Beyond cost savings: The value of OER and
open pedagogy for student learning
Christina Hendricks
Deputy Academic Director, CTLT, UBC
Mt Royal U, March 9, 2018

Slides:
http://is.gd/mru_openped_2018

Agenda
◈ Introductions
◈ Open Education: What and How?
◈ What are OEP and open pedagogy?
 Your thoughts
 Themes, benefits, challenges
◈ Connecting to your own practice
 1-2-4-all (worksheet, discussion)

Introductions
What do you hope to get out of
this workshop?

Open What?
Resources/
Cont ent

Courses

Pract ices/
Pedagogy

Open How?
Cost

Free
or
Minimal cost

License
Reuse as is
or
Revisable

Technical

Accessibility

Participation/
Connection

Tools & tech
skills needed
to revise/reuse

Universal
Design for
Learning

Beyond this
individual
course

What are Open Edu Practices?
What is open pedagogy?
Your thoughts

Open Educational
Practices
Wider than open pedagogy

Open Edu
Practices

Open
Pedagogy

OEP includes “the creation,
use, and reuse of open
educational resources (OER)
as well as open pedagogies
and open sharing of teaching
practices.”
-- Cronin (2017), p. 16
See also my Oct. 2017 blog post on OEP

Some examples of OEP
◈ Use, revision & creation of OER; advocating these
◈ Open reflection & sharing of teaching ideas, practices,
process
◈ Open enrollment courses
◈ Open scholarship
-- Open Practices Briefing Paper
(Beetham et al., 2012)

Open access logo from PLoS, licensed CC BYSA 3.0 on Wikimedia Commons

Open Pedagogy
Teaching and learning in the open

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?”
-- D. Wiley, “OER-enabled pedagogy”

Reuse

Revise

Remix

Retain

Redistribute

Quotes re: Open Pedagogy
◈ “we shift the student emphasis to cont ribut ion to knowledge as
opposed to simple consumpt ion of knowledge” (Heather Ross)

◈ “the ability for learners t o shape and t ake ownership of their
own education” (Devon Ritter)

◈ “connect with a broader, global communit y” (Tannis Morgan)
◈ “teacher as ‘the’ aut horit y vs. students being able to bring other
sources of authority” (Jim Luke)

Open
Pedagogy
Themes

Collaborate

Access
Contribute

Connect

Access
E.g., cost, accessibility, bandwidth, misgendering …

DeRosa & Jhangiani, 2017

Collaborate

Contribute

Connect

◈ Students create,

◈ Participation of

◈ Co-create

not just consume

curriculum

◈ Non-disposable

people outside
the course
⬥ Blogs
⬥ Social media
⬥ Annotations

◈ Share authority

◈ Flexibility ➔

student choice,
agency
◈ Transparency

assignments;
contributions to
public knowledge
◈ Adapt, create,

◈ Community

share OER

partners

How are all these things “open”?
Reducing or crossing barriers & boundaries

Instructor

Learner

Course

Transparency

Open Pedagogy
Examples

Wiki Education Foundation

Brochure covers
licensed CC BY-SA,
available from
WikiEdu

Students & Open Textbooks

Cover licensed CC BY 4.0
see book here

Jacobs 1 house by Frank Lloyd Wright; image by James
Steakley; Wikimedia Commons; licensed CC BY-SA 4.0

Students contributing to other OER

cases.open.ubc.ca

Hypothes.is

Students contributing to curriculum
◈ Creating assignments, exam questions, tutorials:
⬥ DS106 assignment bank
⬥ UDG Agora
⬥ Rajiv Jhangiani’s Social Psychology course
⬥ Student video tutorials in Digital Photography course

◈ Students creating learning outcomes, assignments,
grading policies: Robin DeRosa’s First Year Seminar

Benefits & Challenges
of Open Pedagogy
Discussion in small groups

“open pedagogy is an ethos that has two …
components:
• A belief in the potential of openness and sharing to
improve learning
• A social just ice orientation – caring about equit y,
with openness as one way to achieve this”
-- Maha Bali, “What is Open Pedagogy?”(2017)

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 of Keene State 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

Student perceptions: challenges
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

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

How can we be sure
we’re not exploiting
students to create
resources for courses
without pay?
-- UBC student

OEP/Open Pedagogy in your context
1-2-4-all
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Worksheet individually
Discuss any part of worksheet in pairs
Two pairs discuss together
Share back with full group

Thank you!
W eb: http://chendricks.org
Blog: http://blogs.ubc.ca/chendricks
Twit t er: @chendricksUBC @clhendricksbc
Slides: http://is.gd/mru_openped_2018

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