Examples of Open Pedagogy

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What Might Open Pedagogy Look Like?

Here are some examples of open pedagogy:

  • Adapt, remix, or build OER textbooks with your students
  • Ask your students to help write test questions
  • Ask your students to help construct the course reading list
  • Ask your students to curate or contribute to course content
  • Build collaboratively with students your class policies, syllabus, assignments, rubrics, calendar, etc.
  • Have students create tutorial videos to be used in the current course and/or future courses
  • Have students share their work on a social media platform of choice or create blogs, podcasts, or websites
  • Engage students in public chats with authors or experts
  • Encourage students to apply their expertise to serve their community
  • Have students translate existing open resources into other languages
  • Teach your students how to write or edit Wikipedia articles Links to an external site.

Real World Examples

Here are some very helpful descriptions of open pedagogy projects that have actually been carried out by faculty from a variety of disciplines:

Introduction to Open Pedagogy: Examples Links to an external site. (UTA Libraries): Here we see students as textbook contributors (creating an open anthology of public domain literature), as OER adapters, as question bank authors (for a Social Psychology course), as community partners (designing an interactive game for the university library), and as Wikipedia contributors (for Latin American literature).

Open Pedagogy Approaches Links to an external site.: Scroll down to browse the table of contents — each chapter describes an open pedagogy project, from textbook replacement to open student projects, to open course design, and much more. 

Open Pedagogy Network — Examples Links to an external site.: Detailed examples of specific courses where students created textbooks, websites, zines, collaborative annotated bibliographies, collaborative syllabi, and more.

University of Saskatchewan — Examples of Open Pedagogy Links to an external site.: Health Studies students looked at the COVID-19 pandemic through an interdisciplinary lens Links to an external site. and created artwork and reflective writings as a way of sharing their own experiences (the work was published in the Canadian Medical Education Journal). Also, students in the College of Education contributed to the creation of an open textbook Links to an external site. based on their experiences as teachers of English as an additional language (EAL). 

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