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Open Educational Resources (OER), Information for Faculty

Based on content from Northern Arizona University with permission from Brittany Blanchard, Research Programs Librarian

Open Pedagogy

Definition of open pedagogy

According to Abbey K. Elder, author of the OER Starter Kit  (CC Attribution 4.0), open pedagogy is "The set of pedagogical practices that include engaging students in content creation and making learning accessible..."

 

BCCampus, a repository and advocate for OER, explains open pedagogy this way, "When you use open pedagogy in your classroom, you are inviting your students to be part of the teaching process, participating in the co-creation of knowledge." (CC Attribution 4.0)

 

David Wiley, Chief Academic Officer of Lumen Learning explicitly links OP to OERs by coining the phrase "OER-Enabled Pedagogy." in his blog in 2017. 

  1. We learn by the things we do.
  2. Copyright restricts what we are permitted to do.
  3. Consequently, copyright restricts the ways we are permitted to learn.
  4. Open removes these restrictions, permitting us to do new things.
  5. Consequently, open permits us to learn in new ways.

Students as producers, creators. The definition of "open pedagogy"

Eight Attributes of Open Education Practice (OEP)

 

Eight attributes of open pedagogy practices

Both charts from: Hegarty, B. (2015). Attributes of Open Pedagogy: A Model for Using Open Educational Resources. EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY, 4. (may be subject to copyright)

Assignment Examples from the Open Pedagogy Notebook

OER-Enabled Pedagogy from Open Education Group.

Open Pedagogy: Examples of Class Activities from You're the Teacher

Pressbooks Directory has a collection of "student-led OERs"

Teach with Wikipedia WikiEdu offers virtual courses to faculty to help them guide their students to revise, update and add inclusivity to the public knowledge on Wikpedia.

Tijerina, T. (ed.) Pedagogy Opened.  University of North Georgia Press, 2024.

"In this first volume of Pedagogy Opened, seven author teams explore and share their work with open pedagogy in various ways, including through research, practice, and autoethnographic reflection."

West, Quill. "Open Pedagogy Assignment Compilation." 

Bates, Tony., Chaapter 11.4 "What is Open Pedagogy?"

 

Clifton, A. & Hoffman K.D. Open Pedagogy Approaches: Faculty, Library and Student Collaborations 

 

Clinton-Lisell, V. (2021). Open Pedagogy: A Systematic Review of Empirical FindingsJournal of Learning for Development 8(2), 255-268.

 

DeRosa R. & Robison S. 2017. From OER to Open Pedagogy: Harnessing the Power of Open. In: Jhangiani R. & 
Biswas-Diener, R (eds.), Open. London: Ubiquity Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/bbc.i 

 

Jhangiani. R.S. (Feb. 2017). "Ditching the “Disposable Assignment” in Favor of Open Pedagogy." 

 

Mays, Elizabeth (Ed.) A Guide to Making Open Textbooks with Students.  Section II, Project Ideas & Case Studies

 

Open Faculty Patchbook and the Open Learner Patchbook is a blog/patch book about how teachers teach and students learn in higher education.

 

Open Pedagogy Notebook is probably the one "go to" web site to learn about and see examples of OP projects and assignments. (Aug. 2023 note:  OP Notebook is now referring to OP Portal from the Open Education Network.  See next entry.)
 

Open Pedagogy Portal 

The goal of the Open Pedagogy Portal is to feature case studies, student work product, and teaching and learning resources related to and in support of open pedagogy.  This site includes case studies of renewable assignments from specific disciplines and courses, as well as the student work product that resulted from them (if available and openly licensed). Additionally, there are teaching and learning resources such as infographics, professional development materials, and training materials to help you grow your work with open pedagogy.  Get some ideas or consider adding your ideas to the portal.
 

Witt, Alan, "Towards a Working Definition of Open Pedagogy" (2020). Milne Library Faculty/Staff Works. 8.

Cooney, C. (2017). What Impacts do OER Have on Students? Students Share Their Experiences with a Health Psychology OER at New York City  College of Technology. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning18(4). https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v18i4.3111
 

Dean, Miranda. (April 2017) "What an Open Pedagogy Class Taught Me about Myself.
 

Moss, Jen. (n.d.) "Non-Disposable Assignments and Why You Should Use Them."  Open Education @ University of Alaska - Fairbanks.
 

What Open Education Taught Me
 

Witman, Jamie. (2023). The Open Pedagogy Student Toolkit.
        This short OER handbook helps students understand open pedagogy and its benefits.  Student's rights and responsibilities as content creators are also discussed.