(Disclaimer: Opinions are mine.) At the University of Wisconsin-Extension CEOEL, I work on a competency-based micro-credentialing program called the University Learning Store(ULS). It was conceived of as an online store for learning, where students can purchase mini-courses both to acquire and to be assessed on discreet competencies. I suspect there will be more programs like the […]
Student-Created Group Genetics Worksheet
In this assignment students first look up a genetic condition in Genetics Home Reference (which is a public domain site maintained by the National Institute of Health). Then they give a description of the condition and make a problem based on the condition for other students to solve. Right now it is a Google document, […]
Student-Created Open “Textbooks” as Course Communities
I have found that my most rewarding practices in Open have involved creating OERs with students. This short post will gather together some of my writings and examples related to student-created OERs. I started this work by building The Open Anthology of American Literature with a group of undergraduates and recent alums from Plymouth State […]
Why have students answer questions when they can write them?
I recently trialled a new assignment in my Social Psychology class: During each of the 10 weeks when there was no scheduled exam I asked my students to write multiple-choice questions. That’s right, they wrote questions instead of merely answering them. From a pedagogical perspective, I really wanted my students to achieve a deeper level of understanding (e.g., the level it […]
Create an Open Textbook
Below is an example of an open textbook creation project assigned by professor Anna Andrzejewski at University of Wisconsin. While this assignment is specific to Art History, it could easily be adapted to other disciplines and your own classroom learning objectives. Assignment #2 followed an earlier project in which each student focused on a phase […]
Expand an Open Textbook
Below is a teaching guide from Dr. Julie Ward at University of Oklahoma for instructors wishing to expand an existing open textbook project in their classes. While this project is specific to Spanish literature, the advice is relevant to similar projects in other disciplines. CRITICAL EDITION ASSIGNMENT IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE Welcome to the Antología Abierta de Literatura Hispana (AALH) team! […]
Using Practices of Open Pedagogy in My Biology Courses
I redesigned several of the biology courses that I teach at Keene State College to incorporate principles of open pedagogy, open science, connected learning and social justice. Using a combination of websites that I’ve created and publicly open modules in the Canvas LMS, I provide my students with general principles and more specific ‘how to’ […]
Murder, Madness, and Mayhem
The University of British Columbia‘s class SPAN312 (“Murder, Madness, and Mayhem: Latin American Literature in Translation”) contributed to Wikipedia during Spring 2008. The collective goals were to bring a selection of articles on Latin American literature to featured article status (or as near as possible). By project’s end, they had contributed three featured articles and […]
