Introduction and Glossary

Introduction and Glossary Worksheet

 

What will I be doing?

Open pedagogy projects can be multi-faceted, single-semester or multi-year, and can result in any number of student authored/created/directed scholarly or non-scholarly outputs. These outputs could include, for example, a public-facing blog post, translating a Wikipedia page, creating a digital scholarly edition, socially annotating, revising an open textbook, and/or contributing to crowd-sourced transcription projects. The Open Pedagogy Project Roadmap is a module-based resource that will assist you in planning, finding support for, sharing, and sustaining your open pedagogy project, regardless of its size or scope. The Roadmap will take you through four modules which will guide you through the 5 Ss of open pedagogy projects: Scope, Support, Students, Sharing, and Sustaining.

Why complete this roadmap?

While there are many affordances of open pedagogy projects for both students and instructors alike, there are also nuances that you may not have considered for traditional assignments which stay within the closed digital or physical classroom learning environment. Open pedagogy projects are designed with the intention of sharing them with future publics — be that with future students, or out on the web — to be reused, revised, or remixed. Open pedagogy projects also invite students into a different relationship with instructors and with knowledge. They invite students to be collaborators and creators instead of learners and consumers. Thus, there are additional considerations for both instructors and students alike.

When would I use the Open Pedagogy Roadmap?

Ideally you will design your Roadmap in the formulation or beginning stages of your project. However, as with any assignment or project, open pedagogy projects are iterative and need revising and rethinking in order to be sustainable. If you have already launched your project, the Open Pedagogy Roadmap will be useful for guiding you through that iterative process.

Glossary:

Open Educational Resources (OER)are teaching, learning, and research resources that are free of cost and access barriers, and which also carry legal permission for open use. Generally, this permission is granted by use of an open license (Creative Commons licenses) which allows anyone to freely use, adapt and share the resource—anytime, anywhere. (SPARC)

Open Pedagogy has many definitions. For this roadmap, we are defining open pedagogy as projects or assignments which have the characteristics of: engaging with students as creators of information rather than simply consumers of it; experiential learning in which students demonstrate understanding through the act of creation; inviting students to be part of the teaching process/participating in the co-creation of knowledge; moving away from single-use assignments in favor of situated, collaborative, and renewable ones; Student agency in deciding if and how their work is shared.

Case Studies and Resources