This year, I am part of faculty group tasked with designing, piloting, and assessing a new capstone to our General Education program. We are imagining this capstone as an “integrated” course, one that brings together students from a range of majors to work in multidisciplinary groups on an outward-facing project. In our initial meeting, the […]
How Public? Why Public?
In the Interdisciplinary Studies program where I have begun working, we encourage students to go public with their work. It’s a common idea well beyond interdisciplinary studies: for students to feel more engaged with the work they do, to feel that what they are doing matters, they need to do that work for an audience […]
Open Education, Justice, and Learning Strategies – What’s the Connection?
As a Learning Strategist, a key part of my role is to facilitate students’ development as they grow in their understanding of learning processes. This allows me to witness barriers students face on their learning journey, working with them to move beyond these barriers towards their learning goals. A common question I hear from many […]
The Time is Now: A Call to Open History
This essay was originally posted on ActiveHistory.ca I’ve been a rather slow convert to the open-access movement. Though ActiveHistory.ca operates under a Creative Commons Attribution, non-commercial ShareALike copyright license whereby you’re free to repost this (or any other essay you find here) so long as you provide us with attribution and do not profit, […]
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Open Pedagogy Assignments
Montgomery College is fully committed to social justice and innovation through its focus on open pedagogy. Faculty from various disciplines and across campuses at the institution are working in teams to create several renewable assignments (which have a Creative Commons license) for deployment in their courses. The conceptual framework on which this work is based […]
Editing Wikipedia in the Classroom: Individualized Open Pedagogy at Scale
Strada and Gallup released a study last month, From College to Life: Relevance and the Value of Higher Education, which seeks to understand students’ perspectives on the value of their higher education. It’s the first national study of its kind, drawing data from more than 250,000 interviews with people from more than 3,000 educational programs. Subjects, […]
Open and Closed: The Class That Sank
I teach at a small liberal arts college in central New Hampshire as a Teaching Lecturer. It is one of the best parts of my life—I have the opportunity to work with college students, deepen my understanding as a writer, and am afforded the support of a caring and thoughtful department. With six classes of […]
What Open Education Taught Me
A Keene State College undergraduate reflects on her experiences with Open Education: So…for those of you just joining me on this 16 week journey through Tropical Marine Biology (and our 9 day trip to Turks and Caicos in 2 days), you might be wondering what all these blog posts are about, and why are we doing […]
The Open Patchbooks
The Open Faculty Patchbook is a community ‘patchwork’ of teaching skills and experiences. Each ‘patch’ has been written by a professor in higher education and is focused on one particular pedagogical skill. Together, these patches create a how-to-teach manual for higher education that is openly licensed and available to anyone. As mentioned, each chapter covers […]
Redesigning a Leadership Course
I have discovered you can be planning open pedagogy and not even know it! I am excited to have been working with a colleague, Kaitlin Kozlowski, to redesign and co-teach a Nursing Leadership course. We began with a discussion about what learning experience we wanted our students to have. We decided the key element would […]
