[Open-education] Open education events. Was re: Open Education: Condition Critical

Wed Nov 12 20:22:17 UTC 2014

Thanks Daniel,

This looks like a really interesting event!

Someone also flagged OpenCon 2014 , at Imperial College, London - it's 
the free UK version of OpenCon <http://www.opencon2014.org/> - the 
student and early career researcher conference on Open Access, Open 
Education, and Open Data being held on November 15-17, 2014 in 
Washington, DC.
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/opencon-2014-london-tickets-13952172323

Any more events people would like to mention? Maybe some non-UK or 
non-US ones ;-)

Marieke

On 12/11/2014 19:40, Daniel Villar-Onrubia wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I hope this event is of interest to many of you.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Dr Daniel Villar-Onrubia
> Online International Learning Programme Manager
> Coventry University - Centre for Global Engagement
> daniel.villaronrubia at coventry.ac.uk 
> <mailto:daniel.villaronrubia at coventry.ac.uk>
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielvillaronrubia
>
>
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> *The Centre for Disruptive Media presents:*
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> **
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> */Open Education: Condition Critical/*
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> *//*
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> /A panel exploring opportunities to critically and creatively experiment/
>
> / with different ideas of what the university and education can be/
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> //
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> *http://disruptivemedia.org.uk/*
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> **
>
> Thursday November 20^th  4:30-6:30pm
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> Coventry University
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> Disruptive Media Learning Lab
>
> 3^rd  floor Frederick Lanchester Library
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> **
>
> *Panellists:*
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> **
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> *Sean Dockray (The Public School)*
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> *Richard Hall (De Montfort University Leicester)*
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> *Shaun Hides (Coventry University)*
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> *Sharon Irish (University of Illinois/FemTechNet)*
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> *Pauline van Mourik Broekman (Mute)*
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> **
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> *Free entrance*
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> **
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> *Please register at: **http://criticalopeneducation.eventbrite.co.uk* 
> <http://criticalopeneducation.eventbrite.co.uk/>
>
>
> What for decades could only be dreamt of is now almost within reach: 
> the widespread provision of free online education, regardless of a 
> student's geographic location, financial status or ability to access 
> conventional institutions of learning. Yet for all the hype-cycle that 
> has been entered into over MOOCs, many experiments with Open Education 
> (OE) do not appear to be designed to challenge the /becoming 
> business/ of the university or alter Higher Education in any really 
> fundamental way. If anything, they seem more likely to lead to a 
> two-tier system, in which those who can't afford to pay (so much) to 
> attend a traditional university, or belong to those groups who prefer 
> not to move away from home (e.g. lower-income families), have to make 
> do with a poor, online, second-rate alternative education produced by 
> a global corporation.
>
> Open Education: Condition Critical will thus examine some of the 
> opportunities that exist for experimenting, critically and creatively, 
> with very different ideas of what the university and education can be 
> in the 21st century. In doing so, rather than focusing on the 2012 
> batch of extremely publicity-savvy xMOOCs (Edx, Udacity, FutureLearn 
> etc.), it will draw attention to a range of more radical developments 
> in the Open Education arena. They include The Public School, 
> FemTechNet's DOCCs (Distributed Open Collaborative Courses), the 
> self-organised 'free universities' associated with the Occupy, 
> anti-austerity and student protests, and even so-called 'pirate' 
> libraries such as libgen.org <http://libgen.org/> and aaaaarg.org 
> <http://aaaaarg.org/>.
>
> Open Education: Condition Critical has been organised to mark the 
> publication of /Open Education: A Study in Disruption/ (London: Rowman 
> and Littlefield International, 2014), co-authored by Coventry 
> University's Open Media Group and Mute Publishing as a critical 
> experiment with both collaborative, processual writing and concise, 
> medium-length forms of shared attention.
>
>
>
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