Between the Chapters #9 resistance & care for the LMS with @OnlineCrsLady, @brennacgray & @carolak

Summary

On this episode Laura is joined by Brenna, Caroline, & Laura to unpack the learning management system (LMS). We've got a few thoughts, metaphors, and words for you, dear LMS. Listen up!

Show Notes

In this Between the Chapters episode Laura talks with Laura Gibbs, Brenna Clarke Gray, and Caroline Kuhn about Chapter 9: The Learning Management System (LMS). The panel of this episode rejects how the LMS is not “linky” and how closed LMS constrains both the learner and educator from engaging online. But we also caution against how this LMS hub has grown since 2002 in its role for digital teaching and learning for higher ed institutions to also expand into a repository for data collection, learning analytics, and surveillance. Listen to our metaphors and meanderings about the LMS, and what we’ve been thinking about thanks to Martin’s chapter #9:

• Ed-Tech Specialist Fights Proctorio Lawsuit
• In Defence of Ian Linkletter by Brenna
• Defend Linkletter: https://defend.linkletter.org 
• A Teach-In Against Surveillance
• Paulo Freire: the pioneer of critical pedagogy
• Constructivism: Listen to Between the Chapters #
• Surveillance Capitalism
  • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff 
• What did Hannah Arendt really mean by the banality of evil? 
• Silvia Federici: Women, Reproduction, and the Construction of Commons
• Jakob Gowell: Syllabus-as-Metaphor
• Opening up the LMS Walled Garden
• Coronavirus Is the Perfect Disaster for ‘Disaster Capitalism’
  • The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein 
• Words for the LMS: cautious care, strategic use, resistance, transparency, awareness

Questions for Martin & the community:

• Where do we put the resources needed to actually use the LMS?
• What are the metaphors should we collect and dissect around teaching & learning?
• Do you think the LMS is a best practice? Or how do you push against that idea?

Be sure to connect and follow the guests of this episode at:

Laura Gibbs: http://mythfolklore.net/ 

Brenna Clarke Gray: https://blog.communityofpraxis.ca/ 

Caroline Kuhn: https://carolinekuhn.net/ 

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What is 25 Years of Ed Tech?

25 Years of Ed Tech is a serialized audio version of the book 25 Years of Ed Tech, written by Martin Weller of the Open University and published by AU Press. The audio version of the book is a collaborative project with a global community of volunteers contributing their voices to narrate a chapter of the book. Bonus episodes are a series of conversations called "Between the Chapters" to chat about these topics and more!

"In this lively and approachable volume based on his popular blog series, Martin Weller demonstrates a rich history of innovation and effective implementation of ed tech across higher education. From Bulletin Board Systems to blockchain, Weller follows the trajectory of education by focusing each chapter on a technology, theory, or concept that has influenced each year since 1994. Calling for both caution and enthusiasm, Weller advocates for a critical and research-based approach to new technologies, particularly in light of disinformation, the impact of social media on politics, and data surveillance trends. A concise and necessary retrospective, this book will be valuable to educators, ed tech practitioners, and higher education administrators, as well as students."

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Audio book chapters produced by Clint Lalonde.
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