You Tube adds something to conferences / how to value student experience?

 Couple of events sort of cross over. My video has been accepted for an academic conference - Urban Assemblage , part of #mediatedcity stream. Also the Observer yesterday reported that UK students may want a refund if there is a third year of online teaching when the advert was for the full experience.

It seems there is a plan for various forms of mix but no clear decision yet. My guess is that the real issues are more long term. An online or blended course could well be cheaper and some students will prefer this. It could be part time or extended with jobs or supported by companies. At the moment the research base has more than enough demand so this may seem way off. The scale of things is still unknown.

But I think the print newspapers have their own reasons for not reporting on digital possibility, however close it gets. News and comment may move online also. See previous posts.

The Urban Assemblage conference is completely online through circumstance. It was to have been in London for keynotes, then in Hatfield. The video aspect was public a few days ago on YouTube. You may need the conference PDF to make much sense of them, or you should just watch them all.  

I have commented on two of them. E. Duygun & D. Koca describe how design advice from Airbandb has developed and influenced how homes are now arranged.

I asked if something similar could happen through MOOC platforms such as Coursera and Futurelearn. Reply so far -

Esra Duygun

1 day ago

In fact, the platforms you mentioned can be considered as a new generation university. It provides data to a very large audience compared to the usual education and training field and at the same time allows data to be collected in this field. This situation is reflected in all areas of life, especially in visual learning such as design, its effects are spreading rapidly. This effect reveals a design that tends to coalesce on a global basis, but this reveals a design process for a global anonymous user that is independent of the user, which is the basis of the design process, and factors such as culture, geography, personality and lifestyle. Unfortunately, this situation causes a uniformity on a global basis when we look specifically at design.

(I will come back to this later. The learner has some influence on the situation, many of these courses are just part of something else. more local )

John Wild talks about the visibility of infrastructure in East London. This includes a record of walks in real space, described as an art performance. I would like to know more about this as theory or as guidance for other events. I have tried out walks on the Lancaster campus spine as a way to discuss tech and learning. The lecture by Peter Horrocks on the Fortress University could be followed by performance in the setting of fortress ruins, location such as Kendal Castle. I need a bit more basis in theory to move things on a bit.

The archive of all sessions will be available for a couple of weeks so I can check out how much connects to the YouTube level. More in later posts.

“It’s just not fair to charge £9,250 a year for YouTube tutorials,” said Rhian Shillabeer, a second-year politics student who wrote an open letter to her university, Kent, signed by hundreds of students.

#TempRadioStudio in Exeter reality

 Following the Kinder Exeter weekend something continues. Kinder Leeds in October, Exmouth probably next year. The Commentators have shown how mobile radio can work, but only for one day. The archive turns up later but what else is possible? I will be looking for sound clips for the Phonic FM drama show, still pre-recorded and also mentioning updates on Wild show and We Don't Know, both Phonic FM. The #TempRadioStudio is part of Urban Assemblage at the end of this month, but continues into July as links are found.

Last week Exeter Culture had a launch event Get In, Get Out, Get On . Video online soon. The direction is promote outside performance during what is left of the lockdown. https://openairperformance.com/ links to events in July and August. There is research from this into performance. My interest continues in how the campus model for HE has adjusted during the lockdown. Will online continue? Why continue to build student accommodation when it may not be needed? What forms of knowledge are possible in a city anyway? So far this is playful enough to just about fit in. I imagine the Ruins of the Fortress University as described in Durham by Peter Horrocks. See previous posts.

Anyway, back on the calendar. In October there is Exeter Fringe, a style of theatre. Some of it will be outside, certainly the fringe of the fringe I may get to know about. The Wild Show version of Having A Wonderful Time may happen in August, depending on weather forecasts. Also the Royal Albert Memorial Museum plans a Museum at Large event in October, details later.

Sound is moving online. People find music from streaming as well as radio. Some sound on YouTube for example has a Creative commons licence so can be remixed. Is it possible for all the radio signals that can be heard in Exeter to share content in some ways? Very short quotes for the purpose of review and comment have always been possible. but a #TempRadioStudio is only possible as an idea if various bits are shared. Assuming the lockdown is discontinued then there will be a mix of experiments working at home and a return to studio resources. This is a good space for experiments so that something similar continues.

Expanded Tweet , Urban Assemblage is next week , also Kinder Exeter / Learning technology online

 Back to the blog just to keep things in one place. Tweets are more frequent. I still am not sure what "Urban Assemblage" is all about. My video has arrived I think, not sure when it will be public. Meanwhile in Exeter this past Saturday the Commentators were part of Kinder Exeter. This is a form of theatre essentially but the tech is also interesting. Outdoor mics with wind shields connect to a speaker on trolley. Just above is a large plastic bag to protect the rest of the kit including a mobile phone and several cables. They managed to concentrate between 10 and 3 but I think a broadcast would need more of a mix, some sort of studio / music. Anyway the tech shows that a #TempRadioStudio is possible.

This week and next there is an online version of Learning Technologies - Digital Experience . So I will check out some of this was well. Meanwhile BETT is promoting the remaining space at a real event next year. I think all this can be mixed up. Russell Prue from what was BETT Radio continues in schools or online with links. the equipment could be used in HE or any company. Stephen Heppell supports online but also ventilation in learning spaces ( research on oxygen ) so this shows why hybrid / blended / space design matters.