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…

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I hate the idea of a last meeting, not sure why I marked it down as such in my calendar instead of using Shawna’s neutral formula – “meeting # 3”. I really hope we continue to meet and discuss these issues as we work our way through open pedagogy! Working as a team this past semester has been really inspirational for me and one of the OP lessons I’m taking from here is that my students too will enjoy working as a group towards a joint goal, for instance designing new and lasting materials for themselves and their peers but also…

From all of the great discussions we have had in this group stemming from the amazing articles found to our own experiences, I find that my ultimate goal is to develop and cultivate an assignment bank. I realize that within the Commons, we will be adding assignments to the greater good and have so many at our finger tips to work off of, but as far as my own set of courses, I want ones that maneuver and flow through them all. The three that I have created, which I look forward to trying out, I realize can be used in more than one of my classes. Originally I was…

One thing I always appreciate about working alongside colleagues that are from a different discipline is the objectivity that is inherent. When creating assignments, especially ones that are outside the norm and fall into this open education pedagogy, it is easy to fall down the rabbit hole and not see the entire process from beginning to end. AND especially with working on something so new. Working alongside someone who you are “presenting” this idea to keeps you in check. Even from the moment of speaking it out loud, red flags went up for me that steps were unclear and not specific enough. In addition, someone who may or may not…

It was definitely nice seeing all of us together welcoming another year. We were able to discuss all our reading and express or add on to each other’s thoughts. As a student fellow, I was able to learn more about the different assignments that both professors created for their assignment. Both did an amazing job because I saw that not only were they creating assignments where they were able to collaborate and learn vs creating an assignment where you will do it and then forget about it. In addition, they both had in mind how the assignments will work in perspective as a student. Honestly, they did a perfect job…

My experience so far about the fellowship has been amazing. I was able to know about the opportunity through my psychology class where my professor emailed the whole class about an opportunity to work with professors. I immediately applied because during the summer I interned virtually helping professors transition to distance-learning. Some came in during the google meet desperate to know what will work best for their students and the professor. I think this fellowship is an opportunity that I will always remember because despite the circumstances it has allowed us to learn from each other and express our thoughts as a student and a professor. 

“How to Harness the Tremendous Potential of Open Education Resources” is an article I found by Dan McDowell. McDowell discusses open and explains how Open education is broader than cost effective learning but it’s as way to expand learning curriculum for student. In this article McDowell offers some insight to open education and some guiding lessons! https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/opinion-how-to-harness-the-tremendous-potential-of-open-education-resources/2020/01

I took some time to ask my fellow college students what are some things they wished their professors knew about them. And decided to make a blog post about it! Here are some things that they mentioned: 1. “I wish professors knew how helpful it is for us when they share case studies from their own experience, based on what their teaching. E.g. if they’re teaching law – talking about how what they’re teaching us helped them or was applied in a case they were part of. It’s inspiring and gives them legitimacy in the eyes of a student.” 2. “I wish professors knew how helpful it is when they…

While I really wanted to uncover an article that is more recent, I was immediately taken by the structure and purpose of this piece and how the case-study that is analyzed was based out of a Community College. Full disclosure: I am not a statistical person and don’t usually respond well to charts and numbers. This study however, from Tidewater Community College in Virginia, aims at how revolutionizing the status quo of traditional textbook use can spring students and institutions into a new way of learning. Their newly-launched (in 2015-2016) “ZERO” Degree program where all courses within the degree requirement set their textbook expectations with OER’s and NO cost to…

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.…