MOOCs! What? – A debate around professional educational jargon. Is it good for inclusion? Do we need to promote staff awareness? With Sheila Greenwood H818 Join me at the 2015 H818 Networked Practitioner conference on “Open Education in an Open Landscape”
1. MOOCs! What? A debate around professional educational
jargon. Is it good for inclusion? Do we need to promote staff
awareness? With Sheila Greenwood H818 Join me at the 2015 H818
Networked Practitioner conference on Open Education in an Open
Landscape
2. MOOCs! What? A debate on professional jargon. By Sheila
Greenwood H818 Interact with my Wordle head to join in a quiz or a
short survey. To participate watch the automated presentation, or
click on each of the numbers as you wish.
3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 References Please see accessible version KEY 1)
Visual Moocs Intro 2) Professional jargon quiz 3) Jargon Video 4)
Educational Prezi 5) Jargon Survey 6) Moderation Jargon Clip
5. This project reflects the use of Jargon in education: 1. A
tool of exclusion? 2. An efficient technical language? 3. "Cheeping
birds? (Bolton, 2013)
7. Test your knowledge of Jargon from another profession.
Professional Jargon Quiz County Council Speak a) What does it mean
when a department is top down? 1. It is short staffed? 2. It has
too many managers? 3. It ignores people? b) Idea is a simple word,
but what do councils use instead? 1. Seedbed? 2. Green shoot? 3.
Sapling? a) Answer 3 It ignores people. b) Answer 1 Seedbed.
10. "If a discipline is to effectively control its intellectual
turf, it cannot afford to be too easy to understand by outsiders.
Jargon may serve as a convenient medium for practitioners, but it
simultaneously serves as a way of excluding interlopers, namely
those who have not served their time in study and research."
(Martin, 1992)
11. Secret Teacher: Jargon is ruining our children's
education
15. Jargon has its place in specialised technical communities,
where it helps communication and understanding. Once outside the
community you have to explain clearly what you mean, or risk
excluding people. People using jargon to posture, evade, confuse or
exclude people, should not be tolerated. TIP Ask the question, I
dont understand what you mean.(Bolton 2013)
16. Thank you for viewing my poster. See you at the H818
Conference 2015
17. References Open University, (2015) Initial conference call
for the 2015 H818 Networked Practitioner conference on Open
Education in an Open Landscape. Available at
https://Learn2open.ac.uk/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=548651 Martin,
B. (1992) Why academic jargon thrives published as Secret passwords
at the gate of knowledge, The Australian, 23 September 1992, p.16.
Available at https://www.uow.edu.au/~bmartin/pubs/92aust09.html
Bolton, B. (2013) Jargon. A tool of exclusion, efficient technical
language or just the cheeping of birds? Whats the PONT. Available
at
http://whatsthepont.com/2013/04/28/jargon-a-tool-of-exclusion-efficient-
technical-language-or-just-the-cheeping-of-birds/ Jargon Video
(Edited Clip) Jargon (2012), YouTube video added by Andy Plattner,
[online]. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80ZCuhtn35g
The Secret Teacher (2014), Jargon is ruining our childrens
education. The Guardian, Saturday 9 August 2014. Available at
www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/teacher-blog/2014/aug/09/secret-
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