The limits of university teaching
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The document discusses the evolution and challenges of MOOCs, multimedia for assessment, and distributed collaboration in university teaching, emphasizing the pedagogical shifts from older to newer MOOCs. It highlights the impact of community, identity, and literacy within these frameworks and critiques the limits of current practices. The author argues for a deeper understanding of digital literacy and the necessity of adapting to new educational paradigms amidst technological disruptions.
![Multimedia scholarship
In 2003, Stephen Downes wrote
• multimedia computing … provides scholarly discourse with great
opportunities, but also problematizes that discourse (Ingraham, 2000)
• large bodies of continuous text … are likely to remain the primary medium
for the dissemination of scholarship (Ingraham & Bradburn, 2003)
• the 'electronic book' is likely to become the primary medium … for the
dissemination of text-mediated scholarly discourse (Ingraham & Bradburn,
2003a), [and] disseminating educational multimedia.
But, let’s have a look at Downes 2003](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/2012limitsv1-120626054532-phpapp02/85/The-limits-of-university-teaching-23-320.jpg)
![QUESTION: If SOPA/PIPA [or the
Digital Economy Act in the UK] had
been passed into U.S. law in 2002,
would Wikipedia exist today? If
either law had passed in 2012, would
Wikipedia exist in 2022? Why or why
not? Discuss.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/2012limitsv1-120626054532-phpapp02/85/The-limits-of-university-teaching-35-320.jpg)
The limits of university teaching
- 1. Testing the limits of university teaching MOOCs, Multimedia and Distributed Collaboration George Roberts 26/06/2012
- 2. Limits of navigation • MOOCs • Multimedia for assessment • Distributed collaboration
- 3. Audiographic Simulcast • Blackboard Collaborate in use
- 6. • It is not that we ignore web-based and internet technologies at our peril… In truth, we ignore the traditional university at our peril. (M Roberts 2012) Matters affecting UVa
- 7. Superposition of randomness • superposition of randomness leading to a transforming experience
- 8. Related randomness? • Identity • Community • Literacy • Three topics: – MOOCs – Academic Multimedia – Distributed Collaboration
- 9. Old MOOCs, new MOOCs, red MOOCs blue MOOCs MOOCs Massive Open Online Courses
- 10. Old MOOCs from 2008 • Explicit pedagogical perspective – Social constructivist, dialogic, actor networks • Distributed, open source platform components – Wikis, WordPress, Moodle • Intentional social media conversations – Twitter, Facebook, Blogs • Open challenge to institutions – Access, environment, IPR, assessment
- 12. New MOOCs from 2011 • Tacit pedagogical perspective – Instructivist, pragmatic, realist, – Authentic: employment oriented • Consolidated platforms – Incidental social media • Institutional counter-position – Elite, neo-colonial (?)
- 14. Our MOOC • First Steps into Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (FSLT12)
- 15. MOOC Problematics • Old MOOC – Navigation, chaos, disorientation, exposure, tuition • New MOOC – Packaging, automation, two-tier • All MOOCs – Motivation
- 16. MOOC benefits • Old MOOC – Autonomy • New MOOC – Authority • All MOOC – Access, authenticity
- 17. MOOC Limits • Identity – Embodiment – Preference: introversion extroversion • Community – Serendipity • Literacy – Genre, paralinguistics
- 18. Post-Text Problematics: Social Citation and Valorisation of Knowledge Multimedia for Assessment
- 19. Presentations to virtual conferences • Diverse practice – Audio enhanced • Some excellent – But, some 2000 word essays on 12 ppt slides • Markers unfamiliar with the genre – What is scholarship in this medium?
- 20. Other Multimedia Assessment Examples • Video essays – Sustained inquiry • Multimedia learning journals – Reflective collection • Audio feedback
- 23. Multimedia scholarship In 2003, Stephen Downes wrote • multimedia computing … provides scholarly discourse with great opportunities, but also problematizes that discourse (Ingraham, 2000) • large bodies of continuous text … are likely to remain the primary medium for the dissemination of scholarship (Ingraham & Bradburn, 2003) • the 'electronic book' is likely to become the primary medium … for the dissemination of text-mediated scholarly discourse (Ingraham & Bradburn, 2003a), [and] disseminating educational multimedia. But, let’s have a look at Downes 2003
- 24. Multimedia assessment limits • Community – Traditions of the disciplines • Identity – Our scholarly selves • Literacy – The Genre is new – The links degrade, coping with transience
- 25. Being together in the body Distributed-collaborative learning sets
- 26. Distributed Learning Sets • Explicit Intended Outcome – As a group produce a seminar addressing a current issue in higher education learning and teaching • Tacit Intended Outcome – Discover ways to work as a group, which allow for distributed collaboration: across the three Brookes campuses and several other universities
- 28. Distribution in two ways In small groups to collaborate in production of the seminars –Forums, email, Google Docs, wiki In Plenary to attend/review sessions –Matterhorn Lecture Capture + Podcast Producer
- 29. Distribution issues Small groups – Defaulted to Face to face • Disadvantage the minority Plenary – Groups focused on own performances – Low attention/attendance to other groups seminars • Substantial curriculum input missed
- 30. A controlled classroom environment isn’t a bad thing. (Krauss 2012)
- 31. Distributed Collaboration Limits • Identity – We know ourselves in the reflection of others • Community – Cohesion through diversity • Literacy – Paralinguistics
- 32. Discussion • Turn to the person beside you – or to the chat stream in Collaborate • In light of: MOOCs, Multimedia and Distributed Collaboration • Where are your limits of navigation?
- 35. QUESTION: If SOPA/PIPA [or the Digital Economy Act in the UK] had been passed into U.S. law in 2002, would Wikipedia exist today? If either law had passed in 2012, would Wikipedia exist in 2022? Why or why not? Discuss.
- 36. If you cannot answer that question, you are not literate nor are you in control of your life—even if you think you are.
- 37. Watersheds? • Narrative ? > 50,000 years • Writing c. 5,000 years • Printing c. 500 years • Perspective c. 500 years • Steam c. 250 years • Mass literacy c. 150 years • Cinema c. 100 years • Internet c. 35 years
- 38. Christ Handing the Keys to St. Peter, Perugino, 1481
- 40. Discourses around higher education are: “… a field of competition for the legitimate exercise of symbolic violence, … an arena of conflict between rival principles of legitimacy, and competition for political, economic and cultural power (Bourdieu 1993, 121)
- 42. Literacy - including digital - is the practice of enunciation in a community: “speaking” in the broadest sense, projecting an identity with, through and to others who concur
- 43. digital literacy cannot be separated from other educational - or social, or economic, or political - developments.
- 44. Digital literacy is far more than skills with keyboard & apps. It is how we & our students negotiate the ICT-mediated frontier between rival principles.
- 45. Limits of navigation • MOOCs – Radical openness is not for everyone • Multimedia for assessment – Text citation and commentary asserts itself through every fissure • Distributed collaboration – We crave – and are good at – contact
- 46. Thank you Dr George Roberts OCSLD, Oxford Brookes University June 2012 groberts@brookes.ac.uk