Intro PPT for students in an Open Pedagogy section of First-Year Seminar.

1. Introduction to OPEN:
for #OpenSem
Robin DeRosa
Your Trusty Prof
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2. DRIVE YOUR OWN BUS
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3. Start with OER: Gratis & Libre
Open Educational Resources
(OER) are teaching, learning,
and research resources that
reside in the public domain or
have been released under an
intellectual property license
that permits their free use and
repurposing by others. Open
educational resources include
full courses, course materials,
modules, textbooks, streaming
videos, tests, software, and
any other tools, materials, or
techniques used to support
access to knowledge.
Hewlett Foundation:
http://www.hewlett.org/programs/educati
on/open-educational-resources

4. Money Matters FO SHO
• Students spend on average $1,200 a year on textbooks
(U.S. Public Interest Research Group, survey of 156 campuses in 33 states)
• That’s equal to more than 12% of PSU in-state
tuition!
• Since 1978, college textbook costs have increased
812%. To put that in context, it means that textbook
prices have increased at 3.2 times the rate of
inflation. (Mark J Perry, AEIdeas. http://www.aei.org)
• Used/rentals/ebooks don’t solve the problem. Used
textbooks are undermined by new editions, rentals
create a system where we remove books from
learners (ugh!). Many ebooks have expiration dates
and print limits.
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5. This is not (only) about COST
We could save you money in tons
of easy ways:
– Increase all class sizes to 100+;
– Increase all teaching loads to 6-6;
– Close the library! Close the gym!
– Turn off the heat!
Cheaper isn’t the (only) point. Affordability
will help you get to the table…and stay here.
But that is only the beginning of how OER
can improve the learning process.

6. Resisting
“Students as
Consumers”
“Student-centered”
≠
“give the customer
what s/he wants.”
Photo: CC BY SA Magnus Manske

7. What do you WANT?
Here’s what my FYS class wants:

8. Open Pedagogy: YOU READY?
• Community and collaboration over content.
• Connects the university with the wider public.
• Treats education as a learner-developed process.
• Is skeptical of hoops, products, end-points, experts,
& gatekeeping.
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9. Required Texts
Learning Outcomes
Schedule of Work
Assignments
Grading Criteria
Let’s Rethink Our Syllabus…Together

10. Required Texts:
what does OER
enable?
• Add Components
• Revise & Reorder
• Customize
Autonomy, Creativity,
Critical Thinking

11. We Can Build Our Own Book

12. Learning Outcomes
What will your YOU bring to this class?
Where will you take it?
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13. TechnoRhizomatic: Building your PLN
Image by Daniel Lynds, @daniellynds

14. Schedule of Work
Function of CONTENT:
for you to learn to identify what matters to you.
The shelf-life of discipline-specific content is short.
The shelf-life of learner-centered inquiry is forever.
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15. Assignments: Help Design Them!
Connected, Not Disposable
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16. Your Experiences
DISPOSABLE
(consuming)
NONDISPOSABLE
(contributing)

17. Grading: Let’s Build a Process!
• Training peer graders like we train standardized test
graders (the @Chris_Friend model)
• Open p2p Badges (the BC Campus model)
• Grading by contract and crowdsourcing (the
@CathyNDavidson model)
• Grading by guided, frequent self-evaluation (the
@Jessifer model)
• Grades that emphasize effort/engagement (the
@davecormier model)
“Every study of peer review among students shows that students
perform at a higher level, and with more care, when they know they
are being evaluated by their peers than when they know only the
teacher and the TA will be grading” ~Cathy N. Davidson

18. Beginnings&Endings?
OnlyMIDDLES!
CCBYNCND Andrew Purdam flic.kr/p/3dCSg1

19. Going Open: A Student Guide
• Understand and ask for OER where appropriate
• Create portfolios that you own, understand,
maintain, license, and leverage
• Work with your profs to help create assignments
that are useful to you and to the field
• Develop your PLN a little bit each day
• Share your ideas and your work with the world
• Let this course serve as a springboard for your
continuing educational growth
• Let our classroom be a “real world” that you love.
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