The document provides an overview of an open pedagogy project conducted with an honors intercultural communication class. Students worked in groups to create open educational resources focused on specific UN Sustainable Development Goals. Each student's project was published under a Creative Commons license and made publicly available through an online collection. The goal was for students to apply communication skills while generating tangible teaching resources on important global topics. Students were encouraged to design creative projects reflecting their interests and learning styles. The result was a diverse set of openly licensed student works addressing various sustainability issues.

1. A Peek at Open
Pedagogy
Kari Frisch
Central Lakes College (CLC)
Kari.Frisch@clcmn.edu

2. OUTLINE FOR OUR TIME TOGETHER
I. Brief Intro to Open Pedagogy- “Peek”
A. History
B. David Wiley and 5 R’s of Open Content
C. Creative Commons Licensing
D. Traditional vs Open Approach
II. Share the Honors Intercultural Communication Open Pedagogy Project from Spring 2021
A. Background and Basics of Project
B. Snapshot of Overall Results
C. Explore the MERLOT Honors Project Website Site*: hear from the students and see some of their
work
III. Hopefully some Q & A
* Please note that the link to the MERLOT website is available for further exploration on your own and I
encourage you to do so.

3. Quick Peek about me and CLC
• Communication Instructor
and eLearning Coordinator
• One of the first to teach an
online class at CLC
• Teaching Full-Time since 2001
• Most of that, also completely
online (asynchronously)

4. Quick Peek about me and CLC
• Comprehensive Community
and Technical College
• Multi-campus college (I’m
on Brainerd campus)
• Part of Minnesota State
System
• Serve about 5,500
students

5. Quick Peek about Open Pedagogy
• 1979 Claude Paquette referenced the term (time-stamping
it as 10+ years)
• 2013 David Wiley’s rewrote and “revisioned” the term in
his blog to how we most often reference it today
• Stemmed from Open Educational Resources (OER) work
• Reflection of his 4 (now 5) R’s of Open Content
Source: Scott Curtis, OER Lead, UMKC Libraries https://tinyurl.com/3c4h24nd

6. David Wiley’s 5 R’s of Open Content
• Reuse – the right to use the content in a wide range of ways (e.g., in a class,
in a study group, on a website, in a video)
• Revise – the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself (e.g.,
translate the content into another language)
• Remix – the right to combine the original or revised content with other open
content to create something new (e.g., incorporate the content into a mashup)
• Redistribute – the right to share copies of the original content, your
revisions, or your remixes with others (e.g., give a copy of the content to a
friend)
• Retain – the right to make, own, and control copies of the content (e.g.,
download, own, store, and manage)
Revised order as permitted by
https://creativecommons.org/about/cclicenses/

7. Shaddim; original CC license symbols by Creative Commons, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Free Cultural Works Open Content
All Rights Reserved Most Restricted

8. CreativeCommons.Org

9. That’s Open Content.
What’s Open Pedagogy?

10. Breaking it Down
• OPEN
• Defined by UNESCO as
“educational materials that are
in the public domain or that are
introduced with an open license”
• “Open” often mistaken for just
meaning free
• Actually “free with perpetual
permission”
• PEDAGOGY
• Practice and/or method of
teaching
• How we teach, not what we
teach
• Sometimes called “Open
Educational Practices” (OEP)
• Love that “practice” is a noun
and a verb. Cool, right?
Sources: https://en.unesco.org/themes/building-knowledge-societies/oer and https://openedreader.org/chapter/open-content/

11. Traditional versus Open Approach
Traditional Approach
• Teacher decides
• Single learning style
• Information stays within
the classroom
• Disposable Assignment
(Linear & Finite)
Open Pedagogy Approach
• Student decides
• Flexible learning styles
• Information available
outside of the classroom
• Reusable (Dynamic &
Infinite)

12. Created at wordcloud.com
POWERFUL!
TEACHING 1 =
LEARNING∞

13. We all can do that!
No matter the grade or
level 

14. Peek at the Honor’s
Open Pedagogy Project
Exploring UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
Honors Intercultural Communication Class
Spring 2021

15. Collaboration:
• My online asynchronous Honors Intercultural
Communication class (12 students)
• CLC colleague, Loribeth Larsen, and her
synchronous Global Studies class (started with 8
students)
• Jointly chose the United Nations Sustainable
Development Goals (17 total SDGs) prior to
school year starting
• Her class projects were going to focus on goals 1-
8 with 1 “floater”
• My class was going to focus on goals 9-17 and
had 1 “floater”
• Worked separately, then pulled it all together in a
joint showcase at the end of the semester

16. My Class Project
• Approach: Backwards Design for timeline
and project development (ultimate goal and
timeframe set first then work backwards)
• Timeframe: 2/3 of the semester
(asynchronous)
• Workload: Extra, on top of everything else
the Standard IC Class was doing
• Process: “Honors Steps” (broken up and not
directly “graded”)

17. Timeframe Included:
• Week 1 Learning Style Assessment (all
students, every class)
• Intro to UN SDGs, Open Pedagogy,
and Honors Project
• Survey to rank SDG preferences 1-3 &
SDG assigning
• Student brainstorm of activities
• Review of my list of possibilities by
Learning Style type and samples by
SDG number
• Pre-project
proposal/revisions/contract
• 3 Progress Reports
• Peer2Peer Evaluation
• My Evaluation
• Final Revisions
• Reflection
• CC lessons and licensing
• Final student video summaries
• Kari compiling everything into
Merlot site
• Final Collective Showcase

18. GOAL: To design, develop, and publish open pedagogy projects based around the
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
• The purpose not only was to learn more about the SDGs and apply individual intercultural
communication skills, but also to generate tangible open teaching & learning resources.
• To this end, all of the class learning objects created from the HIC class were collected and
published under a Creative Commons attribution by a non-commercial license and made
available to the public through a public host site (Merlot collection using “content
builder”).
• Each student’s work is available through a separate webpage devoted to their project and
linked back to a class landing page.
• Students were encouraged to think creatively and to design projects that reflected their
learning strengths/styles, interests, skills, and academic goals.
• The end result? The projects were as wildly eclectic as the students.

21. Time to take a closer look!

22. • This project was designed for an Honors-level College course.
• Open pedagogy projects or assignments can be done at any level.
• There’s numerous resources and tips available on online. Take a peek!
• Remember, open pedagogy is a PRACTICE—the noun and the verb. 