excellence & the wild rumpus: what networks mean for higher ed
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EXCELLENCE & THE WILD RUMPUS: What Networks Mean for Higher Ed "
Bonnie Stewart"University of Prince Edward Island"
Ohio Innovate 2016"@bonstewart #InnovateOSU"
https://www.flickr.com/photos/geraldbrazell/6389453857"
INSTITUTIONS"
• Product-focused"• Mastery"• Time/space-bound"• Hierarchical ties"• Authorship/ plagiarism"• Audience = teacher"
& NETWORKS: "
• Process-focused"• Participation"
• Always accessible"• Peer-to-peer ties"
• Crowdsourcing"• Audience = world"
"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment#/media/File:UnemployedMarch.jpg"
Casualization. Contingency.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Parkplatzzufahrthinweisschild_MLP_AG_Corporate_University.JPG"
New management & governance
visions/divisions."
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/94223817176624744/?from_navigate=true"
Not all suits (or roles) fit forever."
We will NOT be sailing home to
someone who loves us best
of all""
In fact, many of us will
never achieve non-contingent status in the
academy"
UNPACKING THE RUMPUS:"
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nycgal/92762924"
• Abundance"• Networked practice"• Excellence & change"
"For the first time in human history, two related propositions are true. One, it no
longer is possible to store within the human brain all of the information that a human
needs. "
Second, it no longer is necessary to store within the human brain all of the information
that humans need. "
Education needs to be geared toward the handling of data rather than the
accumulation of data.”""
- Context for Communication, Berlo, 1975"
Structure of Abundance = NETWORKS"
https://plus.google.com/+DaveGray/posts/CQRVeKEsUvF?pid=5751686447270321954&oid=117373186752666867801"
NETWORKING: many-to-many communications"
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h#ps://www.flickr.com/photos/ooohoooh/1350774613/
Networks are not just for consuming, but connecting"
Many-to-many communications allow us to create ourselves
as network nodes, forming webs of visible (& invisible)
connections"
In institutional structures, an
individual has a role."
"In a networked
culture, an individual"
has an identity, which it is
his/her job to differentiate."
https://www.flickr.com/photos/piper/19904408/"
"Abundance:"You can’t avoid
getting wet."You never get
ALL the water. "
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8113246@N02/7932198032
Academia & social media: both reputational economies"
Those within the academy become very skilled at judging the stuff of reputations. Where has the person’s work been published, what claims of
priority in discovery have they established, how often have
they been cited, how and where reviewed, what prizes won, what institutional ties earned, what
organizations led?
Willinsky, 2010"
Networked practices = scholarship"
• Scholarship of discovery"• Scholarship of integration"• Scholarship of application"
• Scholarship of teaching"
!
(Boyer, 1990)"
AND THE PAPERS WANT TO KNOW WHOSE SHIRT YOU WEAR
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Euskal_Museoa_branding_irons.jpg"
NAVIGATING COMPLEX SIGNALS:"
https://www.flickr.com/photos/samkim/78838970"https://www.flickr.com/photos/denseatoms/2982105947"
• What kinds of professional conversations do you want access
to? With whom? From where?"
• What audiences do you want for your students?"
• What do you – and your students – have to offer that isn’t being
seen right now?"
Tell me how your story goes from here."
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jondoe_264/8127841237"
@bonstewart"[email protected]"