Presentation for Austin Community College

1. Sustainable
Assignments:
How Open Pedagogy
Can Transform Teaching
@actualham

2. Stuff We’ll Get To
• What is
Open Pedagogy?
• What’s an
open license?
• What is OER?
• What’s a
disposable assignment?
• What’s a
sustainable assignment?
• Why should we care?
• How can I do this?
• Do you know how busy I am?

3. My Story

4. “Beginnings
to
1800”
AMERICA

5. Collaboratively Built:
Alums, Incoming Students, Professor

6. CreativeCommons
Reuse
Retain
Redistribute
Revise
Remix

7. Constantly
Evolving:
Students & Teachers
Adding, Improving,
Sharing

8. MultimediaContributions

9. Interactive and Public Annotation

10. An Open
“Textbook”
Can Be:
• Interactive
• Collaborative
• Dialogic
• Dynamic
• Empowering
• Contributory
• Current
• Accessible
• Multimedia
• Public
• (Free)

11. Rebus, Funded by Hewlett Foundation
Managing Editor Tim Robbins
@20 additional academic contributors so far

12. OER
OpenStax Books

13. Book Costs Move Off the Charts
https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/textbooks.jpg

14. • 56% of students pay
more than
$300 per semester &
20% of students pay
more than
$500 per semester
(FL Virtual Campus 2016)
• Students worry more about
paying for books
than they worry about
paying for college. (NEEBO)

16. • A generation ago, public colleges/unis got an average
of 75% of budget from state. Today, it's about 50%.
• 23% of low-income sophomores worked a job
between the hours of 10pm-8am.
• Survey at 10 community colleges (4312 students
responding): 1 in 5 students was hungry, 13% were
homeless.
• 50-80% of sticker price comes from non-tuition costs.
• More than 3 in 4 students attend colleges within 50
miles of their homes. Esp. true for low-income and
minority students.
• The average net price for a year at community college
equals 40% of a low-income family's annual income.
• A year at public university ranges from 16-25% of a
middle-class family's annual income.
• 60% of Americans ages 25-64 don't have a college
credential, but 22% of them earned credits trying to
get one.

17. The REAL
Cost of College
• (Tuition)
• Transportation
• Child Care
• Food & Shelter
• Opportunity
Costs
• COURSE
MATERIALS

18. In which domains does your teaching engage?

19. Go for the low-hanging fruit.
Sarah Prescott
2016 USNH
Open Education Ambassador

20. • Review an Open Textbook
• Adopt an Open Textbook
• Remix an Open Textbook
• Revise an Open Textbook
• Move multiple sections
to an Open Textbook

21. • Review an Open Textbook
• Adopt an Open Textbook
• Remix an Open Textbook
• Revise an Open Textbook
• Move multiple sections
to an Open Textbook

22. Openly license your:
• Syllabus
• Handouts
• Assignments
• Lectures
• Videos
Level up! Attach metadata!
Use the Accessibility Toolkit!

23. Openly license your:
• Syllabus
• Handouts
• Assignments
• Lectures
• Videos
Level up! Attach metadata!
Use the Accessibility Toolkit!

24. Co-create a course
textbook with
students.
Mix your stuff,
their stuff,
OERs.

25. Co-Creation: OERs, Knowledge, Higher Ed
Interdisciplinary Studies:
A Connected Learning Approach
Opensem: A Student-Generated
Handbook for the First Year of College

26. Co-create a course
textbook with
students.
Mix your stuff,
their stuff,
OERs.

27. I don’t want to join a
movement focused
on replacing crappy
expensive textbooks
with crappy free
textbooks.

28. For me,
OPEN is about
access to knowledge
and
access to knowledge
creation

29. In which domains does your teaching engage?

31. Domain of One’s Own
• Drag ’n Drop → Design
• Digital consumer → Digital
creator
• Data mining → Data control
• Audience of 1 → Public impact
• Web as broadcast station →
Web as open lab
• Work attached to course →
Work attached to student
• ePortfolio → ePort
http://kayleighbennett.com/

32. Twitter

33. IDS taught me to be responsible for my learning and growth. You
learn to expand your returns. We do not post our “homework”
to a hidden, school controlled website. We share our work for all
of the world to see. This idea of owning your own domain allows
you to be confident in your work and take responsibility for
what you are learning, how you make connections in the world,
and how you share your knowledge. To me, this style of learning
and sharing is a good idea for Interdisciplinary Studies and all
other majors. Academic settings need to work on sharing each
other’s work, and being engaged in the world outside of
classroom walls.
madisongroberge.plymouthcreate.net
from I’m not graduating
“on time” & that is OK.

34. These ePorts are a way for us to really explain the type
of future we want to lead. They express who we are,
how we feel, how we learn and SO much more.
Personally, I have found my ePort to be a way to cope
with my illness. Before this school year, I was so lost,
sad, angry and essentially broken. I was given six
months to live and felt okay, why should I even try to
further my life if it’s just going to end. Well, here I am,
almost TWO years later doing great things with both
my education and my life.
Tiffanyrichards.plymouthcreate.net
from
IDS REALIZES $H!T HAPPENS!

35. Twitter was a way for us to expand our knowledge and
let our voices be heard all throughout the country. We
share our personal goals and share how we feel about
certain issues going on in the world. We follow people
who surround the field we are pursuing. I constantly
have TweetDeck open on my laptop now, go figure. For
example, I follow @PatientsRising. They advocate the
importance of access to vital therapies and services for
patients facing life-altering diseases. Get this, they
followed me BACK. I just think it is so cool how PLN’s
can build yourself a name. Tiffanyrichards.plymouthcreate.net
from
IDS REALIZES $H!T HAPPENS!

36. FRUIT LEVEL
PAYOFF PEAR

37. Access to Knowledge (OER) & Access to Knowledge Creation (Open Pedagogy)

38. Digital redlining &
the digital divide
are real and insidious.
Open is not
the opposite of private.
EdTech is
selling something.
Open is
a process,
not a panacea.

39. Sustainable
Assignments
• Open gates to learning
• Center access in their design
• Connect learners to their
communities of practice
• Thrive in learner-designed
architectures
• Leverage the open license
• Enable learner contributions to
the knowledge commons
• Approach tools and
technologies critically, with a
focus on privacy
• Build toward a publics-oriented
vision for Higher Education

40. • Increase ACCESS to Higher Ed
• Engage our students with their
communities of practice
• Enable learners to CONTRIBUTE
to knowledge commons
• Build a collaborative TX system
Sustainable Assignments:
putting the PUBLIC back in public Higher Ed
Public

41. Q&A
After the break:
examples
tools
tweet thoughts, questions, ideas
@actualham