The Transformative Potential of Open Pedagogy...• Open Google Docs • Open Access published articles • Open Datasets • Open Lab notebooks and Methods ... Students can work with

The Transformative Potential of Open Pedagogy

Dr. Karen CangialosiDept of Biology

Keene State CollegeKeene, NH USA

@karencang

Study of 86,000 students at 123 two and four year institutions across the U.S. April 2019

• Food Insecure: 45%

• Housing Insecure: 56%

• Homeless: 17%

21,000 students in the study

Open Educational Resources by Ron Mader [CC BY 2.0]

• Free(for students)

OER

Synthesizes results from 36 studies involving 121,168 students. Students achieve the same or better learning outcomes when using OER.

• Improved end-of-course grades and decreased DFW rates for all students

• Reduction in DFW rates for minority and Pell eligible students

• Lower course withdrawal rates

Students in Courses using OER compared to non-OER

OpenStax

LibreTexts

• “Traditional” OER as textbook (e.g. pressbooks)

• Ancillary materials: test banks, study guides, lesson plans, etc

• Curated links on websites• Open Google Docs• Open Access published articles • Open Datasets• Open Lab notebooks and Methods

repositories• Open Videos• Open Lab Simulations• Open Source software/tools• and more…

Popsicles by Colored Pencil Magazine [CC BY 2.0]

OER

• At Keene State College, we use OER and other free resources for nearly ALL Biology courses. We have collectively saved our students about $250,000 over the last 4 years.

• Many Colleges and Universities have already saved students MILLIONS of dollars in textbooks costs.

Free as in “Free Beer”

Photo by Elliot Bledsoe [CC BY 2.0]

Free But Not Open

Creative Commons licenses explained©Foter (adapted by Jisc) via Foter blogCC BY-SA

The Open License

Not just “free”, but Open.

• Reuse• Revise• Remix• Redistribute• Retain

FREE as in Freedom (the 5 R’s)

“Using OER the same way we used commercial textbooks misses the point. It’s like driving an airplane down the road.” – David Wiley

Open Educational Resources by Ron Mader [CC BY 2.0]

• Digital• Multimedia• Downloadable• Adaptable• Current• Public• Openly Licensed• Free

OER

Open Pedagogyis about

Access and Agency

Students DesignLearning Structures

Knowledge

KnowledgeCreation

KnowledgeSharing

Community Connections & Collaboration

food, housing, gas, laptops, captions, safety, ETC.

Students as knowledge creators

• “Traditional” OER as textbook (e.g. OpenStax)

• Ancillary materials: test banks, etc.• Curated links on websites• Open Google Docs• Open Videos• Case studies• Open Labs, simulations, animations• Open Source software/tools• Open Access published articles • Open Datasets• Open Lab notebooks, Methods

repositories• and more…

Open Pedagogy

Lollipops by Andrew Malone [CC BY 2.0]

Modified from original image by Craig Froehle

Beyond Equity

Open Pedagogy?OER

Adoption and Impact of OER in the Global South. Editor(s): Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams and Patricia B. Arinto (2017)

Domain of

One’s Own

“Contribute to, not just consume from, the knowledge commons”-Robin DeRosa

Audience Beyond the Professor

Interactive – Collaborative – Contributory – Dynamic – Participatory – Empowering

• Students create, remix and openly license work that is shared with others.

• Student work lives on past the end of the semester (if they want it to).

Non-Disposable Assignments

Open Google Docs for sharing & working collaboratively on the web

Student-Created OER

2017 class

• Students create content on their domain spaces

2019 class

• Add content from domain spaces

• Curate and edit content from 2017 & 2019; create pressbook

2017 Alumni

• Further edit Pressbook Content

• Add new content

• Write the intro, title

• Reorganize chapters

Beyond the walls of the classroom

https://edu.ifixit.com Students writing Open Repair Manuals

Web Annotation for Community & Collaboration

Twitter

Linked-In

#KSCBio

Shift Learning from transaction to Dialogue with Peers, Professionals, Academics, Future Employers, the Public

Wiki Education Foundation

[CC BY SA]

Creating/Editing Wikipedia Articles

Medical students at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine edit Wikipedia articles

http://mediashift.org/2016/05/why-you-and-your-students-should-work-to-improve-wikipedia/

#Envision2030 at Keene State: Wiki Scholars with Wiki Education

Citizen Science and Open Pedagogy

Students write about local contamination sites and potential consequences to humans and wildlife

#SciComm

Open Pedagogy as Public Service

Students Using Open Data toAddress Critical Questions

Open Pedagogy

Come for the OER, Stay for the Pedagogy

Students can work with faculty to:

• Create Content

• Write the syllabus

• Write the attendance policy

• Create learning outcomes

• Determine what goes on during class

• Design assignments

• Decide what work they want to make public or openly license

• Determine how they will be graded

Trust, Power, and Agency

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“Anxiety" by ASweeneyPhoto CC (BY-NC)

More than 60% of college students (in a study of 88,000) said they had experienced “overwhelming anxiety” in the past year, according to a 2018 report from the American College Health Association.

Over 40% said they felt so depressed they had difficulty functioning.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/education/learning/mental-health-counseling-on-campus.html

In 1985, 18% of college-bound seniors said they “frequently” felt “overwhelmed by all I had to do” during senior year of high school.

That number had increased to 41% by 2016.

Source: https://willowresearch.com/gen-z/

An atmosphere that places greater value on “achievement” than on learning

Standardized tests and assessments that suck the life out of learning

Surveillance systems that track, monitor, punish, and insist on compliance

“a stay of execution”

“students just know how to work the system”

“students will cheat if they can get away with it”

“they are grade-grubbers”

“they don’t know anything we taught them at the 100 level”

Stop Blaming Students

Student Anxiety,Financial stress, Powerlessness

Open Pedagogy:Student Trust, Agency, and Empowerment

Open Pedagogy: Students Create and Share knowledge

Other Systemic Problems: -Economic-Environmental -Social and Cultural

Systemic issues in Education: -Standardization-Grades-Focus-Surveillance-High Cost

OER:Cost Savings

“When my students gain access to knowledge, I want it to be part of a larger

invitation: we trust that you have important lessons to teach the world, and we trust

that the knowledge you access today will be changed by your perspective, that you

will open doors to new ideas that we, your current teachers, never could have taught you.” – Robin DeRosa, University of the Margins

“Open is a process, not a panacea”

-Robin DeRosa

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Don’t start with the tools

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• What are some ways to make education more accessible and equitable for all students? (Open for whom?)

• How do we authentically give our students voice and power in the design of learning structures?

• How can we take a critical approach when choosing tools and help protect student privacy and data ownership?

• How do we help the public see the value in what our students are achieving?

• How can we provide transformational (not just transactional) experiences for our students?

Trolls!

Fake News!

Stuff that’s wrong!

Stuff that’s irrelevant!(Who cares what you had for dinner?)

Students will go online ANYWAY; they will have a digital

presence WITH or WITHOUT your guidance.

Is it responsible to “just say no” to:

• Smartphone use?

• Using social media?

• Reading, posting and interacting on the web?

If faculty and staff in higher education don’t guide students to think about digital citizenship and their digital footprint – who will?

“Our students are not just going on the web, they are constructing it.”

-Martha Burtis

"This is How The Web is Made“ by cogdogbloghttps://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/16248316055 [CC BY 2.0]

From Data Feminism, D’Ignazio and Klein, MIT Press Open

“What if we imagined teaching data as a place to start creating the connected, collective, caring world that we want to see?”

-Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein

https://bookbook.pubpub.org/data-feminism

This work by Karen Cangialosi is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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