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In Sections A and B, the Roadmap focused on you as the project planner. Section C is designed to help you focus on the students you’ll collaborate with.
Sections A and B asked you to consider the big picture regarding the scope and support for your project. You have already determined the content and a possible process for this work, but in Section C, we want you to refine your thinking further. Open pedagogy is an opportunity to move beyond content mastery to developing content-agnostic knowledge practices and dispositions. Can you make outcomes less focused on content and more on the process? How do you intend to assess the results? It may help to consider your project within the Typology of Open Educational Practices developed by Bali, Cronin, and Jhangiani (2020).
This kind of open pedagogy work might be completely new and unfamiliar for students and may cause anxiety for them. As you think about potential authentic audiences students will be engaging with. How you might be assessing their work, the Open Pedagogy and Student Discomfort model can help you anticipate how students might react to the challenge level you’re inviting them to collaborate in and how you might adjust to address those feelings (Hofer et al., 2021).
Module C1: Student Outcomes & Assessment
It can be easy to get swept away in the excitement of open pedagogy projects and lose sight of the power imbalances between instructors and students. There is a lot of labor involved in this work, and we must be mindful of respecting the labor of all those involved. If we fail to do this, open pedagogy becomes a transactional relationship rather than a genuine collaboration.
Many great resources are available to help inform and check your thinking so that Many great resources respect everyone involved. In particular, we suggest looking at A Student Collaborators’ Bill of Rights developed by UCLA’s Digital Humanities Program, 5Rs for Open Pedagogy, Student Selection of Content Licenses in OER-enabled Pedagogy, and Open Pedagogy at the Margins: Critical Perspectives on Open Education. Also, consider looking to other institutions for examples of best practices around FERPA, student rights, and open pedagogy.
Module C2: Student Agency and Ethical Concerns
"The Open Pedagogy Project Roadmap" by Christina Riehman-Murphym and Bryan McGeary is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.