Agile & open course development
Agile & open course development
Can courses be developed and shared online, how do we involve students in curriculum development? What are the advantages of being open and collaborative and sharing pedagogic approaches?
Many thanks for your post Alex, a lot of your references are new to me so I look forward to looking at them in more detail. The agile approach is working really well, I'd happy for parts of this project to be forever agile although we have a new challenge at the moment of trying to define exactly what process.arts is and if it can function as an 'official' service as such. Stability is good although we don't want to stand too still.
All the best
Chris Follows
Bloom's Taxonomy
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom's_Taxonomy
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Uncourse to shortcourse
http://www.slideshare.net/psychemedia/uncourse-to-shortcourse
I think you've got a good idea here with Agile and Open Source...
It reminds me of a paper cybernetician Stafford Beer wrote, something like the "History of Manchester business School 1970- 1980". His idea was to run a business school a bit like a bazaar. People turned up at the start of the day, set out their stall, saw what was on offer and solve the learning needs in a free for all.
Also in Manchester we had Reg Revans whose Action Learning sets are pretty much about Agile learning. Bunch of people meet up with different problems and help each other reflect and learn... double loop learning and all that.
Enid Mumford is perhaps less well known, but she had a direct influence on Agile. She advocated that users of systems had a role in their design. She also was an early adopter of open learning, one of her books is available online in wonderful old school HTML [1]
Agile and things like DSDM have been around the block a few times in business schools, from my experience they are being quietly forgotten. Adults learning about business while still at work have been replaced by lucrative MBA students. I think its very interesting and exciting to see this idea emerging in arts practice. Combining methods of learning from business, technology and art is an idea close to my heart, but I found it quite difficult to transfer art school mainstays like post-modernism to my fellow business students.
Agile and Open Source might also be suitable for mature students. They can bring the experience only age can bring to arts practice.
As a keen TiddlyWiki community member, I have thought "if only my education was like this, everything seems to work on its own and the people are so helpful and plain nice"
I am new to the process arts project, i came here via twitter a couple of time. I am becoming a fan...
Alex
[1] http://www.enid.u-net.com/C1book1.htm [2] http://tiddlywiki.com