The document discusses open pedagogy and effective learning design. It presents a matrix that compares open versus not open resources and approaches, and effective versus not effective learning design. Open resources and approaches involve using open educational resources (OER) and requiring students to publicly share their work. Effective learning design is described as authentic, flexible, learner-centered, and involving creative assignments that invite reflection and real-world learning with student choice. The document argues that combining open resources with effective learning design can provide greater academic freedom and opportunities for reflection and improvement compared to traditional closed approaches.

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 Open (Resources & Approaches): “teaching and learning practices that are possible when you adopt OER but are
impossible when you adopt traditionally copyrighted materials” [What is Open Pedagogy?:
http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/2975]. 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
 Effective Learning Design: authentic learning, flexible learning, learning-centred (vs. content or instructor-centred),
creative assignments that invite reflection, real-world learning and student choice
 Not Effective (or non-optimal) Learning Design: what we might think of as “traditional” or “teacher-centred” methods:
lecture-heavy, disposable assignments (http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/2975) assessment methods that focus on
exams, closed books, multiple choice, students demonstrate learning to instructors only, everyone does the same thing,
or limited/instructor-determined choices
Why bother? Wiley suggests that this next step in untangling Open Pedagogy is critical for faculty buy-in and adoption of open
practices, beyond the resource. Because “powerful examples of open pedagogy will give faculty [...] more academic
freedom than traditionally copyrighted materials” (BCcampus emphasis). And, we would argue, offer the kind of exciting and
powerful invitation that innovation and new ideas have always brought to Education: the invitation, through a new lens, to
reflect upon and improve our practice in support of students’ learning.

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Open (Resources & Approaches) Not Open (Resources & Approaches)
Effective
Learning
Design
Flying the airplane: innovative, learning-centred design,
supported by vast affordances of the internet
Examples:
 Murder, Madness and Mayhem 1
 Project Management for Instructional Designers,2
 Visit Wikimapia3 or OpenStreetMaps4 and find your
neighbourhood or the community in which you live. [...]
Is your understanding of your neighbourhood
represented on the map? If not, add volunteered
geographic information to the map to represent your
understanding of place. Change the lines, add points of
interest or of significance to your community on this
open source online mapping platforms.
Driving the airplane down the road: great learning design, using
“closed” resources, and conducted in “closed” spaces
Example
 Volunteer with an organization that advocates for, or go
to an event that is about, the experiences of Aboriginal
communities. Write a critical reflection that analyzes
the educational value of your experience, outlines the
major things you learned and proposes ways to
improve, contribute or share the experience. Submit to
the instructor.
Not
Effective
Learning
Design
Driving the airplane down the road: using OER, but under-
utilizing the potential of open
Examples
 Write research paper using Wikipedia as your sole
source
 open- book, multiple choice final exam in a course that
uses an Open Textbook
 Watch this openly licenced video and blog about the
Coral Polyp change
Pushing an old car down the road (instead of airplane):
teacher-centred methods, uninspiring (disposable) assignments
in a closed environment
Examples:
 Essay assignment that only the instructor reads and
grades: “Is [Willy Loman, Hamlet, etc] a tragic hero?”
 Exam question: Identify and discuss the significance of
the 100 years war. 4 pages, double spaced.
1
http://en.w ikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Murder_Madness_and_Mayhem
2
http://pm4id.org/
3
http://w ikimapia.org/
4
https://www.openstreetmap.org/