Open Pedagogy Toolkit: Module 1

Introduction
What is Open Pedagogy?
Forms of Open Pedagogy
Benefits of Open Pedagogy
Challenges of Implementing
Reflection
Readings AND rESOURCES

Some Final Thoughts

OP can support educators in creating inclusive, student-centered learning environments that reflect the characteristics of openness, access, and deeper student involvement. Building professional development opportunities and collaborative communities of practice, as well as aligning OP with institutional goals are recommendations from practitioners and researchers to infuse OP into our institutions.

In this module, we introduced you to OP, discussed different formats and ways it could show up in your teaching, and highlighted some of the benefits. While there may be some challenges with implementing OP, through these readings and activities, we hope to help you work through them. In the next module, we will help identify your core values and help rewrite learning outcomes and objectives to highlight these values and align them with OP.aborative, or renewable? How might you adapt it based on some of the ideas you read about?

Reflection

Below are several reflection prompts to enable you to dig deeper into the concepts from this chapter and explore possible connections to your teaching. You may answer any or all of these questions. The final question invites you to add your ideas to your implementation plan.

  1. What philosophical ideas or values about OP resonate most with you as an educator (e.g., equity, agency, democratization of knowledge)? Why? What role do you see for that value in your teaching?
  2. Describe a moment in your teaching where students already act as co-creators, collaborators, or contributors. How do they respond to this active role?
  3. How might OP shift the power dynamics in your classroom?
  4. What concerns or questions do you have about implementing OP? How might you leverage your local teaching and learning community to seek answers?
  5. What is one small, realistic next step you could take to explore OP in your teaching?
  6. Add ideas to your implementation plan: Identify one assignment in your course that you may want to transform to be more open, collaborative, or renewable? How might you adapt it based on some of the ideas you read about?
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