Open Pedagogy

1. Open
Pedagogy
• Amanda Coolidge and Mary Burgess
• June 4, 2015
@bccampus @acoolidge
@maryeburgess

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3. Agenda
• What is Open Pedagogy? Iterating Toward a Definition…
• Our Matrix (v 1.0)
• What examples can you think of?
Session Outcome
• By the end of this session, you will know (at least) one definition of
Open Pedagogy and some examples of what it looks like in
practice

4. What is Open?
“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 re-purposing by
others.”
http://www.hewlett.org/programs/education-
program/open-educational-resources
• The right to make, own and control copies of the
contentRetain
• The right to use the content in a wide range of waysReuse
• The right to adapt, adjust, or modify the content
itselfRevise
• The right to combine the original or revised content
with other open content to create something newRemix
• The right to share copies of the original content,
your revisions, or your remixes with othersRedistribute

5. What is Pedagogy?

6. Open Educational Practices
Open Scholarship/Research PracticesOpen Pedagogy/Teaching Practices
Pre-register
Open
Materials
Open Stat
S/W
Open Peer
Review
Open
Publication
Open Course
Development
Open
Materials
Open
Assignments
Open
Discussions,
Activities
Open Course
Evaluation?

7. What is Open Pedagogy?
Iterating Toward a Definition…
David Wiley has said Open Pedagogy includes:
• Teaching and Learning Practices that are possible when you adopt OER
but are impossible when you adopt traditionally copyrighted materials
• Use of OER
• Students work in the open: create and share their work
• The Challenge: … “ we need at least 15 – 20 more examples, before we
can have a substantive conversation about open pedagogy”

8. What is Open Pedagogy?
At it’s core, the question of open
pedagogy is “what can I do in the
context of open that I couldn’t do
before?”
– from David Wiley in his blog post: Evolving Open Pedagogy.

9. How do WE, as educators,
best engage our students
in DEEPER learning?

10. Function of CONTENT:
for students to learn to identify what matters to them.
The shelf-life of discipline-specific content is short.
The shelf-life of learner-centered inquiry is forever.
CC BY Gayle Nicholson flic.kr/p/5wuqSd

11. Matrix
The Matrix: a tool for
generating examples…
Open
(Resources & Approaches)
Not Open
(Resources & Approaches)
Learning Centered Design *1* 3
Teaching Centered Design 2 4

12. Matrix
The Matrix: a tool for
generating examples…
Open
(Resources & Approaches)
practices that are possible when adopting
OER but are impossible when you adopt
traditionally copyrighted materials”. 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
Learning Centered Design
authentic, flexible, learning-centred (vs.
content or instructor-centred), creative
assignments that invite reflection, real-
world learning, student choice
*1* 3
Teaching Centered Design
what we might describe of as “teacher-
centred” methods: lecture-heavy,
“disposable” assignments , assessment
focused on exams, multiple choice, students
demonstrate learning to instructors only,
everyone does the same thing, or
limited/instructor-determined choices
2 4

13. Matrix
The Matrix: a tool for
generating examples…
Open
(Resources & Approaches)
practices that are possible when adopting
OER but are impossible when you adopt
traditionally copyrighted materials”. 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
Learning Centered Design
authentic, flexible, learning-centred (vs.
content or instructor-centred), creative
assignments that invite reflection, real-
world learning, student choice
*1*
Examples of open pedagogy:
innovative, learning-centred
design, supported by
affordances of the internet
3
Examples of great learning
design, with “closed”
resources, conducted in
“closed” spaces
Teaching Centered Design
“traditional”: lecture-heavy, “disposable”
assignments , assessment focused on
exams, multiple choice, students
demonstrate learning to instructors only,
everyone does the same thing, or
limited/instructor-determined choices
2
Examples that use OER, but
under-utilize potential of
Open
4
Examples of “teacher-
centred” methods,
disposable assignments in a
closed environment

14. Matrix
The Matrix: a tool for
generating examples…
Open
(Resources & Approaches)
practices that are possible when adopting
OER but are impossible when you adopt
traditionally copyrighted materials”. 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
Learning Centered Design
authentic, flexible, learning-centred (vs.
content or instructor-centred), creative
assignments that invite reflection, real-
world learning, student choice
*1*
• Murder, Madness & Mayhem
(students edit wikipedia
entries to “featured”
status”)
3
• student-led real-world
research or service
projects that include
critical reflection and
connections made to course
concepts and (not open)
course resources
Teaching Centered Design
“traditional” methods: lecture-heavy,
“disposable” assignments , assessment
focused on exams, multiple choice, students
demonstrate learning to instructors only,
everyone does the same thing, or
limited/instructor-determined choices
2
• Open-book, multiple choice
final exam in a course
that uses an open text
4
• Essay that only the
teacher reads/grades: Is
[Willy Loman, Hamlet, etc)
a tragic hero?

15. Thank You…
Questions?
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