Slides from my workshop

1. Open Pedagogy
Mary Burgess, Executive Director, BCcampus
Teaching and Learning with the Power of
Technology Conference 2016
May 2, 2016
@maryeburgess
#TLt16
mburgess@bccampus.ca

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3. Agenda
• What is Open Pedagogy?
• The disposable assignment
• Trying to do better
• A Matrix
• Your turn
Session Outcomes
• By the end of this session, you will know (at least) one definition of Open
Educational Practice and some examples of what it looks like in practice
• You will be able to create an assignment that makes use of the principles
of Open Pedagogy

4. Your assignment, should you choose to accept it…
Is Willy Loman a tragic
hero?
• Discuss, in 1200 words.
• Documents should be double
spaced, Times New Roman font.
• Submitted electronically to the
course drop box (accessible to
instructor only).

5. What is Open?
“OER are teaching,
learning, and research
resources that reside in the
public domain or have been
released under an
intellectual property license
that permits their free use
and re-purposing by
others.”
http://www.hewlett.org/programs/education-
program/open-educational-resources
• The right to make, own and control copies of the
contentRetain
• The right to use the content in a wide range of waysReuse
• The right to adapt, adjust, or modify the content
itselfRevise
• The right to combine the original or revised content
with other open content to create something newRemix
• The right to share copies of the original content,
your revisions, or your remixes with othersRedistribute

6. open = free + permissions
Free, unfettered access
perpetual, irrevocable

7. Looking for OER?
http://open.bccampus.ca

8. What is Pedagogy?

9. What is Open Pedagogy?
Iterating Toward a Definition…
Dr. David Wiley has said Open Pedagogy includes:
• Teaching and Learning Practices that are possible when you adopt OER
but are impossible when you adopt traditionally copyrighted materials
• Use of OER
• Students work in the open: create and share their work

10. What is Open Pedagogy?
At it’s core, the question of open
pedagogy is “what can I do in the
context of open that I couldn’t do
before?”
– from David Wiley in his blog post: Evolving Open Pedagogy.

11. How do WE, as educators,
best engage our students
in DEEPER learning?

12. The disposable assignment
• No added value
• Students don’t like doing them
• Faculty don’t like grading them

13. • allow my students to develop and exercise useful
skills that aligned well with course and program
learning outcomes
• produce something that would add value to the
world
• produce something that would be openly available
• provide sufficient support so that the experience
would not be terrifying for them (a serious concern,
as I was asking them to step well outside of their
comfort zones)
• build in enough latitude so that the assignment
would constitute a creative project and not simple a
recipe for the same product
@ThatPsychProf – Dr. Rajiv Jhangiani’s work
Blog post CC-By From http://thatpsychprof.com/pilot-testing-open-pedagogy/

14. Matrix
The Matrix: a tool for
generating examples…
Open
(Resources & Approaches)
Not Open
(Resources & Approaches)
Learning Centered Design *1* 3
Teaching Centered Design 2 4

15. Matrix
The Matrix: a tool for
generating examples…
Open
(Resources & Approaches)
practices that are possible when adopting
OER but are impossible when you adopt
traditionally copyrighted materials”. Use of
OER, requirement for students to work out
in the open: create and share their work
Not Open
(Resources & Approaches)
what we might think of as “traditional” -
costly “closed” textbooks, learning
community activity limited to the f2f
classroom or behind an LMS firewall
Learning Centered Design
authentic, flexible, learning-centred (vs.
content or instructor-centred), creative
assignments that invite reflection, real-
world learning, student choice
*1* 3
Teaching Centered Design
what we might describe of as “teacher-
centred” methods: lecture-heavy,
“disposable” assignments , assessment
focused on exams, multiple choice, students
demonstrate learning to instructors only,
everyone does the same thing, or
limited/instructor-determined choices
2 4

16. Matrix
The Matrix: a tool for
generating examples…
Open
(Resources & Approaches)
practices that are possible when adopting
OER but are impossible when you adopt
traditionally copyrighted materials”. Use of
OER, requirement for students to work out
in the open: create and share their work
Not Open
(Resources & Approaches)
what we might think of as “traditional” -
costly “closed” textbooks, learning
community activity limited to the f2f
classroom or behind an LMS firewall
Learning Centered Design
authentic, flexible, learning-centred (vs.
content or instructor-centred), creative
assignments that invite reflection, real-
world learning, student choice
*1*
Examples of open pedagogy:
innovative, learning-centred
design, supported by
affordances of the internet
3
Examples of great learning
design, with “closed”
resources, conducted in
“closed” spaces
Teaching Centered Design
“traditional”: lecture-heavy, “disposable”
assignments , assessment focused on
exams, multiple choice, students
demonstrate learning to instructors only,
everyone does the same thing, or
limited/instructor-determined choices
2
Examples that use OER, but
under-utilize potential of
Open
4
Examples of “teacher-
centred” methods,
disposable assignments in a
closed environment

17. Matrix
The Matrix: a tool for
generating examples…
Open
(Resources & Approaches)
practices that are possible when adopting
OER but are impossible when you adopt
traditionally copyrighted materials”. Use of
OER, requirement for students to work out
in the open: create and share their work
Not Open
(Resources & Approaches)
what we might think of as “traditional” -
costly “closed” textbooks, learning
community activity limited to the f2f
classroom or behind an LMS firewall
Learning Centered Design
authentic, flexible, learning-centred (vs.
content or instructor-centred), creative
assignments that invite reflection, real-
world learning, student choice
*1*
• Murder, Madness & Mayhem
(students edit wikipedia
entries to “featured”
status”)
3
• student-led real-world
research or service
projects that include
critical reflection and
connections made to course
concepts and (not open)
course resources
Teaching Centered Design
“traditional” methods: lecture-heavy,
“disposable” assignments , assessment
focused on exams, multiple choice, students
demonstrate learning to instructors only,
everyone does the same thing, or
limited/instructor-determined choices
2
• Open-book, multiple choice
final exam in a course
that uses an open text
4
• Essay that only the
teacher reads/grades: Is
[Willy Loman, Hamlet, etc)
a tragic hero?

18. And now, back to Willy Loman…
Is Willy Loman a tragic
hero?
• Discuss, in 1200 words.
• Documents should be double
spaced, Times New Roman font.
• Submitted electronically to the
course drop box (accessible to
instructor only).
How can we do this differently?

19. Your turn
Consider an assignment you already have in your course (or rework the Willy Loman
assignment) and discuss how you might make it into a “renewable assignment.”
For the purpose of this challenge, think of a renewable assignment as one that:
• has an audience that is wider than just the instructor or teaching assistant
• somehow contributes to a wider body of knowledge that can be used by others
• can be reused and revised by others
Explain what your new assignment would require students to do, what benefits you think
making this assignment into a renewable one might have, and what challenges you can
foresee in doing so.
Best to start with your learning outcomes.

20. • Go to the website and check out the
examples others have contributed
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TDf9Uem4SID0a
nlUQPxWdwCh3SkvQnEpvQu_bRGRUIU/edit
• Think about the assignments you’re
currently using to assess students –
could you use OEP to make them more
meaningful and engaging?
• Could you ask your students to help you
redesign the assignments?
What’s next?

21. Thank You…
Questions?
@maryeburgess