Overcoming cultural agoraphobia A case study Ray Corrigan Open University Gikii VI Göteborg 2011
Overcoming cultural agoraphobia
A case study
Ray CorriganOpen UniversityGikii VI Göteborg 2011
Gikii past
• Maxwell’s demon on the internet
• Monks, books & battles
• Fighter Command's information system
• 5 point plan for the public domain
• Algebra with tiddlywinks
<C.P.Snow’s two cultures>
<Boyle’s cultural agoraphobia>
<Open University>
<Open source teaching project>
<2001 - 2002>
<T182 Law the Internet and Society>
http://vipernt.open.ac.uk/t182/html/welcome/welcome.htm
Cartoons by Tony Seldon
For every human problem there is a solution which is simple, neat and wrong.H.L. Mencken
Only one thing is impossible for God: to find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.Mark Twain
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts – for support rather than illumination.Andrew Lang
<abridged guide to Lessig for six-year-olds>http://vipernt.open.ac.uk/t182/Resources/Ray%20C%20ver%202.mp3
http://vipernt.open.ac.uk/t182/html/resources/transcript_commons.htm
<Hewlett Foundation
http://www.hewlett.org/>
<OU scenarios planning>
<T182 CC’d autumn 2004>http://vipernt.open.ac.uk/t182/html/sectionindex.htm
<Site activity vibrant>
<didn’t ask anyone’s permission>
<take it down; we need to talk about this>
<VC supportive, genuine concerns
Task Group late 2004>
<Academic Board & Council July 2005>
<support – do on big scale>
<Hewlett Foundation $250k>
< Proposal to Hewlett Foundation Nov 2005>
<HF reviewer comments Dec 2005>
<Issues: budget – 2 years ambitious
Licence – CC or bepoke>
<BBC Creative Archive bespoke licence>
<Revised proposal Jan 2006>
<5100 hours Learning Space
8100 hours Lab Space
“robust, scalable OES”
CC>
<HF Board approved $8.9M Feb 2006>
<OpenLearn launched autumn 2006 w 900 hours content>
<lessons>
<Boyle was right>
<we are culturally agoraphobic>
<Institutions are culturally agoraphobic>
<break the logjam>
<shine light on our cultural agoraphobia>
<mature & rational debate>
<people not tools>
<putting people in touch with people>
Links
OpenLearn http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/
T182 http://labspace.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=5851
OLNet http://olnet.org/ (OU and Carnegie Mellon)
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation http://www.hewlett.org/
OU YouTube http://www.youtube.com/ou
OU iTunesU http://open.edu/itunes/
EUSearch Register of Council of EU