{"id":338,"date":"2015-04-18T17:26:27","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T17:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.wordpress.com\/?p=338"},"modified":"2015-04-18T17:26:27","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T17:26:27","slug":"edtech-leadership-an-experiment-in-open-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":"#edtech leadership: an experiment in open practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/photo-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-333 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/photo-2.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Leadership as open practice: an experiment (@marendeepwell)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/photo-2.jpg 768w, https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/photo-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/photo-2-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week I spent two days in Cardiff at the <a href=\"https:\/\/oer15.oerconf.org\/\">#oer15 conference<\/a> on Mainstreaming Open Education. I was able to ask one of the keynote speakers, Sheila MacNeill, a question and I asked about what she would like to see happen next to help further openness. Her response was &#8216;getting senior decision makers engaged&#8217; &#8211; and that got me thinking. \u00a0What would I like to see happen, what would I want, not in my capacity as CEO\u00a0of the Association for Learning Technology, but as a senior decision maker and as someone who works with others who hold roles of responsibility. Something Sheila had mentioned earlier in her keynote was my answer: I&#8217;d like to try and adopt open practice in my role and connect with others who do the same. Like teachers, researchers or developers who share their practice and resources openly, I&#8217;ll try to follow their example. To make my work, which is mostly about leadership, governance and management in Learning Technology, an open practice. This is the experiment that I&#8217;m starting with this blog post.<\/p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zcd6PxNvulk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<p>Let me unpack what I am thinking about: this is not about transparency\u00a0or\u00a0democracy. Indeed, the organisation I serve has openness as one of its core values from governance to publishing to the services we provide.\u00a0I\u00a0am not thinking about what my organisation does, but what and how I do my job. Like a teacher who may share what they do, I&#8217;ll use what I do as a basis for sharing, reflecting and practicing in the open. \u00a0To try and conduct myself, in my role, as an open practitioner, an open leader. That\u2019s the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>A quick search shows me that there is already a lot of advice out there about how to become a better leader by using open software, by using social media, to transform an organisation through open licencing&#8230; and so forth. But I don&#8217;t intend for this, most likely a series of blog posts to begin with, to be about getting ahead\u00a0by making &#8216;open&#8217; work for me. \u00a0No, my main motivation is twofold: to join a community of open practitioners using my day to day work as a basis and to see if this process can make being in a position of power and responsibility less like an island.<\/p>\n<p>My experience over the past three years of working with others who hold roles like mine is that most, like me, don&#8217;t have a lot of space for reflecting on their practice. I am fortunate to have excellent support from colleagues and my mentor and so I&#8217;ve always been able to create space for me to focus on what I do as well as whom I serve or represent. This experiment is about making this space open &#8211; transitioning from the safety of an audience of one, me, to the relative uncertainty of open practice. I am curious to see if in a few months or years I, too, become an open practitioner. As a first step, I am going seek others who have done the same and see what I can learn from their example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week I spent two days in Cardiff at the #oer15 conference on Mainstreaming Open Education. I was able to ask one of the keynote speakers, Sheila MacNeill, a question and I asked about what she would like to see happen next to help further openness. Her response was &#8216;getting senior decision makers engaged&#8217; &#8211; and that got me thinking. \u00a0What would I like to see happen, what would I want, not in my&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/?p=338\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#edtech leadership: an experiment in open practice<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership","category-learning-technology","category-open-practice","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7wa4N-5s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}