Open Educational Practices at Davidson College, Day 2

Slides for a 2-day workshop at Davidson College in North Carolina, USA, May 29-30, 2018. See the website I created for the workshop for more information and to download the slides in an editable, Power Point format.

Here are the day 1 slides for this workshop.

Transcript

1. OPEN EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES
   Christina Hendricks, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
   Davidson College, May 29-30, 2018
   Day 2 slides
   Except images licensed otherwise, this presentation is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0
   

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2. Website
   for this
   track
   ▪ Has schedule, slides,
   ▪ and more
   ▪ chendricks.org/oep2018
   

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3. Open pedagogy:
   What?
   

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4. Revisiting annotations on
   open pedagogy
   § Look at the annotations we did yesterday on the
   Year of Open site
   § Anything to add from there about open
   pedagogy to our shared doc?
   § Anything to add from the Open Pedagogy
   Notebook site?
   

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5. Quotes about open pedagogy
   § “we shift the student emphasis to contribution to
   knowledge as opposed to simple consumption of
   knowledge” (Heather Ross)
   § “the ability for learners to shape and take ownership of
   their own education” (Devon Ritter)
   § “connect with a broader, global community” (Tannis
   Morgan)
   § “teacher as ‘the’ authority vs. students being able to
   bring other sources of authority” (Jim Luke)
   

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6. Non-disposable
   assignments
   “… assignments that are sustainable or
   not disposable, assignments that would
   have benefit to others beyond the
   limited course time and space”
   -- Maha Bali (2017)
   David Wiley on disposable assignments
   (2013)
   Images licensed CC0 on pixabay.com: ttrash can and symbol for no
   

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7. OER-enabled
   pedagogy
   “What teaching and learning
   practices are possible (or
   practical) in the context of OER
   that aren’t possible when you
   don’t have permission to
   engage in the 5R activities?”
   -- Wiley, “OER-enabled pedagogy”
   (2017)
   Reuse Revise
   Remix Retain
   Redistribute
   

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8. Access &
   Agency
   OER & OEP focus on:
   Access Agency
   Cost Revision, creation
   of OER
   Easily (?)
   available
   Contribution to
   knowledge
   Accessibility for
   disabilities
   co-create
   curriculum
   

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9. Open
   Pedagogy
   Themes
   Agency
   Collaborate
   Connect
   Contribute
   

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10. Collaborate Contribute Connect
    § Tchrs/learners
    share authority
    § Co-create
    curriculum
    § Flexibility,
    student choice
    § Transparency,
    trust
    § Students & tchrs
    contribute to public
    knowledge
    § Adapt, create,
    share OER
    § Contribute ideas to
    open-ended
    problems, questions
    § Participation of
    people outside
    the course, e.g.,
    ▫ Blogs
    ▫ Social media
    ▫ Annotations
    ▫ Public reports
    for community
    groups
    See Hendricks 2017a, 2017b
    

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11. Examples of Open
    Pedagogy
    

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12. Wikipedia
    projects
    

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13. Wiki Education Foundation
    Brochure covers
    licensed CC BY-SA,
    available from
    WikiEdu
    

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14. Students & Open Textbooks
    Cover licensed CC BY 4.0
    see book here
    Student-created open textbook from Digital Technology & Culture
    course by David Squires, 2016. Read about the project in this interview.
    

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15. Students contributing to other OER
    cases.open.ubc.ca digitaltattoo.ubc.ca/
    

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16. Students contributing to curriculum
    § Creating assignments, exam questions,
    tutorials:
    • DS106 assignment bank
    • Rajiv Jhangiani’s Social Psychology course
    • Student video tutorials in Digital
    Photography course
    § Creating learning outcomes, assignments,
    grading policies & rubrics
    § Robin DeRosa’s First Year Seminar
    

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17. Small
    Steps
    ▪ Philosophy in the World posts in
    introduction to philosophy
    ▪ Student-created genetics
    worksheet
    

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18. Stretch
    Time for a break
    About 10 minutes
    Duck photo by Ken Treloar; Cat photo by
    Gaelle Marcel, both on Unsplash
    

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19. Open Pedagogy
    Benefits & Challenges
    

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20. Our ideas on benefits &
    challenges
    Discuss in groups and write on our shared document:
    § What benefits can you see from engaging students in one
    or more of the open pedagogy projects we’ve discussed?
    For the students themselves and for others?
    § What challenges or drawbacks can you see? Do you have
    any worries?
    

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21. Open pedagogy & social justice
    “open pedagogy is an ethos that has two …
    components:
    • A belief in the potential of openness and sharing
    to improve learning
    • A social justice orientation – caring about equity,
    with openness as one way to achieve this”
    -- Maha Bali, “What is Open Pedagogy?” (2017)
    Photo licensed CC0 on pixabay.com
    

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22. Student Perceptions: Benefits
    You’re able to be part of
    community conversations …
    happening right now.”
    -- What Students Have to Say about Open ED
    “I became a better writer .... I knew [the blog
    posts] could potentially be seen by people
    outside … so I wanted to make sure my
    information was accurate and written well.”
    -- student at Keene State College
    “I liked how the wiki
    made me feel like I
    was actually making a
    contribution with my
    work – it’s become
    meaningful.”
    -- student contributor
    to UBC Open Case
    Studies
    

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23. Student Perceptions: Challenges
    Wiki projects are a good idea for learning, but
    making students fill a database for the sole
    purpose of UBC being viewed as a diverse source
    of knowledge seems shady.
    --student contributor to UBC Open Case Studies
    Some of the challenges I faced was
    uncertainty. As a student who has never
    used this kind of learning before I was
    scared honestly.”
    -- Keene State College student
    How can we be
    sure we’re not
    exploiting
    students to
    create resources
    for courses
    without pay?
    -- UBC student
    

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24. Risks
    Privacy and
    student data
    Bullying &
    harassment
    Digital
    tattoo
    

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25. Sava Singh on the fallacy of open
    Photo licensed CC0 on pixabay.com
    “… open is not good for everyone ... The hype around
    open, while well-intentioned, is also unintentionally
    putting many people in harm’s way and they in turn end
    up having to endure so much. The people calling for
    open are often in positions of privilege, or have reaped
    the benefits of being open early on …”
    -- Sava Singh, “The Fallacy of Open” (2015)
    

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26. Day 2, afternoon
    OEP and open pedagogy in your practice
    What’s “open” about OEP and OP?
    Virtual discussion with Rajiv Jhangiani
    

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27. OEP & OP in your
    practice
    § Worksheet on own (use our shared doc for ideas if you
    want) (10-15 mins)
    § Groups: how to address possible challenges (15 mins)
    § Share back to large group (15 mins)
    § Write next steps on worksheet; add to padlet (15 mins):
    https://v.gd/davidsonOEPpadlet
    

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28. Stretch
    Time for a break
    About 10 minutes
    Duck photo by Ken Treloar; Cat photo by
    Gaelle Marcel, both on Unsplash
    

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29. What’s “open” about
    OEP & OP?
    Why call these things “open”?
    Write on our shared document
    

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30. What’s open about these?
    Students producing
    OER, public
    knowledge
    Student choice,
    agency, autonomy;
    co-creators of
    curricula
    Connecting
    to wider
    networks
    Open-ended
    problems; valuing
    creativity & change
    Transparency in
    teaching & learning,
    fostering trust
    From two blog posts: May 2017, Oct 2017
    

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31. Open Edu 60s & 70s
    Flexibility in space
    & time, in curricula
    Student choice,
    autonomy; self-
    directed learning
    Individualized
    instruction; teacher
    as facilitator
    See Paquette (1979), Tunnell (1975)
    

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32. Does it help to call these “open”?
    Similar ideas:
    Self-directed Learning Connected Learning
    Student as Producer Students as Partners
    

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33. Too
    broad?
    ▪We suffer from “attempts to lump
    diverse trends together under the
    rubric of ‘open education’. Let us
    press for more specific and
    descriptive labels to identify the
    values, objectives or procedures that
    are being commended to us ….”
    (Hill, 1975)
    

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34. Open is Yum
    An excellent candidate for sloganizing is the word
    ‘open’. Immediately one uses it, the options polarize.
    To be open … is to be not closed, restricted,
    prejudiced or clogged; but free, candid, generous,
    above board, mentally flexible, future-oriented, etc.
    The opposite does not bear thinking about, and there
    can be no third alternative. ‘Open’ is yum.
    -- Hill, 1975
    

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35. Is open more than yum?
    In OEP and OP
    

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36. Virtual discussion with Rajiv
    Jhangiani
    About open pedagogy and Open Pedagogy
    Notebook website
    

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37. Works cited (day 2 slides), p. 1
    § Bali, M. (2017, April). Post on April Open Perspective: What is Open Pedagogy? Retrieved
    May 22, 2017, from https://www.yearofopen.org/april-open-perspective-what-is-open-
    pedagogy/
    § Hendricks, C. (2017a, May 23). Navigating open pedagogy, part 2. Retrieved May 20, 2018,
    from http://blogs.ubc.ca/chendricks/2017/05/23/navigating-open-pedagogy-pt2/
    § Hendricks, C. (2017b, October 25). Open Pedagogy, shared aspects. Retrieved May 20,
    2018, from http://blogs.ubc.ca/chendricks/2017/10/25/open-pedagogy-shared-aspects/
    § Hill, B. V. (1975). What’s open about open education? In D. Nyberg (Ed.), The Philosophy of
    Open Education (Vol. 15). London: Routledge & K. Paul.
    § Luke, J. (2017, April 23). What’s Open? Are OER Necessary? Retrieved March 8, 2018, from
    https://econproph.com/2017/04/23/whats-open-are-oer-necessary/
    § Morgan, T. (2017, April 13). Reflections on #OER17 – From Beyond Content to Open
    Pedagogy. Retrieved March 8, 2018, from https://homonym.ca/uncategorized/reflections-
    on-oer17-from-beyond-content-to-open-pedagogy/
    

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38. Works cited (day 2 slides), p. 2
    § Paquette, C. (1979). Quelques fondements d’une pédagogie ouverte. Québec français,
    36, 20–21.
    § Ritter, D. (2017, April). Post on April Open Perspective: What is Open Pedagogy? Retrieved
    May 22, 2017, from https://www.yearofopen.org/april-open-perspective-what-is-open-
    pedagogy/
    § Ross, H. (2017, April). Post on April Open Perspective: What is Open Pedagogy? Retrieved
    May 22, 2017, from https://www.yearofopen.org/april-open-perspective-what-is-open-
    pedagogy/
    § singh, sava. (2015, June 27). The Fallacy of “Open.” Retrieved May 27, 2018, from
    https://savasavasava.wordpress.com/2015/06/27/the-fallacy-of-open/
    § Tunnell, D. (1975). Open education: An expression in search of a definition. In Philosophy
    of open education (Vol. 15). London: Routledge & K. Paul.
    § Wiley, D. (2013, October 21). What is Open Pedagogy? Retrieved February 15, 2015, from
    http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/2975
    § Wiley, D. (2017, May 2). OER-Enabled Pedagogy. Retrieved May 26, 2018, from
    https://opencontent.org/blog/archives/5009
    

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39. Special thanks to all the people who made and released these
    awesome resources:
    Presentation template by SlidesCarnival licensed CC BY 4.0
    Images not attributed above:
    Photo on title slide by Monika Majkowska on Unsplash
    Icons purchased with a subscription to The Noun Project
    Credits (day 2 slides)
    

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