Open pedagogy is an excellent way to engage students in creating content in the classroom and building transferable skills that they can use in other courses and future careers. In October 21', Hilary Bussell, Social Sciences Librarian, decided she wanted to incorporate open pedagogy into the course revision she was doing for International Studies 4850: Understanding the Global Information Society. In this course, students use information literacy concepts to explore how information is produced, disseminated, and interpreted across the world. A mutual colleague connected her to Amanda Larson, the libraries' Affordable Learning Instructional Consultant, to talk through a plan to make this transition. Through a series of conversations, we collaborated to identify the tools and pedagogical strategies that would be used in the class. The end result was a scaffolded learning experience where students would work in Pressbooks to complete their assignments and then decide at the end of the semester whether they would openly license them, share them publicly while retaining their copyright, or hide them from the public view. Bussell also decided to incorporate the social annotation tool Hypothes.is to facilitate asynchronous reading discussions.
In this session, we will collaboratively define open pedagogy with participants through an interactive activity using Mentimeter before presenting on how we collaborated to redesign the course and scaffold the experience students had working in Pressbooks to create their assignments. We will then offer suggestions on how to use Pressbooks/Hypothes.is or similar tools to replicate a similar experience for students using open pedagogy.
By attending this session, attendees will be able to:- Understand and collaboratively define open pedagogy
- Learn how to scaffold an open pedagogy assignment
- Learn how to collaborate on a project using open pedagogy
- Leverage tools that enable an open pedagogical approach to teaching
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