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“Producing Students as Edupunks” Phil Johnson, Criminal Justice Lecturer, UCBC

• Higher grades and greater confidence.

• Enhanced identification with the role of a BSO.

http://www.contactnorth.ca/pockets-innovation/border-simulation (Loyalist College, Ontario, 2013)

• Lateral thinking and reacting to situations.

• Self and peer assessment.

• More complex than previous teaching via passive observations.

‘Nevermind the pedagogues here’s Edupunk’ (Cohen, 2008)

“[Blackboard’s claims] are not done by technology, but rather people thinking and working together. Our technology … doesn’t enhance critical thinking or improve classroom performance, we do that, together… Corporations are selling us back our ideas, innovations, and visions for an exorbitant price.” (Groom, 2008)

2009 ‘A word of the year’ (New York Times)

“an autodidactic approach that spurns commercialism, mass-market approaches and top-down goal setting.”

Introduced at the University Centre Blackburn College in September 2011.

Introduced at the University of Southern California in March 2012.

Tutorial: Using a search engineLearning Outcome: A clear understanding of the

role of the critical factors in the systemSummary: through preparing their own account

of using a search engine, to demonstrate the role of the critical factors, using the Library guidelines; presenting it to their group; defending it against questions and comments; and revising their account in the light of the tutor’s summary of the discussion

Tutorial: On a system or processLearning Outcome: A clear understanding of the

role of the critical factors in the systemSummary: through preparing their own account

of the system/process, to demonstrate the role of the critical factors, using the resources provided; presenting it to their group; defending it against questions and comments; and revising their animation in the light of the tutor’s summary of the discussion

Tutorial: The water cycleLearning Outcome: A clear understanding of the

role of the critical factors in the systemSummary: through preparing their own

animation of the water cycle, to demonstrate the role of the critical factors, using the OER cycle; presenting it to their group; defending it against questions and comments; and revising their animation in the light of the tutor’s summary of the discussion

Tutorial: The water cycleLearning Outcome: A clear understanding of the

role of the critical factors in the systemSummary: through preparing their own

animation of the water cycle, to demonstrate the role of the critical factors, using the OER cycle; presenting it to their group; defending it against questions and comments; and revising their animation in the light of the tutor’s summary of the discussion

Benefits from OEP (open educational practices)

OER repository

Laurillard, D. (2008) ‘The teacher as action researcher: Using technology to capture pedagogic form’, Studies in Higher Education, 33(2), 139-154

The high standards of 21st

century employability• WMR?

• Current casualties?

• A degree of edupunk?

OER REPOSITORIES

Creative Commons Licences?

…Books, Images, Music…

This image by stockarch / stockarch.com

Digital branding?

(edupunk?)

Students as producers of the social world they live in?

“The university is a social project”(Professor Mike Neary)

After using a statistical test for differences it was found that visitors’ attitudes towards ‘harm’, ‘intent’ and ‘real’ crimes had changed significantly.

Public Criminology?

Visual Criminology?

Possibilities from The hegemony of the written word in East Lancashire’s edufactories? Course Number of

assignments

Assessment obligation

per module

Total

FdA Criminology (per year) 8 2,500

20,000

BA Criminology (per year) 5 4,000 (inc.exams) and

10,000 for the dissertation 26,000 The 1:10 ‘Campaign’?

Community-based learning and “High-Impact Educational Practices” (Kuh, 2008)