LibGuides: SWIC Faculty guide to Open Educational Resources (OER): Open pedagogy

What is open pedagogy?

Open pedagogy is a practice which uses the 5R activity framework to design lessons and assessments that encourage students to improve or create course content. With open pedagogy projects, students are empowered to engage in information creation through non-disposable or renewable assignments. The student is both creator and contributor of assignments that are openly licensed, allowing the content to be shared, revised, and reused by future students in a course.

Simply put, open pedagogy involves creating assignments that involve students creating things that others can revise and reuse, that add value to the world beyond the course.

Text source: Adapted from "Austin Community College (ACC) Library Services Guide on Open Educational Resources" by Carrie Gits licensed under CC BY 4.0. Image source: "5 Rs of open pedagogy" by Rajiv Jhangiani, CC BY SA 4.0

What is Open Pedagogy?
In-depth blog post by David Wiley that explores open pedagogy

Books about OER and open pedagogy

Interactive open educational resources: A guide to finding, choosing, and using what's out there to transform college teaching. by John D. Shank
Publication Date: 2014
This book demonstrates the best tools, resources, and techniques for discovering, selecting, and integrating interactive open educational resources (OERs) into the teaching and learning process.
Open Educational Resources (OER) Pedagogy and Practices by Molly Y. Zhou (Editor)
ISBN: 9781799812005
Publication Date: 2019-11-29
Access to learning materials has been an issue within education that has had a profound impact on student outcomes and equality among students. New strategies for promoting more equal access to these materials began within institutions of higher learning and can be adapted at lower levels to facilitate equity within educational systems. Open Educational Resources (OER) Pedagogy and Practices is a comprehensive research publication that explores open access to educational materials and its impact on educational cost, educational equity, and poverty. Featuring a range of topics such as instructional design, pedagogy, and gamification, this book is essential for teachers, curriculum developers, instructional designers, principals, school boards, educational professionals, academicians, professors, administrators, educational policymakers, researchers, and educational agencies.

Examples of open pedagogy

Open Pedagogy Approaches: Faculty, Library, and Student Collaborations
Edited by Alexis Clifton and Kimberly Davies Hoffman. "[I]t offers a diverse compilation of OER and open pedagogy (OP) projects grounded in faculty, library, and student collaborations [...] provides ideas, practical tips, and inspiration for educators willing to explore the power of open, whether that involves a small innovation or a large-scale initiative." CC BY (Creative Commons Attribution) license.
Open Pedagogy Notebook
A resource for educators interested in learning more about Open Pedagogy. Includes open pedagogy assignments submitted by educators.
How do I teach in the open?
Examples of and issues about open pedagogy. From University of British Columbia.
Renewable assignments: Student work adding value to the world
Christina Hendricks, University of British Columbia. Outlines different types of renewable assignments, as well as examples.
Pedagogies of Care
Site with open resources for student-centered and adaptive strategies in higher ed. This site "offers practical and engaging advice about what "next" should look like across higher education, from sixteen current and forthcoming authors in the Teaching and Learning in Higher Education book series from West Virginia University Press." Includes videos, articles, guides, and more.
CORE 101 Open Pedagogy Project
Open pedagogy projects from Roger Williams University. Features student-designed and researched website projects about science issues, created by non-science majors. Example projects include Climate Change, DNA, Nutrition, Vaccines, and more. Projects are openly licensed with a CC-BY-NC-SA (Creative Commons - Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike) license.

Spectrum of Open Practice

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Image source: Spectrum of Open Practice, by Cindy Underhill, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0