Open Education Networks
Open learning communities inspired by the free culture movement, offer alternatives to the bricks and mortars model of universities as knowledge factories. I will be presenting a sample of these emerging hybrid-flexible online learning models- that are being developed wth the help of social technologies within the academia.
Paula Roush is an artist-educator-researcher. She is a lecturer in digital photography at the London South Bank University where she teaches courses on artists publications and self-publishing practices, performativity and surveillance space. She also teaches the theory module for the MA in Art and Media practice at the University of Westminster. She is the founder of msdm [msdm.org.uk], a platform with a fluctuating body of collaborators exploring mobile strategies of display & mediation. With a focus on performative installation, msdm has developed a a transdisciplinary practice that encompasses online technologies and site-specific approaches to participatory live art.
