Revised and Expanded "Edupunk" Research Topic

Feedback and comments are always appreciated!

Summary:

"Edupunks" are a group of educational technologists who resist corporate learning management systems because of these systems' capitalist tendencies to overshadow the social/communal aspects of Web 2.0 applications. According to Jim Groom, an educational technologist who coined the term "Edupunk," the learning management system Blackboard 8 is usurping the ideas, innovations and experiments of thousands of people, re-packaging them and selling them to schools at high prices.

In Graham Cormode and Balachander Krishnamurthy's article, "Key Differences Between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0," Web 2.0 applications have a democratic, community focus because they let anyone play content creator and even provide technological aids to help maximize this shared creation. "Edupunks" wish to keep educational technology open, available and community-centered like the Web 2.0 applications it uses because, writes Groom, "community and its culture is what makes any technology meaningful and relevant."

So, through interviews and research, I hope to:

• find ways to create effective learning management systems using "Edupunk" ideologies
• explore the problems an educator or institution might encounter adopting these ideologies (like problems of privacy)
• and see if institutions of higher education in Utah prefer corporate LMSs over more free-form systems

References:

Towards a pattern language for Learning Management Systems:
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.109.2445&rep=rep1&type=pdf#page=15.

Differences between Web 1.0 and 2.0:
http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2125/1972

Edupunk rocks the virtual house:
http://elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?src=PulseWeeklyDigestV2&et=20&requiredUser=64427264739&loginEmail=waterpetah@hotmail.com&el=en_nl&forceSignin=1&section=articles&article=65-1

Jim Groom's "The Glass Bees" blog entry (sparked Edupunk):
http://bavatuesdays.com/the-glass-bees/

Blackboard's "Unlocking the Global Education Imperative"
http://www.blackboard.com/CMSPages/GetFile.aspx?guid=6032f8df-b6ba-4510-81d2-3198459529dc

Why we need Edupunk:
http://www.ris.uvt.ro/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/mebner.pdf

Is Your University Ready for the Ne(x)t Generation?:
http://lamp.tu-graz.ac.at/~i203/ebner/publication/09_edmedia_netgeneration.pdf

Assessing Learning Mangement Systems:
http://74.125.155.132/scholar?q=cache:khD8KsKSsHsJ:scholar.google.com/+Online+Learning+Management+Systems&hl=en

Not Dead Yet: Why the Institutional LMS is Worth Saving:
http://elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=opinion&article=118-1

Once an Edupunk, Always an Edupunk:
http://elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=opinion&article=101-1

Frustrated With Corporate Course-Management Systems, Some Professors Go 'Edupunk':
http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Frustrated-With-Corporate/3977

How Web-Savvy Edupunks are Transforming American Higher Education:
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/138/who-needs-harvard.html?page=0%2C0

Possible Individual Interviews:

Edupunks Stephen Downes and Jim Groom

Directors of online learning at USU, WSU, U of U, BYU, UVU, CEU, SUU