Open Pedagogy

Badass womxn in the Pacific Northwest

By UWB Zine Queenz (2019)

"This zine is the collective efforts of the students in my spring 2019 class 'Rad Womxn in the Global South' (AKA 'Badass Womxn in the Global South') at the University of Washington Bothell (UWB). Every student in the class found a badass womxn, femme, or enbie (non-binary person) from the Pacific Northwest to research and had to write a very short essay capturing her/their life"--Preface

Critical Filipinx American Histories and their Artifacts

By Rick Bonus and UW AAS 360 2019 Students (2020)

The contents of this online book were created by Prof. Rick Bonus and his students as a final project for a course on “Critical Filipinx American Histories”. In collaboration with the UW Libraries, the UW Burke Museum, and the UW Department of American Ethnic Studies, this book explores and reflects on the relationships between Filipinx American histories and selected artifacts at the Burke Museum.

Telling Our Stories: Student Experiences at UW Tacoma

By TCOM 347: Television Criticism (2019)

A collection of video stories and reflections, created by undergraduate students. Students worked in teams to document and produce short digital stories highlighting the experiences of other UW-Tacoma students with regards to one or various aspects of their identity, whether related to race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, disability, place of origin, etc.

The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature

By Robin DeRosa (2015)

This is an anthology of public domain texts from earlier American literature, collected by students, faculty, and alumnae of Plymouth State University as an OER alternative to expensive commercial anthologies. The project is now developing through the Rebus Community.

Environmental ScienceBites

Eds. Kylienne A. Clark, Travis R. Shaul, and Brian H. Lower

This book was written by undergraduate students at The Ohio State University (OSU) who were enrolled in the class Introduction to Environmental Science. The chapters describe some of Earth’s major environmental challenges and discuss ways that humans are using cutting-edge science and engineering to provide sustainable solutions.

Contemporary Families

By Elizabeth B. Pearce et al. (2020)

This openly licensed text, created with students, approaches contemporary families from an equity lens. It asks two questions: "What do families need?" and "How do society and institutions support or get in the way of families getting what they need?"

Spectacles in the Roman World

By Siobhán McElduff (2020)

This is a collection of primary sources on Roman games and spectacles in their various forms, created for a second-year undergraduate class on spectacles in Greece and Rome at the University of British Columbia.

Students write or edit Wikipedia articles

• Murder, Madness & Mayhem assigned students to edit (and if necessary create) Wikipedia articles about lesser known Latin American authors.
• Azzam assigned fourth-year medical students to edit and improve Wikipedia articles related to public health topics.
• See additional Wikipedia-based assignments here and here. Also, see this report that 6% of edits to science articles on Wikipedia in April 2016 were made by students.

Students remix audiovisual materials to both entertain and inform

• Blogs and Wikis combines existing video with new audio to describe the difference between blogs and wikis.
• Rick Noblenski: Blasting Caps Expert and Wiki Advocate combines existing video with new audio to advocate for the use of wikis in teaching.
• District Policies Regarding Blogs and Wikis combines existing video with new audio to warn teachers about how their desire to use social media may run afoul of school district policies.

Students create or revise/remix entire textbooks

• The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature was created by Robin DeRosa and her students.
• Project Management for Instructional Designers was created by David Wiley and his students as an adaptation of an existing open textbook written for a different audience.

Students openly license supplemental materials they create for each other

• Teachers at Mountain Heights Academy encourage students to create openly licensed study guides, review games, tutorial videos, and other materials which they review and integrate into their courses.

Students create test banks

• Jhangiani describes a Social Psychology course in which 35 students created over 1400 test questions for a quiz bank.

Students create their own assignments

• DS106 has students create (or remix) and share assignments, together with worked examples, difficulty ratings, and tutorials for how to successfully complete the assignment.

DeRosa, R. & Robison, S. “Open Pedagogy” (chapter in A Guide to Making Open Textbooks With Students).

Frequently cited introduction to open pedagogy, emphasizing student co-creation and public knowledge.

Wiley, D. & Hilton, J. (2018). “Defining OER-Enabled Pedagogy.” International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning.

Defines “renewable assignments” and lays out a framework for assignments enabled by open licenses.

Hegarty, B. (2015). “Attributes of Open Pedagogy: A Model for Using Open Educational Resources.” Educational Technology.

Proposes a widely used set of attributes for open pedagogical practice.

Katz, S. & Van Allen, J. (2022). “A Framework for the Design of Open Pedagogy Assignments.”

A design framework for renewable assignment projects (linked in UVA’s “How Do I Get Started with Open Pedagogy?” collection).

Open Pedagogy Notebook.

A community site with definitions, essays, and many examples of open assignments.

Open Pedagogy Portal (Open Education Network).

Case studies, student work, and assignment ideas curated for instructors.

Caulfield, M.

Essays on open pedagogy and “non-disposable assignments,” arguing for student work that contributes to the commons.

Brooklyn College Library – Open Pedagogy LibGuide.

A concise, library-focused introduction to open pedagogy as collaborative teaching practice.

DePauw University – Open Pedagogy LibGuide.

A clear definition and overview, plus links to practice-focused resources.