User:Peterrawsthorne/PhD

At the moment, I am accumulating works to prove my success. I see the review of all these works in combination with some effective publishing in a number of forms as giving credibility (and the opportunity for critical review) to my work. I will be open and public with my works through the;

1. Use my blog (and related channels) for formative and summative notes and reflection.
2. A whole lot of other artifacts, coming soon

What do I consider an Open PhD?

It's the combination of putting in the time to become a master in an identified subject, advancing the body of knowledge in the chosen subject and doing it all in the open with transparency. Openness with transparency is publishing as much of the process as possible. This includes keeping a learning journal and publishing all writings without copyright.

What is being a master?

Mastery is being so familiar and comfortable with a subject that responding to questions / situations within the subject is done without hesitation or second guessing the response. Mastery is also knowing where the boundaries are within the subject and how to best approach investigating the boundaries. Mastery also includes be considered a master of a subject by others who are also masters of the subject.

What do I already consider myself a master?

1. As an Educator with over 15 years facilitating learning at Colleges, Universities and a variety of online locations
2. As a Solutions Architect where I have built complex (and not so complex) software systems for a whole plethora of organizations, from start-ups to huge enterprises.
3. As a sailor, traveler and back-country explorer
4. As a builder of Online Communities
5. Gardener and home builder

What would I like to consider myself a master?

1. Musician
2. Folk Music Historian (with Focus on Morris Dancing)
3. Master boat-builder

Why am I doing this?

Because I am really worried that the education system isn't going to prepare my kids for the world they are entering. I believe that education needs to be much more self-directed and the credentials from antiquated and costly institutions are becoming meaningless. My thoughts regarding this issue is well articulated in my post on educational ROI.

Area of Study

My PhD will draw on both my two professional areas of expertise; Technology and Pedagogy. And as my profile states, "...as being hellbent to implement the ideas in and around pedagogy, new media, social networks and communities of practice."

Technology Realm

Within this realm I aspire to create / add to the online body of knowledge focused on solution architecture.

• http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Solution_Architecture

Pedagogical Realm

Within this realm I aspire to create / add to the online body of knowledge focused on life long learning and the online tools and approaches that facilitates this activity. My focus on life long learning could be considered the role of the educational technologist. Though, I do intend my focus upon contributing to the descriptions of life long learning and related pedagogical subjects.

Educational Technologist Concept Map

Folk Music and Dance Realm

I'm a Morris dancer and I love the music and dance that occurs within this realm. I intend this realm to be the anchor to all my pedagogical and technological studies and research.

Personal Curriculum Map

Learning the Pipe and Tabor

Area of Research

My current thinking has me building a Web2.0 based massively collaborative assessment system in PhP / MySQL. More on this later...

Consumption

Readings

Published book reviews since January 2011

1. "A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change", (2011), Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown. http://criticaltechnology.blogspot.com/2011/03/new-culture-of-learning.html
2. "Programming Collective Intelligence; Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications", (2007), Toby Segaran. http://criticaltechnology.blogspot.com/2011/05/book-review-programming-collective.html
3. "Talent is Overrated", (2008), Geoff Colvin. http://criticaltechnology.blogspot.com/2011/06/book-review-talent-is-overrated.html

Delicious tags

http://www.delicious.com/tags/prawstho

Contributions

WikiEducator

http://wikieducator.org/User:Prawstho

During my time at WikiEducator I accumulated considerable amount of experience in furthering the 'cause' of OER. All this is best shown through my profile page.

Baselines

Doing a PhD in the open is also about publishing and having your work recognized. How better than using the social media to publish your works and increase the viewership of the work. Is this a peer review, I believe so... particularly through the endorsement of your work through accumulating followers, commenting and backtracks.

Social media

Followers

Twitter

• 25 January 2011 = 425
• 29 January 2012 = 543

LinkedIn

• 26 January 2011 = 248
• 29 January 2012 = 292

Slideshare

26 January 2011 = 14

YouTube

26 January 2011 = 4

Wikipedia Edits (As of July 2011)

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_dictionary

Wikiversity Edits (As of July 2011)

1. http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Talk:Greater_Access_Choice_and_Flexibility:_Learning_at_University_of_Canberra

Blogging (As of January 2011)

relevant subject areas

• http://criticaltechnology.blogspot.com/search/label/openphd
• http://criticaltechnology.blogspot.com/search/label/pipeandtabor
• http://criticaltechnology.blogspot.com/search/label/nophd
• http://criticaltechnology.blogspot.com/search/label/collective
• http://criticaltechnology.blogspot.com/search/label/inspired
• http://criticaltechnology.blogspot.com/search/label/fair-dealing

number of relevant comments (14)

I sometimes get involved in discussions related to pedagogy, technology and life-long learning. I will journal these discussion here.

1. 3 August 2011
   1. Discussion about professional development for teachers and faculty; http://www.tonybates.ca/2011/08/01/why-the-current-professional-development-model-is-broken/
2. 23 April 2011
   1. WSIS Platform of Communities: Should OER favour commercial use? http://www.wsis-community.org/pg/debates/group:14358/overview/251476
3. 28 March 2011
   1. Paul Stacey from BCcampus: Open Education and Policy https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/26963
   2. How Can We Scale Educational Innovations? http://blogs.hbr.org/innovations-in-education/2011/03/how-can-we-scale-educational-i.html
4. 15 March 2011 - Student as Narcissist
   1. http://keanewheeler.blogspot.com/2011/03/university-student-narcissism.html
5. 23 February 2011 - interesting discussion around home bases and outposts within the legal publishing perspective.
   1. http://lawyerist.com/blogging-provides-publishing-platform-and-offers-control/#comments
6. 26 January 2011 - bit of a flame war regarding #ds106. The real value was the discussion on branding within edu2.0 and working within academia. What later came from this "flame war" was how weak social media relationships can be. People I considered friends quickly turned on me... I think I was not a part of the "in" crowd so I wasn't allowed to play with them anymore ;)
   1. http://www.flickr.com/photos/97283472@N00/5389150753/
   2. http://bavatuesdays.com/a-little-confused/#comments

Artifacts

Slideshare

1. as of 26 January 2011 = 9

Youtube

1. as of 26 January 2011 = 12