Open Pedagogy• Amanda Coolidge and Mary Burgess• June 4, 2015

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Agenda

• What is Open Pedagogy? Iterating Toward a Definition…

• Our Matrix (v 1.0)

• What examples can you think of?

Session Outcome

• By the end of this session, you will know (at least) one definition of

Open Pedagogy and some examples of what it looks like in

practice

What is Open?

“OER are teaching,

learning, and research

resources that reside in the

public domain or have been

released under an

intellectual property license

that permits their free use

and re-purposing by

others.”

http://www.hewlett.org/programs/education-

program/open-educational-resources

What is Pedagogy?

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Open Educational Practices

Open Scholarship/Research PracticesOpen Pedagogy/Teaching Practices

Pre-register

Open Materials

Open Stat S/W

Open Peer Review

Open Publication

Open Course Development

Open Materials

Open Assignments

Open Discussions,

Activities

Open Course Evaluation?

What is Open Pedagogy?

Iterating Toward a Definition…

David Wiley has said Open Pedagogy includes:

• Teaching and Learning Practices that are possible when you adopt OER

but are impossible when you adopt traditionally copyrighted materials• Use of OER• Students work in the open: create and share their work

• The Challenge: … “ we need at least 15 – 20 more examples, before we

can have a substantive conversation about open pedagogy”

What is Open Pedagogy?

At it’s core, the question of open pedagogy is “what can I do in the context of open that I couldn’t do before?”

– from David Wiley in his blog post: Evolving Open Pedagogy.

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How do WE, as educators, best engage our students

in DEEPER learning?

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Function of CONTENT: for students to learn to identify what matters to them.

The shelf-life of discipline-specific content is short. The shelf-life of learner-centered inquiry is forever.

CC BY Gayle Nicholson flic.kr/p/5wuqSd

Matrix

The Matrix: a tool for generating examples…

Open (Resources & Approaches)

Not Open (Resources & Approaches)

Learning Centered Design *1* 3

Teaching Centered Design 2 4

Matrix

The Matrix: a tool for generating examples…

Open (Resources & Approaches)practices that are possible when adopting OER but are impossible when you adopt traditionally copyrighted materials”. Use of OER, requirement for students to work out in the open: create and share their work

Not Open (Resources & Approaches)what we might think of as “traditional” - costly “closed” textbooks, learning community activity limited to the f2f classroom or behind an LMS firewall

Learning Centered Designauthentic, flexible, learning-centred (vs. content or instructor-centred), creative assignments that invite reflection, real-world learning, student choice

*1* 3

Teaching Centered Designwhat we might describe of as “teacher-centred” methods: lecture-heavy, “disposable” assignments , assessment focused on exams, multiple choice, students demonstrate learning to instructors only, everyone does the same thing, or limited/instructor-determined choices

2 4

Matrix

The Matrix: a tool for generating examples…

Open (Resources & Approaches)practices that are possible when adopting OER but are impossible when you adopt traditionally copyrighted materials”. Use of OER, requirement for students to work out in the open: create and share their work

Not Open (Resources & Approaches)what we might think of as “traditional” - costly “closed” textbooks, learning community activity limited to the f2f classroom or behind an LMS firewall

Learning Centered Designauthentic, flexible, learning-centred (vs. content or instructor-centred), creative assignments that invite reflection, real-world learning, student choice

*1*Examples of open pedagogy: innovative, learning-centred design, supported by affordances of the internet

3Examples of great learning design, with “closed” resources, conducted in “closed” spaces

Teaching Centered Design“traditional”: lecture-heavy, “disposable” assignments , assessment focused on exams, multiple choice, students demonstrate learning to instructors only, everyone does the same thing, or limited/instructor-determined choices

2Examples that use OER, but under-utilize potential of Open

4Examples of “teacher-centred” methods, disposable assignments in a closed environment

Matrix

The Matrix: a tool for generating examples…

Open (Resources & Approaches)practices that are possible when adopting OER but are impossible when you adopt traditionally copyrighted materials”. Use of OER, requirement for students to work out in the open: create and share their work

Not Open (Resources & Approaches)what we might think of as “traditional” - costly “closed” textbooks, learning community activity limited to the f2f classroom or behind an LMS firewall

Learning Centered Design authentic, flexible, learning-centred (vs. content or instructor-centred), creative assignments that invite reflection, real-world learning, student choice

*1*• Murder, Madness & Mayhem

(students edit wikipedia entries to “featured” status”)

3• student-led real-world

research or service projects that include critical reflection and connections made to course concepts and (not open) course resources

Teaching Centered Design“traditional” methods: lecture-heavy, “disposable” assignments , assessment focused on exams, multiple choice, students demonstrate learning to instructors only, everyone does the same thing, or limited/instructor-determined choices

2• Open-book, multiple choice

final exam in a course that uses an open text

4• Essay that only the

teacher reads/grades: Is [Willy Loman, Hamlet, etc) a tragic hero?

Thank You…Questions?

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