
UCBC

2. • Higher grades
and greater
confidence.
• Enhanced
identification
with the role of a
BSO.
• Lateral thinking
and reacting to
situations.
• Self and peer
assessment.
http://www.contactnorth.ca/pockets-innovation/border-simulation
(Loyalist College, Ontario, 2013)
• More complex
than previous
teaching via
passive
observations.

3. ‘Nevermind the pedagogues here’s Edupunk’
(Cohen, 2008)
“*Blackboard’s claims+ are not done by technology, but
rather people thinking and working together. Our
technology … doesn’t enhance critical thinking or improve
classroom performance, we do that, together… Corporations
are selling us back our ideas, innovations, and visions for an
exorbitant price.” (Groom, 2008)
2009 ‘A word of the year’ (New York Times)
“an autodidactic approach that spurns
commercialism, mass-market approaches and topdown goal setting.”
Introduced at the University Centre Blackburn College in September 2011.
Introduced at the University of Southern California in March 2012.

4. Laurillard, D. (2008) ‘The teacher as action researcher: Using technology to capture pedagogic form’, Studies in Higher
Education, 33(2), 139-154
Benefits from OEP (open educational practices)
Tutorial: Using a search engine
Learning Outcome: A clear understanding of the
role of the critical factors in the system
Summary: through preparing their own account
of using a search engine, to demonstrate
the role of the critical factors, using the
Library guidelines; presenting it to their
group; defending it against questions and
comments; and revising their account in the awater cycleprocess
Tutorial: On system or
The
light of the tutor’s summary of the
Learning Outcome: A clear understanding of the
discussion
role of the critical factors in the system
Summary: through preparing their own account
animation of the water cycle, to
of the system/process, to demonstrate the
demonstrate the factors, using the
role of the criticalrole of the critical factors,
using the provided; presenting it to their
resourcesOER cycle; presenting it to their
group; defending it against questions and
comments; and revising their animation in
OER
the light of the tutor’s summary of the
discussion
repository

5. The high standards of 21st century
employability
• WMR?
• Current casualties?
• A degree of edupunk?

8. OER REPOSITORIES

9. This image by stockarch / stockarch.com

12. Digital branding?

13. Students as producers of the
social world they live in?
(edupunk?)
“The university is a social project”
(Professor Mike Neary)

14. After using a
statistical test for
differences it was
found that visitors’
attitudes
towards ‘harm’,
‘intent’ and ‘real’
crimes had
changed significantly.
Visual Criminology?
Public Criminology?

15. Possibilities from The hegemony
of the written word in East
Lancashire’s edufactories?
Community-based learning and
Number of
Assessment obligation
“High-Impact Educational
assignments
per module
Practices” (Kuh, 2008)
Course
FdA Criminology (per year)
8
2,500
BA Criminology (per year)
5
4,000 (inc.exams) and
Total
20,000
26,000
The 1:10 ‘Campaign’?
10,000 for the dissertation