Welcome to Creativity for Edupunks

Course Syllabus

Instructors: Dr. Phil Johnson and Craig hammond

Office: (Phil: UC-301) (Craig: UC-401)

Office Hours: (Craig - Monday's 2.00-5.00), (Phil - Tuesday's 2.00-5.00)

Edupunk and Anarchogogy

Read this link for a useful overview (with additional lnks to) the notion edupunk and the notion of 'anarchogogy' Proposal for Anarchogogy   

Your mode of study

You are allocated 3 hours per week to study the different weekly topic areas (see week-by-week breakdown below). See the following link for a more detailed breakdown of how you will be expected to study (and be guided/supported througout) these materials:  

End of Module Assessment

The aim of this staff development course is to equip you with the ethos, understanding, and skills to ultimately produce your own Open Educational Resource (OER). Therefore, weeks 9, 10 & 11 are dedicated to you producing your own OER learning artefact (specific to your own area of study)

Week-by-week break-down of topics (content and tasks) 

Week 1: What is the (new) University?

What is the New University

Week 2: Creative Commons Licences (CCL's) and other terminology

CCL and Terminology

Week 3: De-Schooling 'the University'

Deschooling The University

Week 4: Innovative Assessment Strategies

Innovative Assessment Strategies

Week 5: Digital 'Natives'

Digital Natives

Week 6: Voicethread and Prezzie

Prezi, Voicethread & Jing

Week 7: 'Bye bye Badman: The Reedmption of Hope through Popular Culture'

'Bye bye Badman: The Reedmption of Hope through Popular Culture'

Week 8: 'The Power of the Image ...'

'The Power of the Image'

Week 9, 10 & 11: Lecturer as Innovative OER Producer: Producing your own OER

Lecturer as Innovative OER Producer: Producing your own OER

"Knowledge" and 'Your' Learning Process 

The majority of your study time will be spent working through the documentation (and study materials provided) individually. However, it is essential that you/we utilise the interactive nature of this Wiki site. We (Phil and Craig) will be accessing the Wiki regularly, to consider and respond to the thoughts, examples, suggestions and questions that you pose (at the bottom of each session/page is a discussion panel). The idea is for all learners/participants to contribute to this important and collaborate process. As you will hopefully establish from Session 1's activities - 'we' are not here to "teach" you established knowledge, but to negotiate and 'create' new directions for our networked-knowledges and emerging practices.   

Collaborative Learning Process 

Throughout the module, Phil and I will increasingly introduce you to new vocabularies (emerging technical terminology and theoretical ideas), in order to enhance your understanding of (student-centred) DIY-Education; Anarchogogy; Edupunk; Innovative Assessment etc.  The first 8-weeks of work will therefore introduce and induct you in the this emerging world; weeks 9, 10, & 11 will culminate in you producing (and distributing to colleagues) your own OER. Part of this end-of-module assessment will consist of online discussions/collaborations with either Phil or myself - so as to establish how (your utilisation of) the ideas, and, (your) practical strategy in creating an OER might best be formulated.    

Course Grade

Grading is on a "pass" or "fail" basis. This outcome of this will be determined the production of (and peer-review process feedback/critique) your own innovative OER. It is expected that you will utilise this learning/engagement 'artefact' as part of your own teaching/engagement practice, and, also upload it as a 'free OER' on the learning repository Jorum (www.jorum.ac.uk).