1. Taking Care of Business:
Reimagining the Art College
in the 21st century
Reflec%ons
on
Open
Educa%on
for
the
Arts
John Casey!
University of the Arts London
Shaun Hides and Jonathan Shaw !
Coventry School of Art & Design, Coventry University
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2. Challenges
External
• Funding cuts, staff redundancies, course closures
and a changing market
• Demographic trends: ageing society and an
increasingly diverse student population
• Demand outstrips supply
• Growing expectation and need for more flexible
learning opportunities
• ‘Knowledge economy’ discourse mystifies the
fundamentals (Facer, 2009)
#ELIA

3. Challenges
Internal – ‘force multipliers’
• Conservative pedagogical cultures - makes
alternatives difficult to conceptualise
• Managerialism - financial data as the basis for
planning
• Short-termism - concentration on current contexts
limits long-term development
• Inflexibility - in assessment, certification,
administration, employment and budgeting
• Narrow social base - UK visual arts are less diverse
than most disciplines (NALN, 2005)
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4. Trends
in
HE
Demystification, Globalisation, Disaggregation
• Traditional model based on scarcity
• Economic limits of existing model
• Conflation of research with teaching quality
• Cultural Change: Tackling TINA and Entropy
• The Rhetoric of Crisis
The Open Education Environment
• Understanding ‘Open’ & ‘Closed’ Education
• The Open Education Continuum (OU, OER, MOOCs…)
• Public Good and Public Goods – The Emerging Political
Economy of an Open Public Education System
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5. Effects
of
‘Opening
Out’
• Open Ed. & OER: a lightening conductor for
issues related to:
– Power
– Control
– Ownership
– Identity
– Pedagogy
– Tech Infrastructure
– Cultures…
– Policy
– Strategy & New Business Models
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6. #ELIA
Some
UAL
Outputs

7. Ins@tu@on
–
Changing
Mind-­‐sets

8. TACTICAL
COLLABORATIVE
VISIBLE
SUSTAINABLE
ENGAGED
#AdobeEdu12

9. Open
Hybrids
or
Open
Boundary
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listens
“ground-breaking”
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in 10 weeks
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10. Richard Stacy
...Why social media is a dangerous concept
In fact, the more engaging social media
becomes, the less scale it delivers.
Think about it. We all know that social
media is essentially conversational and
personalised. But conversations only
work with a small group of people: the
more people you add to a conversation
(the more scale you add to it), the less
effective it becomes.
“
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11. Effective
...does not have to equal scale!
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12. Collabora@on
and
Partnerships
#ELIA
“Shaking up photo-education”
New Adventures!
...a ‘living’ book-project at www.newlandscapesofphotography.org

13. Consequences–
Changing
Prac@ces

14. Opening
Up
-­‐
to
Business
Proposi@ons
- Culture Change: they way things are done here
- Challenges / Disrupts
– Inflexible processes
– Internal economic models
– Learning credit and assessment practice
– Personal Values / Ideas
– New Economic / Educational Models:
– College as Community not ‘Place’
– Community & Co-Curriculums
– Delivery with Industry CoP
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15. Imaginings
Create ‘Living Laboratories’
• Assessment, accreditation, evidencing, quality
assurance, evidence
Open Ed Collaborative Enterprises
• Tactic to overcome TINA and entropy, ECTS
Feedback into redesign of art education
Technology can enable e.g. Badges. But
drivers (and obstacles) are social, cultural,
educational, economic and political.
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16. John Casey!
j.casey@arts.ac.uk
Shaun Hides!
s.hides@coventry.ac.uk
@ShaunHides_COMC
Jonathan Shaw!
j.shaw@coventry.ac.uk
@time_motion
Presentation available at:
http://slidesha.re/11XmpLL
http://process.arts.ac.uk/
www.disruptivemedia.org.uk
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