Sociology 1027A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Open Content

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 1027A/B
• Professor: Wolfgang Lehmann

Document Summary

Throughout the speech, anya refers to the education system as one built upon a rather conservative model that is aiming to retain and perfect the past. She discusses what education provides us with: it provides content (skills/knowledge, it provides socialization (independency, connecting with peers, it provides accreditation (the diploma itself worth) Anya uses the key word open as what we need to do to change higher education: she says we need to open content by opening things up digitally e. g. digital textbooks. This would move the position of a teacher/lecturer to that of a mentor , or learning resource that helps coach students along the way in learning. This is currently working through massively open online courses where people learn together and critique others" work. We also see this is peer2peer universities where self-organized online classes are taught by volunteers.