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Putting the Classroom in the Computer: The Rhetoric of the Open Courseware Movement Elizabeth Losh University of California, Irvine
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1) tensions between regulation and content-creation in institutions such as government agencies, universities, and corporations
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failure and more failure
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2) tensions between a culture of knowledge and a culture of information updating the “two cultures argument” not just about “print culture” vs. “digital culture”
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epistemological issues: appearance and reality vs. contingency and probability
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3) tensions between “openness” and “reputation” as institutions seek to promote their “brands”
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risk to institutional ethos and the law of unintended consequences: unplanned audiences and purposes the case of videorecorded lectures posted online
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rethinking the digital divide: no longer just computers in classrooms
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open research and scholarship
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looking at language: a rhetoric of openness
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open pedagogy: participatory culture, P2P education, and personalized intelligent tutoring
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looking at the gap between open information and open education
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how is “open courseware” different from “open source software”?
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what are the ideologies of “openness”? how are they different from the ideologies of “freedom” and “honesty” we already have when we talk about “academic freedom” or “academic honesty”? what are the rhetorics opposing “openness”? “commercial interest”? “security”? “exclusivity”? “stability”? “selectivity”? “privacy”? “constraint”? does it really avoid the double meanings of “free”? why not “shared”?
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where are words like “labor” and “consumption”?
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institutional rhetorics: MIT as a non-”lovemark” campus
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institutional rhetorics: the Harvard response
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a pre-history of cathedrals and bazaars
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a shared pedagogical initiative
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resisting being trapped in the web anxieties about ownership of intellectual property anxieties about the leveling effect anxieties about how public a public intellectual should be anxieties about the privacy of students anxieties about the alienation of labor anxieties about the colonization of lifeworld by system
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a rhetoric of disclaimers: what it is not
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distance learning agendas
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corporate competition and derivative works: arguments against the public domain
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how will this affect the Googlization of universities? can we have open access without open search?
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costs to the public sphere creating more shut-ins
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the afterlife of SPIDER the reputation economy of open courses
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