It was a great experience and I am very happy to have been part of this group. I enjoyed the reading, the conversations, and the students’ feedback. These discussions have helped me reshape some of my current assignments. With some changes, I was able to increase their effectiveness as the student would be able to share his/her content with others, hear the feedback, and then see how that example fits into the course content. I am sure that more improvements can be made and I hope to hear more of your feedback.

I have created some assignments that allow more active participation of students into the creation of the course content. I have split them into three groups: intentional individual contribution, intentional group contribution, and unintentional group contribution. The latter relates to some economic experiments that I can run in the course with the students and show how the findings of articles can be replicated. For example, there have been experiments on trust experiments, or dictatorship game. Articles show the theory prediction and their results from running the experiment. Students will see the results of running that some experiment in class. So, the discussion will continue on why that happened to them…

Hello everyone and Happy New Year! For the second meeting, I would like to share with you the article from Wiley and Hilton, “Defining OER-Enabled Pedagogy.” What I like most about this article is about the criteria shown in Table 1 on how to distinguish a disposable assignment from a renewable assignment. I am using this as a checklist when designing my open assignments. Through this renewable assignment we not only creating open assignments but also teaching our students how to be open as well. I think this is accomplished by the last criterion of making their completed assignment as openly licensed. I look forward to discussing this with you.…

Hello everyone! Allow me to first introduce myself. I am a faculty at the Business Department. I teach Macroeconomics and Microeconomics. For many years, I have adopted OER materials in my courses and have been very happy with students’ feedback. I am glad to be part of this team and learn more about open pedagogy and how adopt it in my teaching. I have been fascinated by the concept of “renewable assignment.” I think that students’ performance and engagement would increase if I allow them not only to contribute to an assignment, but share it outside the classrooms’ walls (physical or digital) and even open-licensed so they allow others to…