1. The document proposes the idea of a university operating as a hackerspace through a cross-university Masters by Research degree program. 2. This program would treat the entire campus as a hackerspace, involving staff and facilities across schools in an anti-disciplinary manner. 3. Students and teachers would both learn through experiments and challenges adopting a hacker ethic, in line with the concept of the student as producer where research forms the basis of learning and the institution learns from its teacher-student scholars.

1. ‘The university as a hackerspace’
Joss Winn, Centre for Educational Research and Development, University of Lincoln
jwinn@lincoln.ac.uk
http://cerd.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk #digifest14

2. http://studentasproducer.lincoln.ac.uk
StudentasProducerishackingtheuniversity

3. LNCD is (was) Not a
Central Development
group!
http://lncd.lincoln.ac.uk/
project/institutional-openness-
case-study
DevXS
hackathon
(2011)
http://devxs.org.uk

4. Digital Education
1. A cross-university digital education group (a committee, working group, network?)
2. Incentives and recognition (teacher education leading to credit and funding)
3. An anti-disciplinary Masters research programme (the ‘university as a hackerspace’)
4. A framework for re-engineering space and time (the ‘idea of the university’:
open, flipped, virtual, edgeless, etc.)
http://joss.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/2014/03/03/digital-education/

5. ‘The university as a hackerspace’
• Cross-university Masters by Research degree
• The ‘campus’ = the ‘hackerspace’ (virtual/material/
open/edgeless)
• Anti-disciplinary: Democratically involves staff and
facilities from across all schools
• Experiments/challenges, not ‘modules’; Hacker ethic.
• Student as Producer: Research-based; teachers and
students learn from each other. The institution learns
from its teacher-student scholars. A ‘Skunkworks’ for
the institution.
• Can a university contain (intellectually, politically,
practically) a hackerspace? Are the two organisational
and educational forms compatible?