Guides: Open Educational Resources (OER): Open Pedagogy

What is Open Pedagogy?

"Open pedagogy refers to collaborative teaching and learning practices that help educators to advance a culture of sharing and active learning through OER." (from the College Libraries Ontario OER Toolkit).

Open pedagogical practices can include collaborative curriculum development, open peer review, partnership with students on instruction and learning, development of new OER materials, publication of open access scholarship or pedagogical work.

Eight Attributes of Open Pedagogy (Bronwyn Hegarty)

1. Participatory technologies: Use Web 2.0 and mobile apps to connect around learning

2. People, Openness, Trust: Develop trust and openness in working with others

3. Innovation & Creativity: Encourage spontaneous innovation and creativity

4. Sharing Ideas & Resources: Share freely to enable fair dissemination of knowledge

5. Connected Community: Participate in a connected community of professionals

6. Learner Generated: Facilitate learners' contributions to OER

7. Reflective Practice: Engage in opportunities to reflect on teaching & learning

8. Peer Review: Contribute to open critiques of scholarship

Learn more about Open Educational Practices (wikipedia)

Additional Resources

"Textbooks, OER, and the Need for Open Pedagogy", by Jesse Stommel (2018)
"I would like to shift the conversation about textbooks more toward choice, so the question for teachers becomes not just how much will the required texts for a class cost, but is it necessary that I require specific materials at all? Why would I choose these texts before even meeting the students and understanding their needs? Is there a better way to allow students multiple points of entry to a course? Can I use free online readings instead? Recommended print books? And only require students buy materials those students see as having value beyond a single semester?"
The OER Starter Kit Workbook
The OER Starter Kit Workbook is a remix of the OER Starter Kit to include worksheets to help instructors practice the skills they need to confidently find, use, or even create open educational resources (OER). We welcome instructors, librarians, instructional designers, administrators, and anyone else interested in OER to explore the OER Starter Kit Workbook.
OER Toolkit (College Libraries Ontario)
Through open licencing, OER opens up possibilities for new, more collaborative teaching and learning practices—because the materials can be used, adapted and shared within and across learning communities. This module explores Open Pedagogy—collaborative teaching and learning practices that help educators to advance a culture of sharing and active learning through OER. The module also suggests ways that educators can work with library staff to further their practice of Open Pedagogy.
Open Education Practice Rubric (ISKME)
This rubric defines a set of open educational practices that help educators to advance a culture of open education, and to advocate for the potential benefits of open educational resources (OER) in the context of continuous improvement. The rubric is intended to guide educator practice in working with OER to ensure that every student has the opportunity to engage in learning effectively. The rubric supports educators in accessing, curating, evaluating, and adapting OER in response to students’ particular needs, interests, and contexts, to author and share original or remixed resources, and to disseminate approaches to the implementation of those resources for future OER users to benefit from.
Open Pedagogy Guide (UC-Boulder)
A guide with definitions, resources, and tools for learning more about open pedagogy
Open Pedagogy Notebook
This website is designed to serve as a resource for educators interested in learning more about Open Pedagogy. We invite you to browse through the examples, which include both classroom-tested practices and budding ideas, and to consider contributing examples of your own experiments with open pedagogy.
The Ultimate Guide to Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons for Educators (Edublogger)

Open Tools for Teaching

See also the Digital Pedagogy page on our Digital Scholarship guide for some related resources.

Some free or open-source tools to use in the classroom:

Anchor: a free platform for creating and distributing podcasts.
Hypothes.is: an online annotation tool that lets students annotate and collaborate with any online document. (see: Quick-Start Guide)
Omeka (Classic): a web publishing platform for sharing digital collections and creating media-rich online exhibits.
Storyboarder: a free and open-source storyboarding application that may be used for art, film, writing, advertising, or other projects.
TimelineJS: an open-source tool that enables anyone to build visually rich, interactive timelines.
TruCollector SPLOT: A Wordpress theme for quick and easy collaborative curation of digital objects.
Wordpress: Create a free website or blog.
Wikipedia : a free online encyclopedia and community (see: How to Use Wikipedia as a Teaching Tool)
Other free and open software for projects of all kinds.

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What is Open Pedagogy?

What is Open Pedagogy?

Eight Attributes of Open Pedagogy (Bronwyn Hegarty)

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Open Tools for Teaching

Open Educational Resources (OER)

What is Open Pedagogy?

What is Open Pedagogy?

Eight Attributes of Open Pedagogy (Bronwyn Hegarty)

Additional Resources

Open Tools for Teaching

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