This document summarizes key aspects of open pedagogy based on a presentation by Dr. Karen Cangialosi. It discusses how open pedagogy empowers students by giving them agency in their learning through creating and sharing knowledge. Open pedagogy approaches include having students write syllabi, determine assignments, and openly license their work. Examples provided demonstrate how open pedagogy can address real-world issues through open data analysis and creating open educational resources like Wikipedia articles and online repair manuals. The document advocates for shifting away from standardized assessments that increase student anxiety to empower students to transform the world through collaborative and contributory learning experiences.

1. Open
Pedagogy
for a
Sustainable
Future
Dr. Karen Cangialosi
Dept of Biology
Keene State College
Keene, NH USA
@karencang
CC 0 Public Domain

2. 25th Annual Indian Nations and Tribes Legislative
Day at Arizona State Capitol
Copied from: O’odham Action News Website
https://oan.srpmic-nsn.gov/stories/story03.asp

4. Study of 86,000 students at 123
two and four year institutions across
the U.S. April 2019
• Food Insecure: 45%
• Housing Insecure: 56%
• Homeless: 17%

5. Image: The Economist
From The Economist

7. “The OER movement has
saved students, parents,
schools and governments at
least $1 billion dollars.”
• U.S. & Canada Higher Ed:
$921,783,169
• U.S. & Canada K-12:
$45,051,066
• International: $38,500,000
• Total: $1,005,334,235
Data from SPARCopen.org, 2018
OER

8. Synthesizes results from 36 studies
involving 121,168 students. Students
achieve the same or better learning
outcomes when using OER.

9. OpenStax
LibreTexts

10. • Openly licensed teaching materials:
test banks, study guides, lesson
plans, labs, etc
• Open websites
• Open Google Docs
• Open Access published articles
• Open Datasets
• Open Lab notebooks and Methods
repositories
• Open Videos
• Open Lab Simulations
• Open Source software/tools
• and more…
Popsicles by Colored Pencil Magazine [CC BY 2.0]
OER is not just textbooks

11. Creative Commons
licenses explained
©Foter (adapted by
Jisc) via Foter blog
CC BY-SA
The Open
License
Not just “free”,
but Open.

12. • Reuse
• Revise
• Remix
• Redistribute
• Retain
FREE as in Freedom (the 5 R’s)

13. Open Educational Resources by Ron Mader [CC BY 2.0]
• Digital
• Multimedia
• Downloadable
• Adaptable
• Current
• Public
• Openly Licensed
• Free
OER

15. Open Pedagogy
is about
Access and Agency
Students
Design
Learning
Structures
Knowledge
Knowledge
Creation
Knowledge
Sharing
Community
Connections &
Collaboration
food,
housing, gas,
laptops,
captions,
safety, ETC.

16. Modified from original
image by Craig Froehle
Beyond Equity
Open Pedagogy?OER

17. Adoption and Impact of OER in the Global South. Editor(s): Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams and Patricia B. Arinto (2017)

18. Students as knowledge creators, and as agents
that can choose how to license their work
• DoOO – student website creation
• Open Google Docs
• Open Videos
• Case studies
• Open Labs, simulations, animations
• Open Source software/tools
• Open Access published articles
• Open Datasets
• Open Lab notebooks, Methods
repositories
• Social media posts
• Public web annotations
• Textbooks (e.g., pressbooks)
• Ancillary materials: test banks, etc.
Open Pedagogy
Lollipops by Andrew Malone [CC BY 2.0]

19. Students can work with faculty to:
• Create Content
• Write the syllabus
• Write the attendance policy
• Create learning outcomes
• Determine what goes on during class
• Design assignments
• Decide what work they want to make public
or openly license
• Determine how they will be graded
Trust, Power, and Agency
CC 0

20. Domain of
One’s Own
“Contribute to, not just consume from, the knowledge commons”
-Robin DeRosa

21. Audience Beyond the Professor
Interactive – Collaborative – Contributory – Dynamic – Participatory – Empowering

22. • Students create, remix and
openly license work that is
shared with others.
• Student work lives on past the
end of the semester (if they
want it to).
Non-Disposable Assignments

23. Student-Created OER

24. 2017 class
• Students create
content on their
domain spaces
2019 class
• Add content from
domain spaces
• Curate and edit
content from
2017 & 2019;
create pressbook
2017 Alumni
• Further edit
Pressbook Content
• Add new content
• Write the intro, title
• Reorganize chapters
Learning that defies Space and Time

25. Not just Pressbooks… A SPLOT built by Alan Levine

26. https://edu.ifixit.com
Students writing
Open Repair Manuals

27. Web Annotation for Community & Collaboration

28. Twitter
Linked-In
#KSCBio
Social Media for connecting outside of the classroom

30. Students write about local contamination sites and potential
consequences to humans and wildlife
#SciComm
Open Pedagogy as Public Service

31. Students Using
Open Data to
Address Critical
Questions
Open Pedagogy

32. Who gets counted in our
datasets? Who is missing?
Datafication: Is data-driven
decision making benefitting the
public or amplifying inequities?
Surveillance Capitalism and the
Data Economy: How is our data
used? Who has control over our
data? Who is profiting?
Data.world

33. From Data Feminism, D’Ignazio and Klein, MIT Press Open
“What if we imagined
teaching data as a
place to start creating
the connected,
collective, caring
world that we want
to see?”
-Catherine D’Ignazio and
Lauren Klein
https://bookbook.pubpub.org/data-feminism

34. Creating/Editing Wikipedia
Wiki Education Foundation

36. #Envision2030 at Keene State: Wiki Scholars with Wiki Education

37. “Our students
are not just
going on the
web, they are
constructing it.”
-Martha Burtis
"This is How The Web is Made“ by cogdogblog
https://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/16248316055
[CC BY 2.0]

38. “Open is a process, not a panacea”
-Robin DeRosa

39. Web Literacy
Digital Fluency
Digital Identity
Digital Citizenship
Student Privacy

40. “Anxiety" by ASweeneyPhoto CC (BY-NC)
More than 60% of college students (in a study of 88,000)
said they had experienced “overwhelming anxiety” in the
past year, according to a 2018 report from the American
College Health Association.
Over 40% said they felt so depressed they had difficulty
functioning.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/education/learning/mental-
health-counseling-on-campus.html
In 1985, 18% of college-bound seniors said they “frequently” felt
“overwhelmed by all I had to do” during senior year of high school.
That number had increased to 41% by 2016.
Source: https://willowresearch.com/gen-z/

41. An atmosphere that places greater value on
“achievement” than on learning
Standardized tests and assessments that suck the
life out of learning
Surveillance systems that track, monitor, punish,
and insist on compliance

42. “a stay of execution”
“students just know how to work the system”
“students will cheat if they can get away with it”
“they are grade-grubbers”
“they don’t know anything we taught them at the 100 level”
Stop Blaming Students

43. Student Anxiety,
Financial stress,
Powerlessness
Open Pedagogy:
Student Trust, Agency,
and Empowerment
Open Pedagogy:
Students Create and
Share knowledge
Other Systemic
Problems:
-Economic
-Environmental
-Social and
Cultural
Systemic issues in
Education:
-Standardization
-Grades-Focus
-Surveillance
-High Cost
OER:
Cost Savings

44. I want my students
to learn things that I
can’t even imagine
teaching them yet.
Instead of training
them, I want to
empower them to
transform the world.

45. This work by Karen Cangialosi is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
License
Follow me on twitter @karencang