Open Educational Practices (OEP)

Using Open Pedagogy

Unlike OER, Open Pedagogy cannot be neatly defined. Not even the name of the practices is consistent in the community.  These practices are called Open Educational Practices (OEP), Open Pedagogy, Open Teaching Practices, among others. They refer to both using resources with open licensing in teaching but also allowing students, with the use of these licenses, to in turn contribute and share their own knowledge and work with the world. We can think about Open Pedagogy as an access-oriented commitment to learner-driven education and as a process of designing architectures and using tools for learning that enable students to shape the public knowledge commons of which they are a part.

Here are some examples of Open Pedagogy:

  • Adapt or remix OERs with your students
  • Build OERs with your students
  • Teach your students how to edit Wikipedia articles
  • Have your students help write test questions
  • Facilitate student-created and student-controlled learning environments in your LMS
  • Build course policies, outcomes, assignments, rubrics, schedules of work collaboratively with students

Additional links

Optional Webinar

UDL, SLO, OEP – the alphabet soup of good course design Links to an external site.: There is no “typical” student. How can we design courses that engage diverse students and provide mechanisms for students to accurately demonstrate their learning? Universal Design for Learning (UDL) helps us build courses accessible to all students. UDL encourages course designs to empower students in how they acquire information and demonstrate learning. Open Educational Practices (OEP) can be a key strategy to help establish UDL in your courses. We will look at course designs that increase student choice, encourage critical thinking, and improve learning. When paired with Backwards Design, UDL and OEP strategies also help us build assignments that more accurately measure student learning outcomes (SLO).This session will demonstrate how these frameworks can be used to design effective and engaging online learning activities and assessments.

Attributions

Remixed from “Open Pedagogy,” by Robin Derosa and Rajiv Jhangiani, from  A Guide to Making Open Textbooks with Students Links to an external site. by Rebus Community is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License Links to an external site..