Open Pedagogy is an evolving practice, but can be briefly characterized as “the practice of engaging with students as creators of information rather than simply consumers of it. It’s a form of experiential learning in which students demonstrate understanding through the act of creation” (Introduction to Open Pedagogy, UTA Libraries, https://libguides.uta.edu/openped).

The KCC Open Pedagogy Fellowship serves as a teaching and learning development opportunity for Kingsborough faculty and students. The goal of the fellowship is to introduce faculty and students to the worlds of open education and open pedagogy, and to encourage faculty and students to employ these practices in their educational work.

The fellowship has evolved since its founding in various ways, to try to respond to the interests and needs of KCC’s students and faculty. What stays constant is the idea of faculty fellows meeting together with student fellows to learn about, discuss, and experiment with open pedagogy, culminating in faculty fellows creating and openly licensing a set of open pedagogy assignments, resources or teaching tools, which they share through CUNY Academic Works.  Fellows meet to discuss readings on open pedagogy and critical digital pedagogy, as well as to examine and explore existing open education tools and platforms.  Meetings also include time for fellows to receive feedback on their open pedagogy projects, discuss their progress, and plan for piloting and revising their projects. 

Our Open Pedagogy Student Fellow participates in all meetings to ensure student perspectives are a central part of discussions. The student provides advice and feedback to members of the faculty cohort on their open pedagogy projects. Both student and faculty fellows will be responsible for blogging their experience and process in the fellowship blog on this site. We encourage faculty to explore this site to see what prior fellows have created and shared.

Participation is open to all instructors at the college, and fellows will receive a stipend upon completion of the fellowship and the deposit of their open education projects into the CUNY Academic Works OER Repository.  

If you have questions regarding the fellowship, please contact Kingsborough’s Open Education Coordinator, Professor Shawna Brandle, at [email protected].