Center4Edupunx. Building the E-University: Transforming Athabasca University. At Athabasca University Dietmar Kennepohl is Associate Vice President Academic and Professor of Chemistry, Cindy Ives is Director of the Centre for Learning Design and Development, Brian Stewart is Vice President Information Technology and CIO, and Rory McGreal is Professor, Centre for Distance Education and UNESCO/COL Chair in Open Educational Resources. Key Takeaways Reinventing itself as an online university required that Athabasca University go beyond technological integration to make sweeping changes to its culture, skill sets, and processes.
Aided by two externally funded programs, the university launched complex, large-scale initiatives on a tight two-year time frame that demanded effective leadership and project management skills and led to key lessons learned. Initial project results indicate not only that real change is occurring at AU, but also that faculty and administrators are increasingly willing to examine and change their traditional practices. AU Special Projects Endnotes. Review Online. .edu Home Page. EDUCAUSE Homepage | EDUCAUSE.edu. The Edupunks' Guide To a DIY Credential. DIY U. DIY, says 'edupunk' star. Distortion and sell-out, say critics. Few scholarly cheers for author's 'branded' vision of accessible higher education. Sarah Cunnane writes In 2008, a diverse group of people working in and around higher education decided they were - in the words of the film Network - "mad as hell, and not going to take it any more".
The cause: the omnipresence of "cookie-cutter" content management systems for teaching such as Blackboard and the focus on new technology as a force for change, rather than on the potential of the community around that technology. The result: edupunk. The term was coined by Jim Groom, instructional technology specialist in the arts and humanities at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia, and it was quickly adopted by a group of academics, mainly in the US and Canada, who wanted students to create their education rather than merely consume it. The definition of edupunk is somewhat loose, as preferred by its creator and early adopters. That's not punk, that's ridiculous What about the revolution? BlogHer. How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education. Reinventing School - A Design Thinking Challenge by Your Learning Partner - Brendan.
Reinventing School. You co-design it, We make it possible - Re-imagine, Reinvent, Rethink, Empathy, Education 3.0, Transform, Revolution, Collaboration, Design Thinking Challenge, 21st Century Skills, Project. Introducing Edupunk. Edupunk. Edupunk is a do it yourself (DIY) attitude to teaching and learning practices.[1][2] Tom Kuntz described edupunk as "an approach to teaching that avoids mainstream tools like PowerPoint and Blackboard, and instead aims to bring the rebellious attitude and D.I.Y. ethos of ’70s bands like The Clash to the classroom. "[3] Many instructional applications can be described as DIY education or Edupunk. Jim Groom as "poster boy" for edupunk The term was first used on May 25, 2008 by Jim Groom in his blog,[4] and covered less than a week later in the Chronicle of Higher Education.[1] Stephen Downes, an online education theorist and an editor for the International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning, noted that "the concept of Edupunk has totally caught wind, spreading through the blogosphere like wildfire".[5] Aspects of edupunk[edit] The reaction to corporate influence on education is only one part of edupunk, though.
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