Module 7 OEP & Pedagogy Overview

The compliment to OER (Open Educational Resources) is Open Education Pedagogy (OEP). There are multiple conceptions of just what Open Education Pedagogy is, and you will find varying opinions of what it means. There are essentially four existing definitions describe by (Werith and Willimas 2022) as open design, Open Content, open assessment, OER-Enabled Pedagogy for Open pedagogy. These are compared to the elements of transparency, sharing, personalized learning, learner empowerment, deconstruction traditional power structures and collaborative knowledge construction.

In this module, we will discuss three definitions and elements we use at Utah Tech, OER-enabled pedagogy which for our purposes we are labeling Open Pedagogy, Open design labeled Open Education Practices, and the element of Learner Empowered/Deconstruction traditional power structures which for our purposes we have labeled Learner Driven Open Pedagogy.

The first idea for Open Education Pedagogy (OEP) involves the distribution of your educational materials with different licenses for distribution. Thereby giving other educators the opportunity to use previously created material in their teaching capacities. This is similar to the Open Education Resources we have been discussing in the previous modules. You create a curriculum plan and open it for others to use.

The second idea of Open education pedagogy is more about the material within the course. For our purposes, we labeled this aspect of OEP as Open Education Practices rather than pedagogy. This idea of open is about providing students the opportunity to learn content by helping to create it. This can be done by having them write test questions and create collaborative research papers used in other courses and more.

The third idea of OEP that this module will cover is the idea of giving students open opportunities to design their own curriculum to meet the learning objectives for the course. This concept of OEP is more learner driven and the name we have used to label it is Learner Driven Open Education. This method can be complicated and overwhelming for the students, especially new college students, so it is usually found in advance or graduate level courses. It is used when students have a higher sense of responsibility for their own learning process. In this modules we will discuss how to create modified versions of student driven open educational pedagogy to use with undergraduate type courses.

For more information regarding the fluid nature of Open Pedagogy see. https://slejournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40561-022-00191-0

Objectives

Identify ways to contribute to the open education community.

Attribution

This module is adapted from Open Educational Resources Online Training by Nathan Smith, Houston Community College is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

https://slejournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40561-022-00191-0

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