Open Educational Resources (OER)

Open Pedagogy

Open pedagogy is a practice which uses the 5R activity framework to design lessons and assessments that encourage students to improve or create course content. With open pedagogy projects, students are empowered to engage in information creation through non-disposable or renewable assignments. The student is both creator and contributor of assignments that are openly licensed, allowing the content to be shared, revised, and reused by future students in a course.

Examples of open pedagogy assignments:

• Make a tutorial video over a topic or assignment from class.

• Worked examples that provide other students with step-by-step templates of how to do problems.

• Collaborative Syllabus or Blank Syllabus Assignment

• Create games to be played by future generations of learners to help them prepare for, or deepen their learning on, specific topics.

• Create guides to direct other students through readings or lectures.

• Written or video-based presentations that summarize an idea.

• Blog posts
  • The Recipes Project Undergraduate Series

• Social annotation
  • Social Annotation and the Pedagogy of Hypothesis.is
  • Using Hypothes.is in the Classroom

"Assignment Examples", is a derivative of "Understanding OER". Provided by: SUNY OER Services. Located at: https://oer.suny.edu/. Project: OER Community Course. License: CC BY: Attribution. "Assignment Examples" is licensed under CC BY 4.0 by Natalie Young

Project examples of open pedagogy:

• Test Banks: students create test bank questions

• Diversity and Inclusion: Add diverse points of view to existing OER.

• Textbook Adaptation: Turn a general studies OER into a content-specific text.

• Key Terms: Create a glossary of key terms for an OER that does not have one.

• Wikipedia Contributors: Update or create information on a course topic.
  • How instructors are teaching with Wikipedia

• Student Stories: Curate content around the unique perspective of students whose voices are traditionally underrepresented.

• Historical Perspectives: Have students collect historical artifacts from their family or community library and write about the history of the artifact. This can also be used to make TEKS history lesson plans. (Example: Rio Grande Valley Primary Souce Guides)

• Contribute to Existing Projects: Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature

• Student-authored Open Textbooks: La lingüística hispánica: Una introducción

Open Pedagogy Examples by Gabrielle Hernandez and Natalie Young is licensed under CC BY 4.0