Presentation at #OpenEd18 about the relationship between the Open Education movement and academic innovation

1. Open & Innovation:
Empowering the
Movements…
…or Drowning Them in
Hyperbole?
Rolin Moe, EdD
Director of Academic Innovation
Assistant Professor
Seattle Pacific University
@rmoejo
CC BY 4.0
Paintings: Eugene Delacroix’s The Sea From the
Heights of Dieppe and The Shipwreck of Don Juan.
Both currently on display at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art but *not* part of their open access
collection (on loan from the Louvre)

2. Defining Open Education
Hippopotamus “William,” excavated in 1910.
From the Senworsret Reign (1971-1878 BCE) in
Egypt. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public
Domain.
Is open education, specifically in the
context of the Open Education Conference,
a term defined independent from or
deliberately through its subsets?
*Open Access
*Open Content
*Open Educational Resources
*Open Pedagogy
*Open Source

3. Defining Innovation
Innovation is considered a widely
understood term, but its historical
signification and present uses are
often contradictory and problematic.
Operational Innovation
(Political, Religious, Social,
Technological)
Aspirational Innovation
(New Product, New Process, New
Perspective)
Typical Innovation Usage
(Unmodified Hooray Concept)
Frankish Glass ‘Claw” Beaker (5th-6th Century) in
Germany. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public
Domain.

4. Images of Napoleon Bonaparte: Left by Henri de Toulouse Latrec (1895), right a commissioned weaving based
on a portrait by Francois Gerard (1811). Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public Domain.

5. How do members of the Open Education community
view the relationship of innovation and open?
Form: Discursive Analysis
Objective: Identify & analyze
language used alongside
Innovation and Open Education in
networked publics
Methodology: Capture language
used in hashtags, decode for
volume as well as situated
contexts
Data Sets:
#OpenEd
#OpenEd18 through
#OpenEd11
#OEGlobal &
#OEGlobal18
#OER18 through
#OER14
Painting: Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel
Luetze (1851). Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public Domain

6. Results: Data
>4,000 Tweets (what
constitutes a retweet
versus an amended
tweet?)
>400 accounts (multiple
accounts, parody
accounts)
>25,000 words
(abbreviations,
acronyms, hashtags, @
tags)
Data spans nearly 10
years (October 2009 –
yesterday)

7. Data in Context
1) Most innovation conversations
happening at conferences is
spurred by keynotes and
presentations, articulating rather
than negotiating.
2) Outside of conferences,
innovation conversation regularly
comes out of the sharing of media.
3) When innovation is introduced to a
hashtag w/o prior media or
presentation, it is most often in a
social context.
4) The most common use of
innovation from international
conference hashtags poses as a
technological product outcome.
5) There is an undercurrent in
threads of innovation (as a
positive) as the result of
circumventing bureaucracy and
policy.
6) Disruption theory is not seen as a
positive in the Open community.

8. Considering the Data & Further Research
1. Hashtag engagement has seen a regular decline
that started in 2015. What innovation
conversation is missed due to the constraints of
a hashtag analysis? Are our networked public
conversations reliable enough for discursive
research? Where are other networked publics to
engage?
2. The vast majority of innovation conversation
starts from a piece of
media/presentation/keynote address. While
some of these pieces take a critical perspective
on a topic, most media engagements start from a
positive perspective? How does this impact
discursive analysis?
3. Over 400 twitter accounts were engaged in this
analysis, but it was an example of the long tail –
80% of tweets by 20% of accounts. What voices
are missing, and what perspectives are skewed
because of the volume of the top tweeters?
4. There is a thread of ‘social innovation’ within
conversations incorporating open education, a
research-backed definition but a definition
incongruent with mainstream threads. How does
Open Ed reconcile their perspective on
innovation with mainstream assumptions?

9. Questions & Comments
Wild Horse Felled by a Tiger by Eugene Delacroix
(1828) . Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public
Domain.
Tiger Lying at the Entrance of Its Lair by
Eugene Delacroix (1830). Metropolitan
Museum of Art. Public Domain.