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to meeting scholars and researchers in the areas of digital and networked learning and open education to learn from one another discuss the merits of different research lenses and methodologies consider the collective challenges we face and identify possibilities for future research and collaboration it will be a privilege and pleasure also to hear keynotes by sian bayne grainne conole and paul conway i ll present a brief update on my phd research study openness and praxis exploring open educational practices oep in higher education this initial phase of my research has focused on how university educators make sense of and make use of open educational practices for teaching the next phase of the study will explore how both staff and students enact and negotiate their digital identities in the open networked spaces where they interact with one another i ll write a longer post on my preliminary research findings before presenting at the upcoming srhe event on november 18th critical perspectives on openness in higher education i m shouting out also to the opened16 conference this week wishing i could be in two places at once i ll be tuning into the opened16 hashtag and plan to participate in at least one vconnecting session may the connections and conversations commence p s my track record of including at least one image in each of my presentations from the wonderful alan levine continues thanks cogdog for that amazing sunflower shared via cc0 on flickr a gorgeous image to use to talk openness learning connection and vulnerability leave a comment may 23 2016 oer16 a critical turn cc by nd bryan mathers http bryanmmathers com participatory culture i ve been thinking about oer16 open culture since the conference ended just over four weeks ago i m reflecting now not just through the lens of those few weeks but also the other conferences and workshops which i attended immediately afterward namely the c delta project in cape town and the networked learning nlc2016 doctoral consortium and conference in lancaster it has felt like a few months worth of sharing and discussing research and engaging in wonderful conversations condensed into a few short weeks a great privilege so late as this may be i want to share a few notes and impressions from these events beginning with oer16 as several others have already written and beautifully collection of blog posts below oer16 was both enjoyable and thought provoking i ve long considered myself an open educator and i m currently doing research in the area of open educational practices so this is a community in which i feel at home my main takeaway from the conference was that oer16 and the open education community more generally is growing changing and evolving there was a strong strand of critical research shared and enthusiastically discussed during and after the conference my keynote if open is the answer what is the question i was honoured to be asked to give one of the conference keynotes by the co chairs lorna campbell and melissa highton i sometimes struggle with the idea of conference keynotes i know that plenary speakers can be a powerful and sometimes provocative way of exploring conference themes yet i find myself wrestling with ways of providing that focus while also including other voices and perspectives and including space for conversation and discussion my approach for oer16 was to share my thoughts and questions in a blog post well before the event inviting ideas feedback and discussion that post if open is the answer what is the question led to several weeks of discussion before the conference i shared this in the keynote during the keynote i focused on 4 key ideas noting the vital connection between networked participatory culture and openness using as an example ireland s 2015 marriage equality referendum exploring definitions interpretations and levels of openness in education highlighting openness as a complex phenomenon technical social cultural and economic arguing for the importance of a critical and reflexive approach to openness openness can help to address issues of access and inequality but it can also bias those already privileged i highlighted work by richard edwards 2015 sava singh 2015 laura czerniewicz 2014 cheryl hodgkinson williams 2014 and others who are doing critical research including several people who also presented their work at oer16 full keynote bibliography included at end of post sharing work from my own phd research in my study of open educational practices in higher education openness is characterised as individual complex and contextual for academic staff in my study openness is i closely linked with identity ii negotiated continually and at multiple levels and iii both a personal and collective decision here is a storify of tweets from the keynote a video recording and my presentation slides thanks to beck pitt for her amazing visual notes cc by beck pitt flickr and thanks to stuart allan for his concise summary of the issues and challenges we face having a clear value driven vision for openness based on ideas of sustainability civic responsibility and social justice as advocated by catherine cronin and others represents the very best of what higher education can be or should be but when it comes to implementing this vision in a specific context there are tensions at work between political values educational aims and pragmatic concerns these will have to be negotiated with courage and no little skill presentations workshops keynotes there were many many dilemmas in choosing sessions to attend at oer16 the programme was rich and varied a few highlights for me were sava singh discussed her phd research in a session entitled open wounds the myth of open as a panacea this work also is explored in some depth in sava s recent blog post the fallacy of open sava reminded us of some blunt truths about our own privilege as social media users e g being an early adopter is a privilege being able to complain about how twitter used to be is a privilege she highlighted the tension between the discourse of open access and reputational politics in academia there is a growing be open diktat in academia e g for many phd students yet for individuals who are marginalised within higher education in various ways e g by race gender precarious or otherwise low employment status etc sharing work and being open can be risky sava reminded us to ask ourselves important questions about risk power inequality and surveillance when advocating openness viv rolfe and dave kernohan presented open education runnin with the devil their presentation begins at 41 minutes asking whether the open education community is being critical enough in its evaluation of its progress viv discussed her systematic review of studies describing the impact of open education on learning and teaching then dave turned the focus to blogs i ve heard it said that all the good stuff is published in blogs talking us through his process of generating semantic blog citation metrics this is fascinating work which i hope viv and dave will continue to develop sheila macneill and keith smyth shared the results of their ongoing collaboration in two detailed blog posts before the conference reframing open in the context of the digital university part 1 and part 2 in their work sheila and keith use the concept of third space neutral collective inclusive spaces to theorise the digital university i m particularly intrigued by the concept of digitally distributed curriculum which they are exploring in their work and i look forward to watching this work as it develops i participated in a lively workshop facilitated by christian friedrich and shaun hides entitled are we openness ready towards an open learning scale the workshop built on work by femtechnet and liz losh which used rapid feminist prototyping to identify drivers of openness christian and shaun began by sharing the thinking behind the six drivers of openness then we identified three to develop further in a maker style workshop fun and thought provoking i felt honoured to attend the session in which margaret korosec described the amazing stolen lives project stolen lives is a collaborative open educational project with the aim of increasing awareness of modern day slavery as margaret described using oer to combat modern slavery facts 35 million people are enslaved worldwide and there are 13 000 people in forced labour in the uk today during two days in which inequality and social justice were invoked by many this work is a touchstone for what is possible this project deserves to be shared widely finally if you are at all interested in openness oer and or oep please do check out the blog summaries written by many listed below and videos of the excellent keynotes by emma smith john scally jim groom and melissa highton emma smith a shakespearean scholar spoke honestly and humbly about her open journey beginning with the decision to record audio podcasts of her lectures for the sake of students who might miss a lecture she moved on to the realisation that releasing her lectures openly had completely transformed my teaching emma s cc licensed podcasts approaching shakespeare are available on itunes and on the university of oxford website john scally national librarian at the national library of scotland nls spoke about the digital strategy of the library and the challenge of balancing tensions between preservation and access john believes that the library needs to go further than widening access however it needs to promote equity after years of quoting jim groom in my own presentations i finally got to hear him in person and meet his lovely family who had travelled to scotland with him as jim describes in his own blog he brought us on the magical mystery tour that is ds106 and reclaim hosting he lifted the focus from oer and even oep open pedagogy to open technical infrastructure the keynote was an awesome summary of work done by jim and a great many people whom he mentioned throughout including ds106 students and participants as jim reminded us most of the work that students have done in ds106 is still there finally conference co chair melissa highton concluded the conference on a high note speaking in her capacity as director of learning teaching and web services at the university of edinburgh in her thoughtful and inspiring keynote melissa reminded us what it means to be open in an institutional context highlighting the university s oer policy http open ed ac uk she used the concept of copyright debt analogous to technical debt to make a strong case for open melissa s take home message not being open is a risk and not being open costs us money oer16 blog posts oer16 empowered openness by maren deepwell oer16 open culture conference overview by lorna campbell oer16 the friendly conference by frances bell open culture open questions by stuart allan radio edutalk at oer16 by john johnson several posts on oer16 conference blog exploring openness at oer16 by nicole ingerson open is messy that s ok by simon thomson behind the scenes at oer16 open culture by susan grieg literally ear buddies virtually connecting at oer16 by alan levine virtually connecting thanks to alan levine and many more challenging openness innovation takeaways from oer16 olcinnovate by maha bali reflections on virtually connecting oer16 by laura gibbs reflections on catherine cronin s keynote at oer16 many thanks caroline kuhn and last but not least radio edutalk a wonderful series of radio interviews produced by john johnson apologies to anyone whose posts i may have missed and finally many thanks to lorna campbell and melissa highton wonderful co chairs of the conference and inspiring women in tech thanks also to the talented alt team who supported us before during and after the event special thanks to martin hawksey and john johnson an incredible team through their efforts the conference was made open via live audio and video streams video recordings and audio interviews and thanks to all who shared their work and participated in the conference you made the two days very special cc by sa catherinecronin flickr bibliography from my keynote beetham helen 2015 revisiting digital capability for 2015 jisc beetham helen i falconer l mcgill a littlejohn 2012 open practices briefing paper jisc cottom tressie mcmillan 2015 open and accessible to w hat and for whom blog czerniewicz l 2015 confronting inequitable power dynamics of global knowledge production and exchange water wheel 14 5 pp 26 28 edwards richard 2015 knowledge infrastructures and the inscrutability of openness in education learning media and technology 40 3 pp 251 264 ehlers u d 2011 extending the territory from open educational resources to open educational practices journal of open flexible and distance learning 15 2 pp 1 10 hodgkinson williams c 2014 degrees of ease adoption of oer open textbooks and moocs in the global south oer asia symposium jenkins henry et al 2007 confronting the challenges of participatory culture media education for the 21st century chicago macarthur foundation jenkins henry mizuko ito danah boyd 2016 participatory culture in a networked era cambridge polity press national forum for teaching learning in higher education 2015 developing a roadmap for building digital capacity national forum report sing sava saheli 2015 the fallacy of open savasavasava blog stewart bonnie 2015 open to influence what counts as academic influence in scholarly networked twitter participation learning media and technology 40 3 pp 1 23 veletsianos george kimmons royce 2012 networked participatory scholarship emergent techno cultural pressures toward open and digital scholarship in online networks computers education 58 2 pp 766 774 4 comments april 7 2016 initial thoughts exploring oep in higher education cc by 2 0 woodlewonderworks flickr the working title of my phd research study is exploring open educational practices in higher education i m currently at a pausing point between phases so i plan to write a few blog posts to capture my findings and thinking so far and where i m heading next this is the first of those posts the starting point i began the phd journey wanting to find out more about what happens when students and educators meet interact and learn together in open online spaces beyond the confines of the classroom and the vle as defined by danah boyd networked publics are simultaneously spaces and the imagined collectives that emerge as a result of the intersection of people technology and practice so what happens when those collectives are comprised of educators students and others blogging and using social media tools e g twitter hypothesis etc adapting creating and sharing oer learning together and sharing their learning as an open educator for some time i had joined my students in such activities and could easily describe my own motives and experiences and share student work and reflections but i wanted t...