Affordances+of+the+Open+Web

//Presented at the Auckland University of Technology • October 7, 2014//

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Affordances, in design language, are way objects in the world are able to communicate about their function. How does the web itself, in the way it is built, provide these same cues and direction for open education? Learn about the architecture of course like DS106, Phonar, and many more open, connected courses.

URLs Mentioned
> > Navigating the Marvellous: Openness in Education #altc keynote by Catherine Cronin http://catherinecronin.wordpress.com/2014/09/09/navigating-marvellous/ > >
 * //The Design of Everyday Things// by Donald Norman http://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Donald-Norman/dp/0465067107
 * Flickr photos tagged //showerinstructions// https://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/showerinstructions
 * How I feel about arguments over definitions of “open” http://giphy.com/gifs/M0F8XL7edqDkc
 * It's about open attitudes (Nancy White) http://bit.ly/1s57m4y
 * "Openness facilitates the unexpected" David Wiley http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/2723
 * "...Although we can connect and interact within both physical spaces and bounded online spaces, we cannot easily share what we are doing with a wider audience, nor can we invite our networks into our learning community. The message remains: what we do here is separate from all else we do. Formal learning is divorced from rather than integrated with informal learning practices and networks."
 * Where Google sanctions YouTube remix w/o attribution http://cogdogblog.com/28988
 * The MOOC Cow Creative Commons image by Gordon Lockhart http://gbl55.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/cck11-man-this-mooc-is-something-else/
 * MOOC Every Letter is Negotiable creative commons licensed (BY) flickr photo by mathplourde: http://flickr.com/photos/mathplourde/8448541815
 * Jon Udell on Narrating Our Work http://blog.jonudell.net/?s=narrating
 * eduction changing creative: commons licensed (BY-ND) flickr photo by bryanmmathers (wapisasa): http://flickr.com/photos/122135325@N06/15117809516
 * ds106 http://ds106.us/
 * #ds106 is made of the stuff the web is made of http://wcetblog.wordpress.com/2013/02/13/ds106/
 * MOOC Ramming Speed http://cogdogblog.com/2012/08/15/mooc-ramming-speed/
 * Examples of Open Connected Courses (more at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t7MIOOUl87Ib1JD0s4aXGUkMBQlJGMxm6oZDrE00DgM/edit#)
 * rmooc (2013-2014 Thomson Rivers University) http://rmooc.ca
 * ETMOOC (2012) http://etmooc.org/hub
 * Project Community (2012- Hague University of Applied Sciences) http://projectcommunity.info/
 * Future of Learning institute (2013- Harvard Graduate School of Education) http://futureoflearningpz.org/
 * Thought Vectors in Concept Space (Summer 2014, VCU) http://thoughtvectors.net/
 * t509 Massive: The Future of Learning at Scale (2014, Harvard) http://t509massive.org/
 * English 692: Special Topics–Digital Culture(s) (Fall 2014, Chico State) http://www.kimjaxon.com/digital/
 * Building Connected Courses: Feed Wordpress 101 http://cogdogblog.com/32259
 * Connected Courses (2014, DML) http://connectedcourses.net/