MAY 4 , 2017HEATHER M. ROSS

GWENNA MOSS CENTRE FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING

UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN

Open Pedagogy

ActivitiesDiscussion

Sharing idea

Creating

Finding

IntroductionsKey TermsWhy OER?Open at USaskFinding OERAncillary ResourcesAdaptationsOpen PedagogyLicensing WorkSupport

Overview

Introductions

Key Terms

Creative CommonsOpen Educational Resources (OER)Open TextbooksOpen Pedagogy

Creative Commons

OER?

Open Educational Resources (OERs) are any type of educational materials that are in the public domain or introduced with an open license. The nature of these open materials means that anyone can legally and freely copy, use, adapt and re-share them. OERs range from textbooks to curricula, syllabi, lecture notes, assignments, tests, projects, audio, video and animation.” - UNESCO

Open Textbooks

Instructor written*AdaptableAvailable for most large first year courses+

Open Pedagogy

Students revise, remix, develop, and share learning materials

Individual or collaborationMove away from “disposable” assignments

Why Use OER?

AdaptableSharable“Free”

Adaptable

Minor to major changesCombine with existing materials

Photographs Music Assignments Textbooks

Sharable

Students, other educators, and publicRepositoriesOpen websites

“Free”

Replace expensive commercial textsFunding from:

Governments (SK, AB, BC) Foundations (Hewlett, Gates) Institutions (including “in-kind”)

The Academic Impact

Purchase an older edition of the textbookDelay purchasing the textbookNever purchase the textbook

66.6% Not purchase the required textbook

47.6% Take fewer courses

45.5% Not register for a specific course

37.6% Earn a poor grade

26.1% Drop a course

19.8% Fail a course

In your academic career, has the cost of required textbooks caused you to:

http://www.openaccesstextbooks.org/pdf/2016_Florida_Student_Textbook_Survey.pdf

Open Textbooks at USask

At least 13 being used in 2016-17 Saving students $275,000+ Agriculture, Arts & Science, ESB, Nursing, VetMed

5 in production Arts & Science and Engineering Funding available to support adaptations & adoptions

STAY TUNED …

Why Open Pedagogy?

QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER PART 1

Activity

Questions to Consider Part 1

What do you like about your current textbook? What are the necessities for your students? In other words, what can you not give up? 

What do you dislike about your current textbook? List everything that you do not like. Let’s assume that if you came to hear about open textbooks and other OER that you do not like the cost of a textbook. What else? 

What is the least you can live with for your first round of teaching with OER? In other words, what is the lowest benchmark you can set and still face your students?

– Alyson Indrunas https://spokeandhub.wordpress.com/2017/03/25/adapt-adopt-build-hospitality-oer/

Finding OER

http://teaching.usask.ca/curriculum/open-pedagogy.php

MeLibraryDistance Education Unit (DEU)

Activity

FIND OER FOR YOUR COURSE

10 MINUTES (REALLY, JUST 10 MINUTES)

Take a Break

Ancillary Resources

What came with your commercial text? Test bank questions Slides Homework systems

What do you NEED?What can you create? What can students

create?

Adapting OER

What resource are you adapting?Do you want to make small changes or big

ones?Do you want to combine OER?What licenses do the resources have?Is there someone with whom you can / should

be collaborating? (don’t forget students!)

Creative Commons

Adapting an Open Textbook

Work with your colleaguesWork with a support unit

Instructional design assistance Technology assistance

Pressbooks (for books) Open source Plugin for Wordpress WYSIWYG editor Hosted at USask

OPENPRESS.USASK.CA Screen Shot. Source: http://openpress.usask.ca/, 2016.

If you have a well-fleshed out project we can set up an account for you on our OpenPress site.

Pressbooks Work Area Screen Shot. Source: https://usaskopenpress.pressbooks.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=20&action=edit, 2016.

What about this …

QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER PART 2

Activity

Questions to Consider Part 2

What could your students do to contribute to your course? In other words, do you have an assignment where students could create content for your future students? Let’s talk about open pedagogy.– Alyson Indrunas https://spokeandhub.wordpress.com/2017/03/25/adapt-adopt-build-hospitality-oer/

Lunch!

Open Pedagogy

Open Pedagogy

Open pedagogy takes OER as a jumping-off point for rethinking the relationship between teachers, students, and knowledge. If teachers and students can now modify their textbooks and learning materials, we shift the student emphasis to contribution to knowledge as opposed to simple consumption of knowledge. Teachers and students become learners together, and "content" becomes a dynamic, always changing category with which we engage rather than a stable set of facts to be mastered. (DeRosa)

Open Pedagogy

Students revise, remix, develop, and share learning materials

Individual or collaborationMove away from “disposable” assignments

MATCH THE DISCIPLINE TO THE ACTIVITY

Activity

Match the Discipline to the Activity

Examples Students blogging Students creating

educational podcasts Student contributions

to open textbooks Students creating /

editing Wikipedia articles

Students contributing entries to wiki to be used as textbook by others

Disciplines Chemistry Education Geography Kinesiology Law Literature

Match the Discipline to the Activity

• Chemistry - Students contributed entries to a wiki on the subject for they and other learners to use as a textbook (ChemWiki) - http://chem.libretexts.org/

*Education – blogging to share resources*Geography - student contributions to an

open textbook (GEOG 130)

Match the Discipline to the Activity

Literature – *Students reviewing Wikipedia entries Students editing Wikipedia articles - 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Murder_Madness_and_Mayhem

Student contributions to an open textbook - https://openamlit.pressbooks.com/

*Law - students creating / editing Wikipedia articles - http://jle.aals.org/home/vol65/iss3/6/

Discussion

What assignment are you going to redesign to integrate open pedagogy?

REDESIGN YOUR ASSIGNMENT

Activity

Licensing Work (Back to Creative Commons)

Support

MeDistance Education Unit (DEU)LibraryMedia Production

Final Questions

Thank You!

Ticket Out The Door