Webinar for Institute of Education, Massey University, postgraduate students, 31st July 2013.

1. Reflections on the New Openness:
A Digital Revolution?
Professor Mark Brown
31st July, 2013
http://www.slideshare.net/mbrownz

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfkRZWFHpss
While you wait for us to start…
Take a look at this brief video…

3. Reflections on the New Openness:
A Digital Revolution?
Professor Mark Brown
31st July, 2013
http://www.slideshare.net/mbrownz

4. http://delfa.massey.ac.nz
• Innovation Hub
• Global Think-tank
• Networked Community
• International Consultancy
• Engine for New Learning Futures
• Leading International Advisory Board
AboutDELFA…

5. DEANZ…

6. A quick survey…
• Who is from the tertiary sector?
• Who is from the schooling sector?
• Who is from the private sector?
• Who is from the early childhood sector?

8. A
Digital
Revolution
or Evolution?

12. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfkRZWFHpss
The power of openness…

13. Openness is the space where ideas can have sex!

14. “The openness movement is a bit like
teenage sex. Everybody says they're doing
it but no one really is. And those who are
doing it aren't doing it very well."

15. 1.What is openness?
2. What is the significance?
3.What are the competing drivers?
Outline…

16. Key message…
“The web of our life is of a mingled yarn,
good and ill together...”
William Shakespeare,
All's Well That Ends Well, Act 4, Scene 3

17. Questions…
“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”
Francis Bacon

18. • Open living
• Open source
• Open access
• Open educational resources
• Open courses
CONFUSION
Openness is the new normal….
1. What is openness?

19. http://www.ted.com/talks/don_tapscott_four_principles_for_the_open_world_1.html
1. Collaboration
1. Transparency
2. Sharing
3. Empowerment
Principles…
1. What is openness?

20. Questions…
“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”
Francis Bacon

21. 2. What isthe significance?
• It‟s changing our lives…
• It‟s changing our institutions…

22. 1983 2013
Long ago people danced at concerts, now they
video, share, click and tweet!
Source: KPCB Internet Trends 2013
2. What isthe significance?

23. Source: KPCB Internet Trends 2013
2. What isthe significance?

24. Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SuNx0UrnEo&feature=youtu.be
2. What isthe significance?

25. 2. What isthe significance?

26. The economics of abundance
The OER movement…
2. What isthe significance?

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35. 2. What isthe significance?

36. FOMO
2. What isthe significance?

37. The traditional educational institutionis being
chiseled away by powerful global forces
and new business models as a multitude
ofalternativeproviders emerge.
What does all this mean?
2. What isthe significance?

38. 3. What are the competing
drivers?

39. “It is the theory that decides what we
can observe…”
Albert Einstein
3. What are the competing
drivers?

40. Knowledge Society
Knowledge Economy
• Online learning
• Blended learning
• Anytime, anywhere learning
Major competing discourses…
E-learning •
Distance education •
Technology-enhanced learning •
Different interest groups and stakeholders borrow the
same „language of persuasion‟to legitimize their own hegemonic agenda
Open nesss

41. Knowledge Society
Knowledge Economy
Reproduction
• Mass education
• Universal standards
• Education as a commodity
• Increased market competition
Major competing discourses…
Different interest groups and stakeholders borrow the
same „language of persuasion‟to legitimize their own hegemonic agenda
• Online learning
• Blended learning
• Anytime, anywhere learning
E-learning •
Distance education •
Technology-enhanced learning •
Open nesss

42. Knowledge Society
Knowledge Economy
Reschooling Reproduction
• xMOOCs
• New pedagogies
• Real world learning
• Education in change
• Mass education
• Universal standards
• Education as a commodity
• Increased market competition
Major competing discourses…
• Online learning
• Blended learning
• Anytime, anywhere learning
E-learning •
Distance education •
Technology-enhanced learning •
Different interest groups and stakeholders borrow the
same „language of persuasion‟to legitimize their own hegemonic agenda
Open nesss

43. Knowledge Society
Knowledge Economy
Deschooling
Reschooling Reproduction
• PLE
• cMOOCs
• Un-curriculum
• Life-long learning
• Mass education
• Universal standards
• Education as a commodity
• Increased market competition
Major competing discourses…
• xMOOCs
• New pedagogies
• Real world learning
• Education in change
• Online learning
• Blended learning
• Anytime, anywhere learning
E-learning •
Distance education •
Technology-enhanced learning •
Different interest groups and stakeholders borrow the
same „language of persuasion‟to legitimize their own hegemonic agenda
Open nesss

44. Reconceptualist
Knowledge Society
Knowledge Economy
Deschooling
Reschooling Reproduction
• Being glocal
• Digital citizenship
• Socially just society
• Education for change
• xMOOCs
• New pedagogies
• Real world learning
• Education in change
• Mass education
• Universal standards
• Education as a commodity
• Increased market competition
Major competing discourses…
• PLE
• cMOOCs
• Un-curriculum
• Life-long learning
• Online learning
• Blended learning
• Anytime, anywhere learning
E-learning •
Distance education •
Technology-enhanced learning •
Different interest groups and stakeholders borrow the
same „language of persuasion‟to legitimize their own hegemonic agenda
Open nesss

45. Conclusion

46. “We shape our dwellings
and afterwards our dwellings shape us”
Conclusion

47. “We tend to overestimatethe effect of a technology in
the short run and underestimate the effect in the
long run.”
Amara‟s Law
Conclusion

48. A conclusion is the place
where you got tired of thinking
Conclusion

49. “He [she] who asks a question
is a fool for five minutes; he [she] who
does not ask a question remains a fool forever.”
Chinese Proverb
Conclusion