Emerging technologies offer new ways to conceptualise teaching and learning practices by inviting further opportunities for the personalisation of inquiry-driven learning, fostering student creativity, and promoting student engagement. This session will explore ways in which you might engage students in co-creating knowledge and resources, engaging students in more openly visible learning experiences for review by their peers or the community at large. This session focuses on how to integrate open education practices in your teaching and learning practices, what it looks like, how to engage students, which integrates open educational practices.

1. Students Co-Creating
Course Content and
Evaluating Their Own
Learning
Michael Paskevicius
Learning Technologies Application Developer
Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning

2. What have you
created that you
are most proud of?

3. The Disposable
Assignment
What if we changed these “disposable assignments” into activities which actually
added value to the world? Then students and faculty might feel different about the
time and effort they invested in them. I have seen time and again that they do feel
different about the efforts they make under these circumstances.
These are assignments that students complain about doing and faculty complain
about grading. They’re assignments that add no value to the world – after a student
spends three hours creating it, a teacher spends 30 minutes grading it, and then the
student throws it away.
(Wiley, 2013)

4. Making use of the devices at hand

5. Basics: Docs and Collaborative Docs
Powerpoint is actually a very easy,
accessible, and powerful tool for creating
graphics, mixing text, and of course
creating presentations
● Using PowerPoint as a design tool
Google Suite (docs, sheets, slides,
drawings) is a great option for building
collaborative works
● Adding collaborative Google
Documents in your VIULearn Course
#MakeSlidesFunAgain

6. Web based tools to support personalization
Bower’s (2016) typology of Web
2.0 collaborative technologies
http://bit.ly/VIUWebTools

7. How might you engage students with
using these tools in your context?

8. Student projects and ePortfolios
http://studentblogs.viu.ca/erringtontkd http://studentblogs.viu.ca/knyvan

9. Biology 325
• Collective scholarly and reflective writing initiative
• Students tasked with creating two articles on a local bird
species of their choice
• Peer review emerged as students commented on each
other's work
http://wordpress.viu.ca/biol325

10. https://wordpress.viu.ca/cieviurecipes/

11. Collective reflection
• CSCW 586 @ UVic
• In a single term course we produced
• 364 Reflective blog posts
• 1,020 Comments by peers
• Blogs and comments on readings were
worth 35% of the course grade
https://cscwuvic2015.wordpress.com

12. What are the potential benefits and challenges
to students co-creating course content?

13. Sounds good, but how do we implement such a thing?

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15. References
Bower, M. (2016). Deriving a Typology of Web 2.0 Learning Technologies. British Journal of Educational Technology, 47(4),
763–777. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.12344
FitzGerald, E., Kucirkova, N., Jones, A., Cross, S., Ferguson, R., Herodotou, C., … Scanlon, E. (2017). Dimensions of
Personalisation in Technology-Enhanced Learning: A Framework and Implications for Design. British Journal of Educational
Technology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.12534
Hendricks, C. (2015). Non-Disposable Assignments in Intro To Philosophy. You're The Teacher: Teaching & Learning, and
SoTL, in Philosophy, August 18, 2015. http://blogs.ubc.ca/chendricks/2015/08/18/non-disposable-assignments-intro-
philosophy /
Wiley, D. (2013). What is Open Pedagogy? Iterating Toward Openness Blog, October 21, 2013.
http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/2975

16. Prepared by: Michael Paskevicius
Learning Technologies Application Developer
Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning
michael.paskevicus@viu.ca
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