Module A1: Scoping Your Values and Goals Worksheet
Overview
This workshop purposefully begins by having you scope your values and goals (Module A1) and then your capacity (Module A2) before you scope your project (Module A3) as both A1 and A2 are crucial for determining that scope. We’re asking you to put aside the what of your project and reflect on the why.
As you think about your own values and goals, we also ask you to start this process by considering how your project can center diversity, equity, and inclusion. One of the hallmarks of open education is that it prioritizes access. When materials are both open and free, barriers to access for students are removed. Open pedagogy centers access as well, but in a way that prioritizes student access to participatory knowledge creation. When we invite students to bring the whole of themselves to creating or modifying course content, course content will inevitably be changed to reflect the diversity and complexity of student identities.
Activity
Working with the facilitators, on your own, or with your collaborators, describe your values and goals, using the following questions to get you started:
- What brings you here to this workshop?
- What aspects of open pedagogy energize you?
- What are you trying to achieve for yourself? Will this work be rewarding for you as an instructor?
- What values are you trying to embody in your teaching and inspire in your students? How can your project center diversity, equity, and inclusion? Consider looking at Improving Representation and Diversity in OER Materials from OpenStax for a practical framework for doing so. Take a look at the article “Changing our (Dis)Course: A Distinctive Social Justice Aligned Definition of Open Education” (including Table 1) as you consider how your project can align with social justice principles.
Module A2