Some how-to conversation starters and ideas for BSU, following the presentation.

1. HOW-TO
OPEN PEDAGOGY ON THE GROUND

2. TOOLS & TECHNIQUES
• OER
• Learner-driven plans
• Building a PLN
• Publishing student work to the web
• Building books
• Public & social reading
• Non-disposable assignments

3. OER
IT’S ALL ABOUT THE LIB GUIDE!
http://maxguides.bridgew.edu/open-educ-
resources

4. LEARNER DRIVEN PLANS
• What can you do in your syllabus
• Crowdsource attendance and late work policies
• Curate course materials with student input
• Have students generate assignments
• Involve students in grading practices
• Use student work to develop the field’s educational materials
(build semester to semester)

5. BUILD A PLN
• Journals
• Listservs
• Conferences
• Twitter: this ain’t your mama’s social media
• Get on yourself! Build your PLN!
• Signing on students: anonymity, trolling, deletion
• Recursive course hashtags: #opensem, #PlymouthIDS, #evolhumbehav, #opencomp
• Tweetdeck: Twitter fishbowls, scholarly/professional hashtags, guest scholar chats,
public chats

6. PUBLISH STUDENT WORK TO THE WEB
• Data Analytics Capstone
• Dance Capstone
• American Lit Blog
• Biology Blog
• International Languages & Cultures
ePort
• Composition ePort
• First-Year Seminar ePort
• ePorts
• Reclaim Hosting
• Domain of One’s Own
• Wordpress.com
• Institutional policies, FERPA
(Faculty Eschewing Rethinking
Pedagogical Approaches), Safety,
Free Choice, Grading/Control
• Open licensing options

7. PRESSBOOKS (& REBUS)
https://openamlit.pressbooks.com/
• Create easy “course packs,”
“textbooks,” “curated
collections,” YOU NAME IT.
• Openly license and share your
books.
• Curate student work, or have
students curate student work…

8. PUBLIC AND SOCIAL READING
• https://hypothes.is/ed
ucation/
• https://rebus.press/ids
connect/
• Hypothes.is
• Annotating OER
• Annotating
websites
• Flash mobs
• Groups

9. NON-DISPOSABLE ASSIGNMENTS
• @clhendricksbc Christina Hendricks
• @thatpsychprof Rajiv Jhangiani
• @opencontent David Wiley
• @acoolidge Amanda Coolidge
• @remikalir Remi Kalir
• @actualham Robin DeRosa
• @karencang Karen Cangialosi
• Editing/Adding to Wikipedia
• Creating video tutorials, simulations, or
illustrations
• Creating websites or student guides
• Submitting Op-Ed pieces to newspapers
• Service learning with results, blueprints, next
steps
• Curricular and structural recommendations for
the university
• Colloquia, poster sessions, cross-course
conferences, trading papers
• Historical tours/historical society collaboratives,
tourist information