Towards Openness: How Can We Be Open and Safe in Online Learning?

‘Towards Openness - how can we be safe in online learning?’ is designed as a collaborative session where you are invited to consider the opportunities and risks of open online teaching and learning based on thoughts and provocations that revolve around openness, ownership, digital identity, privacy and security.

Conversations will take place in the room and on Twitter. We will together facilitate and curate these, with the aim of collecting critical evidence-driven conversations that deal with topics and issues around openness, the goal being to bring forward substantial evidence to provide policy-makers and changers of differing levels to support openness and ownership and to provide the resources needed to enable rich, safe and ethical learning for 21st century learners.

Following pre-recorded provocations by Maha Bali, Robin DeRosa, Kate Green and Nishant Shah around questions of accessibility, ownership, openness and learning you will be given space for discourse and conversations based on presented input and materials, but also around issues that you feel are relevant to the theme of ownership and safety in online learning.

Multimodal ‘campfire’ materials will ignite group conversations. Your task will be to design an intervention that will help broker a conversation around your theme or issue of choice. This conversation can be educator-to-educator, educator-to-student educator-to-policymakers or student-to-policy-maker and interventions can be phantastical prototypes (rapid feminist prototyping), an agenda or manifesto, (digital) artefacts, a cartoon, a social media campaign or any format and type of media you prefer.

Directly after the session a Virtually Connecting hallway conversation will provide a space for reflection on the session, present its conversations to outsiders and bring in additional perspectives on the discussed issues and topics. Make sure to check out the website of the facilitator of this session for additional details: christianfriedrich.org/oeb16

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