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

Thu Nov 13 09:10:18 UTC 2014

Thank Marieke. People might be also interested in the Open Education Global
Conference: http://conference.oeconsortium.org/2015/

Best wishes,

Daniel

On 12 November 2014 20:22, Marieke Guy <marieke.guy at okfn.org> wrote:

>  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
> 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*
>
>
>
> *http://disruptivemedia.org.uk/* <http://disruptivemedia.org.uk/>
>
>
>
> Thursday November 20th 4:30-6:30pm
>
> Coventry University
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> Disruptive Media Learning Lab
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> 3rd floor Frederick Lanchester Library
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>
>
> *Panellists:*
>
>
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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/>
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>
>
>  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 and
> 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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