Keynote presentation at Open UTAS to the World, University of Tasmania, 28th November, 2013.

1. The New Openness Movement:
Unpacking the Hype from the Hope
Professor Mark Brown
Open UTAS to the World
28th November, 2013

2. About Massey…
Albany
Manawatu
Distance
Worldwide
Wellington

3. About Massey…

4. About Massey…

5. About Massey…

6. About Massey…
Previously international students had to
come to us
Now we can go
to them…

11. In unpacking the hype from the hope…
…the light comes through the cracks!

13. 1. What is openness?

14. 1. What is openness?
Openness is the new normal….

15. 1. What is openness?
Openness is the new normal….
• Open access
• Open source
A LOT OF
CONFUSION
• Open learning
• Open courses
• Open resources

16. 1. What is openness?
Which of the following statements is your preferred description of
the concept of Open Educational Resources?
Bossu, C., Brown, M., & Bull, D. (2013). Adoption, use and management of Open Educational Resources to
enhance teaching and learning in Australia. Report for the Office of Learning and Teaching. Australia.

17. 1. What is openness?
Openness is the new normal….
• Open access
• Open source
A LOT OF
CONFUSION
• Open learning
• Open courses
• Open resources

18. 1. What is openness?
Radical openness…
http://blog.ted.com/2013/01/17/a-brand-new-ted-book-radical-openness/

19. 1. What is openness?
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfkRZWFHpss
Radical openness…
Video

20. 1. What is openness?
“Openness is the space where ideas can have sex”

21. 1. What is openness?
The openness movement is a bit like teenage
sex. Everybody says they're doing it but in reality very
few really are. And those who are doing it aren't doing it
very well.

22. 1. What is openness?
In sum…
1. Collaboration
1. Transparency
2. Sharing
3. Empowerment
Source: http://www.ted.com/talks/don_tapscott_four_principles_for_the_open_world_1.html

23. Questions…
“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”
Francis Bacon
Twitter @mbrownz

24. 2. What is the
significance?

25. 2. What is the
significance?
Openness is…

26. 2. What is the
significance?
Openness is…
• changing our lives…

27. 2. What is the
significance?
Source: KPCB Internet Trends 2013
1983
“Open Living”
2013
Long ago people danced at concerts, now they
video, share, click and tweet!

28. 2. What is the
significance?
But „openness‟ comes at a cost

29. 2. What is the
significance?
Openness is…
• changing our lives
• changing our scholarship…

30. 2. What is the
significance?
http://www.bloomsburyacademic.com

31. 2. What is the
significance?
http://www.slideshare.net/mbrownz

32. 2. What is the
significance?
Openness is…
• changing our lives
• changing our scholarship
• changing our teaching…

33. 2. What is the
significance?
Thepedagogyof abundance
The economics of design, production and delivery…

34. 2. What is the
significance?

35. 2. What is the
significance?
Openness is…
• changing our lives
• changing our scholarship
• changing our teaching
• changing our institutions…

36. 2. What is the
significance?
An avalanche is coming. It‟s hard of course, to say exactly when.
It may be sooner than we think. Certainly there is no better time
than now to seek to
understand
what lies ahead for
higher
education – and to prepare (p.8)
Barber, M., Donnelly, K., &Rizvi, S. (2013). An avalanche is coming: Higher education
and the revolution ahead. Institute for Public Policy Research. London.

37. 2. What is the
significance?

38. 2. What is the
significance?

39. 2. What is the
significance?

40. 2. What is the
significance?

41. 2. What is the
significance?
Video

42. 2. What is the
significance?

43. 2. What is the
significance?

44. 2. What is the
significance?

45. 2. What is the
significance?
Why Massey joined Open2Study....
• To enhance our reputation
• To profile our signature platforms
• To promote Massey to international students
• To enhance student retention – selecting the right course
• To promote student readiness – learning to be an online learner
• To help shape the platform and learning design model
• To learn from the experience – innovation in learning design

46. 2. What is the
significance?
FOMO
Weller, M., & Anderson, T. (2013). Digital resilience in higher education. European
Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning. 16 (1), 53-66.

48. 2. What is the
significance?

49. 2. What is the
significance?

50. 2. What is the
significance?

52. 2. What is the
significance?

53. 2. What is the
significance?

54. 2. What is the
significance?
Video

55. 2. What is the
significance?

56. 2. What is the
significance?

57. 2. What is the
significance?

58. 2. What is the
significance?
What does all this mean?

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

60. Questions…
“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”
Francis Bacon
Twitter @mbrownz

61. 3. What are the competing
drivers?

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

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

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

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

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

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

68. Openness for what…
Learning to change and
transform
Learning to live
together
Learning to do
Digital
Identity
Learning to
know
Learning
to be
Digital Citizenship
Digital
Inclusion

69. Conclusion

70. Conclusion
You can't predict the future,
just like you can't touch the stars...

71. Conclusion
“All education springs from images of the future and all
education creates images of the future. Thus all
education, whether so intended or not, is a preparation
for the future. Unless we understand the future for which
we are preparing we may do tragic damage to those we
teach.”
(Toffler, 1974).

72. Conclusion
Key questions about Openness…
• Who is telling the story?
• What is the story they are
telling?
• What story isn‟t being
told?
• What‟s missing from the
story?

73. Questions…
“He [she] who asks a question
is a fool for five minutes; he [she] who
does not ask a question remains a fool forever.”
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