On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 5:00 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Thomas Levine <[email protected]> > > Adi's comment about his very very very free-culture--friendly teacher > made me realize what I write below. > > Two situations where this is absolutely awesome > 1 Students are comfortable having their goofiness leaked. > 2 Students dislike the lectures but go because some sort of > proprietary information is presented only in lecture > > The typical example of 2 is where a teacher doesn't post lecture > slides on line in order to encourage people to go to class rather than > coming up with a more elegant ways of getting people to go to class, > like teaching better. > > 2 is most annoying when the teacher uses non-standard terminology, > which is pretty hard not to do in a specialized field. I'm mainly > thinking of my major, which you might consider to be "design" and > social science of the built environment.
Thomas, I think you're hitting an important nail on the head: Pedagogy matters. Not all disciplines, departments, and schools have the same pedagogical customs and not all pedagogical techniques translate easily to OER. Back around 2006, I remember a major push-back to OER in K-12 was that there wasn't very much that could be easily shared. You can't share the experience of group interaction, peer learning, discussion, and other fundamental tools of project-based learning. At the very worst, teachers feared that OER enabled the dissemination of only the most boring, least effective techniques -- what people in the biz call "chalk-n-talk." One cool outcome of LectureLeaks might be to see which lectures and lecture styles work best. I haven't seen much data about this. For example, what are the most popular lectures on iTunesU? Lots of people listen to podcasts like RadioLab - anyone on this list listening to academic lectures for fun? Kevin _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
