Treviranus, Jutta (2010) The value of imperfection: The Wabi-Sabi Principle in aesthetics and learning. In: 7th Annual Open Education Conference, 2010, Barcelona, Spain.

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Abstract

OER-based learning has the potential to overcome many shortcomings and problems of traditional education. It is not hampered by IP restrictions; can depend on collaborative, cumulative, iterative refinement of resources; and the digital form provides unprecedented flexibility with respect to configuration and delivery. The OER community is a progressive group of educators and learners with decades of learning research to draw from, who know that we must prepare learners for an evolving and diverse reality. Despite this OER tends to replicate the unsuccessful characteristics of traditional education. To remedy this we may need to remember the importance of imperfection, mistakes, problems, disagreement, and the incomplete for engaged learning, and relinquish our notions of perfection, acknowledging that learners learn differently and we need diverse learners. We must stretch our perceptions of quality and provide mechanisms for engaging the incredible pool of educators globally to fulfill the promise of inclusive education.

Item Type:	Conference/Workshop Item (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	inclusive design, deep learning, marginalized learners, global network, collaborative production, accessibility, FLOE project
Divisions:	Faculty of Design Research Programs > Inclusive Design Research Centre (IDRC)
Date Deposited:	31 Aug 2016 19:37
Last Modified:	20 Dec 2021 19:30
URI:	https://openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/1202

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