Connections, Community
& Open Educational Practice
In 1998, a digital communications network (DCN) was installed in the north, effectively providing a network to link 58 communities of the Northwest Territories (NWT) to each other and to the south.
“If you generally think of the Internet as ‘a place to look up stuff’ you’re missing the best part.”
Dean Shareski
"When copies are super abundant, stuff which can’t be copied becomes scarce and valuable … A generative value is a quality or attribute that must be generated, grown, cultivated, nurtured. A generative thing can not be copied, cloned, faked, replicated, counterfeited, or reproduced."
Kevin Kelley
Eight Generatives Better Than Free
Immediacy
Personalization
Interpretation
Authenticity
Accessibility
Embodiment
Patronage
Findability
What was most interesting about CCK09 is that the students from the previous year returned to the course again, and in many cases took over the teaching elements of the course.
They did not ask — they did not need to ask.
“Nothing ever quite dies,
it just comes back in a different form.”
Lester Bangs
@brlamb, @giuliaforsythe & @DrGarcia, Gleneagle Secondary School (Coquitlam), Dr. Cheryl Smith, CUNY, John J. College student writing event, Gleneagle Student Choir, Student radio documentary, @noiseprofessor, UNBC Psyc400, @cogdog, @scottlo
At present, Wikipedia hovers at the fringes of academia,
like an uninvited guest.
Wikipedia’s aims are eminently academic, concerned with collecting, processing, storing, and transmitting knowledge.
Judging by the number of the site’s articles and readers, it has been remarkably successful at promoting a culture of intellectual inquiry. Yet it is fairly consistently derided by academics themselves.
John Beasley Murray
Above all, our students use it, openly or otherwise (as they are often explicitly told not to cite Wikipedia articles in term papers), but without necessarily knowing how it works.
They are told that Wikipedia is bad, but they are not often told why; and of course, they find it an incredibly useful resource.
Goals:
(1) To improve Wikipedia’s coverage of selected articles on Latin American literature, particularly those related to dictator novels.
Done: Eight new good articles and one new B-class article.
(2) To submit these articles to Wikipedia review processes, such as peer review, good article nominations and featured article candidates.
Done
(3) To increase the number of featured articles in this area.
Done: Three new featured articles.
These are each article’s Google page ranks,
using the most likely search parameters:
"when one recognises Wikipedia for what it is (and perhaps more importantly for what it is not, and does not, claim to be), the value of academic input can be immense and holds clear benefits for both parties."
"when one recognises Wikipedia for what it is (and perhaps more importantly for what it is not, and does not, claim to be), the value of academic input can be immense and holds clear benefits for both parties."
"The best possible marketing for the university
is the work of its people – so let’s make more of that visible."
Novak Rogic
Arts One Open is an open, online extension or complement to Arts One
that enables anyone to join this voyage of discovery and critical analysis.
“Looking for Whitman: The Poetry of Place in the Life and Work of Walt Whitman,” helps students and faculty members from four educational institutions trace the lingering imprints of Whitman’s footsteps in the local soil.”
Student as Producer is a development of the University of Lincoln’s policy of research-informed teaching to research-engaged teaching.
Research-engaged teaching involves more research and research-like activities at the core of the undergraduate curriculum.
In this way students become part of the academic project of the University and collaborators with academics in the production of knowledge and meaning.
Service learning: a method of teaching that combines classroom instruction with meaningful community service.
This form of learning emphasizes critical thinking and personal reflection while encouraging a heightened sense of community, civic engagement, and personal responsibility.
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