LibGuides: Free, Open, and Affordable Resources: 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.

Below is a framework for Open Pedagogy, proposed by Bronwyn Hegarty. Developing "openness" can be challenging. For example, educators may be uncomfortable sharing their work or inviting peer review in open platforms. Open Pedagogy does require a change in mindset to develop openness and work in a specific way; however, most educators already collaborate and share, and the attributes listed below are about extending that current practice.

The Eight Attributes of Open Pedagogy

Participatory Technologies—Use Web 2.0 and mobile apps to connect around learning
People, Openness, Trust—Develop trust and openness for working with others
Innovation & Creativity—Encourage spontaneous innovation and creativity
Sharing Ideas & Resources—Share freely to enable the fair dissemination of knowledge
Connected Community—Participate in a connected community of professionals
Learner Generated—Facilitate learners‘ contributions to OER
Reflective Practice—Engage in opportunities for reflective practice
Peer Review—Contribute to open critique of others‘ scholarship

Bronwyn Hegarty’s Eight Attributes of Open Pedagogy, Podcast Transcript, from the Alberta Open Educational Resources Initiative, licensed under CC BY SA; What is Open Pedagogy Wikieducator, licensed CC BY SA; Eight attributes of Open Pedagogy (PDF)

Adapted from the Nebraska OER Toolkit—the toolkit was developed with assistance from the College Libraries Ontario (CLO), the Ontario Colleges Library Service (OCLS) the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME).

Michael Paskevicius, of Vancouver Island University (VIU), defines open pedagogy as,

Teaching and learning practices where openness is enacted within all aspects of instructional practice; including the design of learning outcomes, the selection of teaching resources, and the planning of activities and assessment. OEP engage both faculty and students with the use and creation of OER, draw attention to the potential afforded by open licences, facilitate open peer-review, and support participatory student-directed projects.

Paskevicius, M. (2017). Conceptualizing open educational practices through the lens of constructive alignment. Open Praxis, 9(2), pp. 125-140. http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.9.2.519

Open pedagogy, then, uses open resources to reimagine and reshape classroom practice to allow greater flexibility, greater collaboration, and greater engagement.

Articles on Open Pedagogy

April open perspective: What is open pedagogy? (2017, April).Year of the Open 2017. https://www.yearofopen.org/april-open-perspective-what-is-open-pedagogy/
DeRosa, R., & Jhangiani, R. (2017, August 29). Open pedagogy. In E. Mays (Ed.), A guide to making open textbooks with students, Rebus Community, https://press.rebus.community/makingopentextbookswithstudents/part/introduction-to-open-pedagogy/
NextThought Studio (2019, October 31). 8 Qualities of open Ppedagogy. Next thought. nextthought.com/thoughts/2015/02/ten-qualities-of-open-pedagogy
Sinkinson, C. (2018, November 14). The values of open pedagogy. Educause. https://er.educause.edu/blogs/2018/11/the-values-of-open-pedagogy
Wiley, D.. (2013, October 21). What is open pedagogy? Iterating toward openness. https://opencontent.org/blog/archives/2975
Wiley, D. (2017, April 21). When opens collide. Iterating toward openness. https://opencontent.org/blog/archives/4990
Wiley, D. & Hilton, J. (2018). Defining OER-Enabled pedagogy. International review of research in open and distributed learning. 19(4). www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/3601/4724

Open Pedagogy Resources

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.
Teaching in the Open (University of British Columbia)
Discussion of open pedagogy and examples.
Nebraska OER Toolkit
This toolkit provides information and tools to help educators and education staff to understand, engage with, and sustain OER in their work and practice.

Examples of Open-Enabled Pedagogy

Open/Open-Enabled Pedagogy--Examples (Rhode Island College Library)
Open pedagogy approaches include:
Student-designed assignments, assessments, learning outcomes, and projects. Student led creation, adaptation, or editing of textbooks or other content. Connected learning with scholars, communities, or publics such as Wikipedia editing, collaborative annotation, or curation.
Open pedagogy: examples of class activities / You're the Teacher by Christina Hendricks
Christina Hendricks shares examples of Open Pedagogy, as well as the value she has found in embracing Open Pedagogy.
Samples of Open Pedagogy (Compiled by Quill West)
Google folder of assignments and tools on open pedagogy and Creative Commons licensing
In the Community: An Intermediate Integrated Skills Textbook
"With funding from Alberta Open Educational Resources, Bow Valley College and NorQuest College collaborated to create Open Educational Resources (OER) in the form of e-textbooks for English language learners. NorQuest College created In the Community: An Intermediate Integrated Skills Textbook. The textbook: helps learners notice, learn, and practice English that will be helpful in your community ; gives learners practice in the four main language skills-listening, speaking, reading, and writing ; helps learners learn about intercultural skills ; helps learners develop some important essential skills ; can be used as an online textbook with interactive activities or downloaded, printed and used as a regular textbook.

Books on Open Pegagogy

Guide to Making Open Textbooks With Students by Elizabeth Mays (Editor)
Call Number: LB1044.88 .G85 2017
ISBN: 198901402X
Publication Date: 2017
Are you interested in open pedagogy? The Guide to Making Open Textbooks With Students is the handbook for involving students in the making of open textbooks, ancillary materials, or other Open Educational Resources. Inside, you will find:
An introduction to open pedagogy from experts Robin DeRosa, director of interdisciplinary studies at Plymouth State University, and Rajiv Jhangiani, University Teaching Fellow in Open Studies at Kwantlen Polytechnic University;
Project ideas, case studies, interviews with, and first-person accounts from faculty and students engaged in open textbook projects in the classroom;
Three sample assignments for creating or updating open textbooks; and Resources such as a guide to CC licensing, and an MOU for students and faculty.
Interactive Open Educational Resources by John D. Shank
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 1118419677
Publication Date: 2013-12-13
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2014! Sponsored by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), this one-of-a-kind book demonstrates the best tools, resources, and techniques for discovering, selecting, and integrating interactive open educational resources (OERs) into the teaching and learning process. The author examines many of the best repositories and digital library websites for finding high quality materials, explaining in depth the best practices for effectively searching these repositories and the various methods for evaluating, selecting, and integrating the resources into the instructor's curriculum and course assignments, as well as the institution's learning management system.
Open Educational Resources (OER) Pedagogy and Practices by Molly Y. Zhou (Editor)
ISBN: 9781799812005
Publication Date: 2019-11-29
Access to learning materials has been an issue within education that has had a profound impact on student outcomes and equality among students. New strategies for promoting more equal access to these materials began within institutions of higher learning and can be adapted at lower levels to facilitate equity within educational systems. Open Educational Resources (OER) Pedagogy and Practices is a comprehensive research publication that explores open access to educational materials and its impact on educational cost, educational equity, and poverty. Featuring a range of topics such as instructional design, pedagogy, and gamification, this book is essential for teachers, curriculum developers, instructional designers, principals, school boards, educational professionals, academicians, professors, administrators, educational policymakers, researchers, and educational agencies.

Open Pedagogy Approached by Alexis Clifton and Kimberly Davies Hoffman
The term “open” has been heavily used in the past decade or more and can come with multiple interpretations: open access, open source, open textbook, open pedagogy … In general, “open” within these contexts implies unlimited, free, public access with the ability to manipulate and transform the educational content.Within the educational realm, we see even greater nuances of “open” in terms of how the access to and adapted creation work together. Our book aims to shed light on multiple definitions and how they are applied in a variety of learning experiences.Chapters provide case studies of library-teaching faculty collaborations that explore the intersecting roles and desired outcomes that each partner contributes toward student learning in an open environment.