Powerpoint version of slides used by Jon Dron and Terry Anderson for their presentation at Open Access Week 2011.

Abstract:

This presentation presents  the theory and practice of Open Learning as implemented in Athabasca University’s Beyond the LMS social networking system. The presentation discusses the motivation , design and challenges encountered in the first two years of Athabasca Landing (an elgg-based social networking environment). Reference will be made to the disruptive nature of the technology in regard to  the limits of openness, resistance to sharing, context-sensitivity, controllability, ownership, responsibility, soft security, distributed design, managing complexity and  crossing the formal/informal divide etc.