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

Pinterest

• 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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