EDU036 – Is Punk dead (in education)? Jim Groom was the “poster boy of edupunk”. Today he is opening a store that does not sell anything.
Jim Groom came to Hamburg for OERcamp. He brought his son and some most fundamental thoughts.
Jim Groom, one of the founders of the Edupunk movement, reflects on nearly two decades of challenging mainstream educational technology and argues that higher education has become trapped in cycles of platforms, metrics and institutional control. In conversation with Jöran Muuß-Merholz, he revisits the origins of Edupunk, discusses the rise and decline of open, web-based learning spaces, and explains why reclaiming personal ownership of digital identities matters more than ever. Drawing on projects…
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