Edupunk

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Edupunk is an ideology referring to teaching and learning practices that result from a do it yourself (DIY) attitude. Many instructional applications can be described as DIY education or Edupunk. It describes inventive teaching and inventive learning.

The term was first used on May 25, 2008 by Jim Groom in his blog, ^[1] and covered less than a week later in the Chronicle of Higher Education^[2]. Stephen Downes, a commentator on the field of online education, asserts that "the concept of Edupunk has totally caught wind, spreading through the blogosphere like wildfire". ^[3]

Edupunk has risen from an objection to the efforts of government and corporate interests in reframing and bundling emerging technologies into cookie-cutter products with pre-defined application -- somewhat similar to traditional punk ideologies.^{[citation needed]}

An example of Edupunk is the University of British Columbia's course "Murder, Madness, and Mayhem: Latin American Literature in Translation" experiment of creating articles on Wikipedia in spring 2008, "(having) one’s students as partners and peers" ^[4][5] A video clip illustrating an Edpunk approach produced by Tony Hirst at the Open University in the UK on 8 June 2008 illustrated how quickly the Eupunk concept has been adopted outside North America ^[6].

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