EXCELLENCE & THE WILD RUMPUS: What Networks Mean for Higher Ed "

Bonnie Stewart"University of Prince Edward Island"

Ohio Innovate 2016"@bonstewart #InnovateOSU"

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photo credit: Rachel Peters"

A STORY

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ABOUT HIGHER ED

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…AND CHANGE."

(and wild things)"

SCHOLARLY EXCELLENCE:"

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scholarship"what people

had for lunch"

1. Abundance 2. Networks 3. Excellence"

NETWORKED PRACTICE"

INSTITUTIONS"

•  Product-focused"•  Mastery"•  Time/space-bound"•  Hierarchical ties"•  Authorship/ plagiarism"•  Audience = teacher"

& NETWORKS: "

•  Process-focused"•  Participation"

•  Always accessible"•  Peer-to-peer ties"

•  Crowdsourcing"•  Audience = world"

"

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Only one of many shifts"

SOMETIMES CHANGE IS…SUSPICIOUS. "

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New delivery trends!"Every.

Single. Week."

Scale."

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Casualization. Contingency.

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New management & governance

visions/divisions."

WILD THINGS. MONSTERS."

NOT ALL CHANGE IS MONSTROUS."

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Not all suits (or roles) fit forever."

scholarship"what people

had for lunch"

“THE WILD RUMPUS”

There’s the rub."

We will NOT be sailing home to

someone who loves us best

of all""

In fact, many of us will

never achieve non-contingent status in the

academy"

So. Sad Story. You can’t go home again.

Let’s all go cry in our

coffee? L"

UNPACKING THE RUMPUS:"

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•  Abundance"•  Networked practice"•  Excellence & change"

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Knowledg

e

Abundanc

e"

"For the first time in human history, two related propositions are true. One, it no

longer is possible to store within the human brain all of the information that a human

needs. "

Second, it no longer is necessary to store within the human brain all of the information

that humans need. "

Education needs to be geared toward the handling of data rather than the

accumulation of data.”""

- Context for Communication, Berlo, 1975"

Structure of Abundance = NETWORKS"

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NETWORKING: many-to-many communications"

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Networks are not just for consuming, but connecting"

Many-to-many communications allow us to create ourselves

as network nodes, forming webs of visible (& invisible)

connections"

…and Networked Practices?

In institutional structures, an

individual has a role."

"In a networked

culture, an individual"

has an identity, which it is

his/her job to differentiate."

#ed1to1"

RUMPUS."

NOT SO RUMPUS."

Connecting beyond the walls of our towers"

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Price of admission = public identity !

Good Lord. I think I’ll just opt out."

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There is no

real “out.”

The gates are

open.

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"Abundance:"You can’t avoid

getting wet."You never get

ALL the water. "

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Choose our channels."

…& taming our wild things."

“We’ll eat you up we love you so.”

But what about excellence? "

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Academia & social media: both reputational economies"

Those within the academy become very skilled at judging the stuff of reputations. Where has the person’s work been published, what claims of

priority in discovery have they established, how often have

they been cited, how and where reviewed, what prizes won, what institutional ties earned, what

organizations led?

Willinsky, 2010"

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Networked practices = scholarship"

•  Scholarship of discovery"•  Scholarship of integration"•  Scholarship of application"

•  Scholarship of teaching"

!

(Boyer, 1990)"

Just… scholarship of abundance"

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AND THE PAPERS WANT TO KNOW WHOSE SHIRT YOU WEAR

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UNCOMFORTABLE"

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ESPECIALLY THE MORE WE’RE INVESTED OR ALIGNED

WITH THE STATUS QUO."

NAVIGATING COMPLEX SIGNALS:"

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Some will come from scholarly sources:"

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Still value & beauty in familiar forms

Some won’t."

Some may look like

play.

or new voices."

or community."

or criticism."

…or care."

•  What kinds of professional conversations do you want access

to? With whom? From where?"

•  What audiences do you want for your students?"

•  What do you – and your students – have to offer that isn’t being

seen right now?"

LET THE WILD RUMPUS of abundance & networks & excellence BEGIN!"

Tell me how your story goes from here."

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@bonstewart"bstewart@upei.ca"