Towards Openness – Safety in Open Online Learning? [1469] Members : #OER17

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Thu, Apr 6 2017, 1:45pm – 2:45pm

Authors: Christian Friedrich, Kate Green, and Markus Deimann

Room: Seminar 2

Theme: Inst/Org Politics

Type: Workshop

Description

Visit the OER17 Safety in Open Learning mini site for additional information about this workshop

‘Towards Openness – safety in open online learning?’ is designed as a collaborative workshop. We will invite conference delegates to consider safety and security in open online learning based on inputs and provocations that revolve around openness, philosophy, privacy, security and ownership.

Conversations and activities during the workshop will be facilitated within the framework ‘Towards Openness’. The idea of Towards Openness entails the curation of research and practices, the facilitation of conversations around themes of openness and connected learning as well as the amplification of learnings for their use in teaching. In this sense, Towards Openness serves as a framework for facilitation of ongoing conversations around questions on open teaching and learning. Conversations during the workshop will take place on Twitter as well as on the conference site and both workshop hosts and participants will facilitate them. The goal of this segment of the workshop is to collect critical evidence-driven conversations that deal with topics and issues around openness. It is meant to critically reflect influences of open teaching, safety and security and to provide policy-influencers of differing levels with observations and evidence in order to support openness and ownership in online learning.

After short introductions, bringing in diverse perspectives on openness and ownership, provocations around questions at the intersections of openness, philosophy, security, technology, education and learning will be presented onsite and with prepared video statements to better enable intercultural dialogue (Bali, 2013). Participants will then be given space for discourse and conversations based on provided materials, but also around issues that they feel are relevant to the theme of politics and safety in online learning. Such materials will present education in wider (and intercultural) societal contexts, demanding participants to think critically. Small groups of participants will distill these conversations by designing and conceptualizing interventions that are directed at a certain group of stakeholders. By integrating perspectives of various stakeholders in online learning, participants are challenged to argue for openness as an “instrument to achieve larger principles and ideals” (Shah, 2016) such as ownership, privacy and safety.

Proposed Workshop Agenda

Introduction and First Input (5-10 minutes)
1. Privacy, Security, Open Learning
2. What is Towards Openness?
Provocations (each about 3-5 minutes, 10-15 minutes)
Breakout (50 minutes)
1. Task: design an intervention that will help broker a conversation around your theme or issue of choice.
  1. The conversation can be educator-to-educator, educator-to-student educator-to-policymakers, student-to-policy-maker
  2. Interventions can be: prototypes; agendas or constituting documents like a manifesto ; [digital] artefacts; a cartoon; a social media campaign; any format and type of media you prefer
Presentation (20 minutes)
1. To include a wider audience, delegates’ presentations will be recorded by the workshop facilitators. Modes of citation and of privacy will be agreed upon at the workshop.