The document discusses the importance of integrating open practices into education to enhance accessibility and collaboration. It highlights the concept of open pedagogy, which involves students actively participating in the creation and curation of course materials, contrasted with traditional teaching methods. Examples are provided to illustrate how open practices can enrich the learning experience and contribute to social justice.

1. From Open Data to Open Pedagogy:
An Introduction to Integrating Open Practices
into the Classroom
Michelle Reed, Open Education Librarian
Peace Ossom Williamson, Director of Research Data Services
Open Education Week | UTA Libraries | 3.30.17

2. Openness is the only means of doing education. If there
is no sharing, there is no education. Successful educators
share most thoroughly with the most students.
- David Wiley
“Be a champion of a cause and don't give up.”
- TJ Bliss
“Research provides the foundation of modern society. Research leads to
breakthroughs, and communicating the results of research is what allows us to
turn breakthroughs into better lives—to provide new treatments for disease, to
implement solutions for challenges like global warming, and to build entire
industries around what were once just ideas. However, our current system for
communicating research is crippled by a centuries old model that hasn’t been
updated to take advantage of 21st century technology.”
- Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
“Isn’t it amazing that
what serves social justice
also serves effective pedagogy
and is empirically supported?”
- Rajiv Jhangiani

3. What is Open?
Freeimages.com (lyn belisle)

4. The 5 Rs of Open
1. Retain
2. Reuse
3. Revise
4. Remix
5. Redistribute

6. Adopting Open Practices
Freeimages.com (Joanie Cahill)

9. Open Pedagogy
Freeimages.com (Joanie Cahill)

10. Dump the Disposable Assignment
Freeimages.com (Joe Zlomek)

11. Open Textbooks, Open Pedagogy
“I’ve spent some time talking about open pedagogy at several universities this Spring, and in each of those
presentations and workshops, I have usually mentioned The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature, an OER
anthology that my students and I produced last year for an American literature survey course I taught. When I talk
about the anthology, it’s usually to make a point about open pedagogy. I began the project with the simple desire to
save my students about $85 US, which is how much they were (ostensibly) paying for the Heath Anthology of
American Literature Volume A. Most of the actual texts in the Heath were a public domain texts, freely available and
not under any copyright
restrictions. As the Heath
produced new editions (of
literature from roughly 1400-
1800!), forcing students to buy
new textbooks or be irritatingly
out of sync with page numbers,
and as students turned to rental
markets that necessitated them
giving their books back at the end
of the semester, I began to look in
earnest for an alternative.”
- Robin DeRosa

12. How is Open Different?
Current: Faculty provides core readings for the course.
New: Students examine why core readings are core – what role did/do
they play in the discipline. They develop a bibliography that explains that
role, relating it to current work in the field. Subsequent classes update the
bibliography, adding perspective to the original readings, adding readings
they believe are now core and describing why for the next group of
students

13. How is Open Different?
Current: Students research a current issue related to a northwestern Native
American tribe
New: Students determine the gaps in the commonly available literature
and interview members of a tribe in order to add native voice to the
available perspectives. The bibliography is published in an open format.
Students discuss what gets published, why, and whose voice is left out of
“published” conversations.

14. For Additional Ideas…
Open Pedagogy Library
curated by the Open Education Group:
http://openedgroup.org/openpedagogy

15. Let’s Play
http://libguides.uta.edu/oe-data

17. Platforms for Sharing
• Humanities Commons
• Open Science Framework
• WordPress
• Authorea
• Domain of One’s Own
• Wikipedia

18. Review
• Retrieve open data from College Scorecard
• Reproduce student debt calculations from “Student Debt
and the Class of 2011” (The Institute for College Access
and Success, October 2012)
• Visualize data using Tableau Public
• Share openly using Creative Commons licensing

19. Thank You
http://library.uta.edu/scholcomm
Michelle Reed
michelle.reed@uta.edu
Peace Ossom Williamson
peace@uta.edu