2011 Year of Edupunk « Colin Maxwell's Blog
As education budget cuts bite hard and resources become ever scarcer, educators will increasingly adopt a DIY approach to ensure that quality learning continues. Educators that don’t embrace the change will see their courses ever harder to deliver, leading to decay and eventual cutbacks. Courtesy of bionic teaching, Creative Commons License Edupunks have been making, sharing and collaborating already, and their practices will have to become mainstream for quality further & higher education to continue as before. Cuts will lead to less investment in ICT, staff and support, and educators will embrace the cloud, moving their course content into the open network and enabling greater sharing between institutions and across boundaries that were previously seen as no-go areas. Like this: Like Loading...
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About Anya Kamenetz, author of 'The Edupunks' Guide to a DIY Credential'
Biography Anya Kamenetz is a senior writer at Fast Company Magazine, where she writes the column Life in Beta, and the author of two books, Generation Debt (Riverhead, 2006), which dealt with generational economics and politics including student loan policy, and DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education, (Chelsea Green, 2010) which investigated the roots of the cost, access, and quality crises in higher education as well as innovations in technology and social media to address these crises. She was named a 2010 Game Changer in Education by the Huffington Post, received 2009 and 2010 National Awards for Education Reporting from the Education Writers Association, and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing by the Village Voice in 2005. She travels and speaks at campuses across the country, and often gives comments on NPR, CNN and other news networks. Where to find Anya Kamenetz online Books The Edupunks' Guide to a DIY Credential
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Jim’s been talking about edupunk a fair bit lately (starting with the killer post The Glass Bees, then Permapunk and finally tying in the awesome Murder, Madness, Mayhem wikipedia project), and Jen wrote up a piece that dovetails nicely into the concept. There’s something about the edupunk concept that is resonating deeply in me. It’s a movement away from what has become of the mainstream edtech community – a collection of commercial products produced by large companies. Edupunk is the opposite of that. It’s DIY. It’s about individuals being able to craft their own tools, to plan their own agendas, and to determine their own destinies. And it’s not new. But, the key to edupunk is that it is not about technology. It’s about a culture, a way of thinking, a philosophy. I’m not about to suggest that technology isn’t important or relevant to edupunk – of course it is. One of the coolest classrooms I’ve ever been in is the Engineering Design Lab at the University of Calgary.
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