Hashtag Seminars

So we’ve been building a new digital humanities tool “Huma Bird Project” and we used it to analyse the #digped hybrid pedagogy chat on twitter

It shows some interesting possibilities for analysis

  1. Do people naturally get locked in to conversations (perhaps @ mentions favour # tweets)?
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The Cuckoo always wins

So we have our xMOOC / cMOOC – tomato / tomato split forming. A schism over beard lengths and the best hat to please god will soon no doubt ensue. Sadly, and it is always sadly these days we can possible consider another way of distinguishing between the two groups.…

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Green, Gold, White

So in the great dictionary battle over what open means, many see MOOCs as being disruptive innovation or some such not only to lecture theatre bricks and mortar but then also to OERs and the general concept of openness. Openess measured as some fraction of ajar and not instead as in permissive or flexible.…

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Journalist Dragon Noise

So the MOOC Bubble has gone POP! and now everything is breathing a big sigh of relief because the status quo has won and we can all smile happy thoughts and life goes on and all of the sooth sayers and witchfinder generals can laugh at their silly hats and masks.…

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What does Open mean?

As part of our OpenJoyce.com  presentation at OER13 we did a survey on what people considered “open to mean”. You can see all of the responses on the spreadsheet.

Some of the shorter responses

Visible and public.
The ability to use and share the work freely and without constraint provided you credit the author/source
It’s a buzz word to associate education with equal opportunity.

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Introducing UKNIP

It is with great pleasure I can proudly announce I am the press officer for UKNIP (The Universities Knowledge Independence Party).

UKNIP believes that commercial interference in the running of Universities, the prime example of which are the foreign MOOCs coming to the UK and undermining our access policies.…

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Sew your wild oats

Aren’t silos evil. Just evil. That whole corn storing thing they do is just so unjust. Personally I advocate storing all corn in my cheeks like an agrarian hamster combine harvester.

Now I don’t need to worry what happens to the silo, and as I long as I don’t cough I’ll be fine…..…

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The Open Bubble

I’ve struggled to find anyone willing to pin down openness. Recently there was a delightful schism where the ambiguous and the literal went in opposite directions. As I said then, there is no great rallying cry for ambiguity. People of the world unite,  you have nothing to lose but your dictionaries.…

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Commit Committing

Open Source, the great commons of our time. Vast swathes of code liberate from Duke Microsoft and Emperor Oracle. Finally we can walk over the grass and feel it between our toes and…. erm….…

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