Some descriptive text about the Concepts category

Institutional Portfolio
OSS centralizes content and learning management for students and faculty at the class level. This way, students document their own work within the context of their studies so that faculty can…
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Students as Authors
By establishing a public space for documenting work, students are more deeply invested in the practice of writing, with each assignment, process post, media documentation, and other creative activity…
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Peer-to-Peer Artistic Practice
We do not work in a vacuum: the reciprocal nature of the artistic process, of collective research and collaborative creative activity is essential to OSS. Methods of online writing have been…
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Open Source Approach
Open source thinking is critical to the OSS networked practice of art, research, and pedagogy. For many, “open source” is a challenge to proprietary forms of thinking, an activist position:…
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The Third Space
The idea of a third space environment on the Internet represents the fusion of the physical (first space) and the remote (second space) into a networked, shared third space that is socially…
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Public vs Private
This is the dilemma facing educators today: how to draw the line between public and private, when to be open, what to protect, issues of intellectual property, issues of publishing unfinished…
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