Arcadia Seminar: 2nd March 2010 "A Pedagogy of Abundance - new teaching models for a digital age" , Prof. Martin Weller, OU
04 February, 2010
In economics previous models were based on an assumption of scarcity. In a digital world we have abundance and many of these models do not apply. There are two types of response to this, the abundance response which assumes it and the scarcity response which tries to recreate scarcity models in a digital format. Freemium is an example of the former and DRM an example of the latter. I then explore whether there are similar arguments to be made for pedagogy based on the following assumptions:
Content is free
Content is abundant
Content is varied
Sharing is easy
Social based
Connections are lite
Organisation is cheap
Based on a generative system
Crowdsourcing
Network is valuable