Pedagogy

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Martin Weller

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Less a presentationMore a discussion

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Economics as metaphor

• Warning metaphors are dangerous and imperfect!

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Warning: Metaphors are dangerous

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Supply and demand

Music – talent is scarce, hard to find, record it, resource is manufactured according to demand, access is scarce (opening hours, stock, etc)

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When music is abundant what is the model?Talent is still scarce, but access to it is easyDistribution is instantModel of scarcity breaks down

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Abundance responses

• Long tail • Freemium• Services• Digital is free – pay for object• Ads• Content free – experience• Enterprise versions

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Scarcity responses

• DRM• Legal enforcement• Subscription

• Expertise is scarce – build model around it• Learners (demand) come to where expert is (supply)• Group many experts together for convenience =

university

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• Pedagogy of scarcity:• Lecture – one to many• Library?• Instructivism/didactic

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What would a pedagogy of abundance look like?

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Assumptions

• Content is free• Content is abundant• Content is varied• Sharing is easy• Social based• Connections are ‘lite’• Organisation is ‘cheap’• Based on a generative system• Crowdsourcing• Network is valuable

Resource based learning:

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Problem based learning

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Constructivism

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Communities of practice

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Connectivism!

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3 possible conclusions

1. There is nothing in the pedagogy of abundance2. We have enough theories just need to recast them3. None of the existing theories quite captures new tech &

behaviour & new one is required

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