Comments on: Punks hate hippies… http://blogs.ubc.ca/brian/2008/06/punks-hate-hippies/ social learning, open education, and petty battles with rivals over power and money... Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:24:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Christopher D. Sessums http://blogs.ubc.ca/brian/2008/06/punks-hate-hippies/comment-page-1/#comment-1978 Christopher D. Sessums Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:49:36 +0000 http://migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca/brian2/2008/06/02/punks-hate-hippies/#comment-1978 Finally, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finally_the_Punk_Rockers_Are_Taking_Acid" rel="nofollow">the punks are taking acid...</a> Finally, the punks are taking acid…

]]> By: Christopher D. Sessums http://blogs.ubc.ca/brian/2008/06/punks-hate-hippies/comment-page-1/#comment-1982 Christopher D. Sessums Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:48:43 +0000 http://migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca/brian2/2008/06/02/punks-hate-hippies/#comment-1982 Finally, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finally_the_Punk_Rockers_Are_Taking_Acid">the punks are taking acid...</a> Finally, the punks are taking acid…

]]> By: Rick Schwier http://blogs.ubc.ca/brian/2008/06/punks-hate-hippies/comment-page-1/#comment-1981 Rick Schwier Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:55:07 +0000 http://migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca/brian2/2008/06/02/punks-hate-hippies/#comment-1981 Now that's fun, Brian! I'm sitting here in my office, paid for by tax dollars, ka-chunking up another day of salary, paid for by tax dollars, and reviewing applications to our program -- a big part of which includes deciding who won't have access to a lot of what we do. Owww! I guess I can take some small comfort in knowing that along with a lot of people, I'm trying to open up the system, making as much of it as I can free and accessible. But I guess there's no denying that I'm part of the system that excludes others. And I love universities and higher education, all the while disliking their exclusivity. There's the dichotomy. Now that’s fun, Brian! I’m sitting here in my office, paid for by tax dollars, ka-chunking up another day of salary, paid for by tax dollars, and reviewing applications to our program — a big part of which includes deciding who won’t have access to a lot of what we do. Owww!

I guess I can take some small comfort in knowing that along with a lot of people, I’m trying to open up the system, making as much of it as I can free and accessible. But I guess there’s no denying that I’m part of the system that excludes others. And I love universities and higher education, all the while disliking their exclusivity. There’s the dichotomy.

]]> By: Jeremy http://blogs.ubc.ca/brian/2008/06/punks-hate-hippies/comment-page-1/#comment-1980 Jeremy Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:16:04 +0000 http://migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca/brian2/2008/06/02/punks-hate-hippies/#comment-1980 Great post (as was your intense and awesome last one)...you're right, the labels themselves may be wrong, but there is probably an ethos hidden in this (bad) label that could be a force for good over time. And I liked edujazz better, but EduStringQuartet could work. Great post (as was your intense and awesome last one)…you’re right, the labels themselves may be wrong, but there is probably an ethos hidden in this (bad) label that could be a force for good over time.

And I liked edujazz better, but EduStringQuartet could work.

]]> By: Tony Hirst http://blogs.ubc.ca/brian/2008/06/punks-hate-hippies/comment-page-1/#comment-1979 Tony Hirst Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:58:22 +0000 http://migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca/brian2/2008/06/02/punks-hate-hippies/#comment-1979 As someone who used to gatecrash philosophy and computer science courses while i was doing an electronics degree, I completely believe in "if the teacher is worth anything at all, he’ll let you stay." And it's one of the hugely problematic things I'm faced with as an educator (?!) in a distance learning organisation, where we don't even let students have access to materials from the online courses they've taken (paid for) a month or two after they've finished them, let alone open them up to anyone who wants to wander by, even if they are registered on other courses we offer... Which is partly why I've started drafting materials for future courses /in public/ - such as on my Digital Worlds uncourse blog... After all, if the materials are only in draft form, haven't been edited and checked, and aren't paced by a published curriculum or course calendar, then I'm not really given our distance ed courses away, right? And if the uncourse blog is on a public web domain, then it's reader beware and obviously not an officially sanctioned or released course? Maybe... As someone who used to gatecrash philosophy and computer science courses while i was doing an electronics degree, I completely believe in “if the teacher is worth anything at all, he’ll let you stay.”

And it’s one of the hugely problematic things I’m faced with as an educator (?!) in a distance learning organisation, where we don’t even let students have access to materials from the online courses they’ve taken (paid for) a month or two after they’ve finished them, let alone open them up to anyone who wants to wander by, even if they are registered on other courses we offer…

Which is partly why I’ve started drafting materials for future courses /in public/ – such as on my Digital Worlds uncourse blog…

After all, if the materials are only in draft form, haven’t been edited and checked, and aren’t paced by a published curriculum or course calendar, then I’m not really given our distance ed courses away, right? And if the uncourse blog is on a public web domain, then it’s reader beware and obviously not an officially sanctioned or released course?

Maybe…

]]>