Spring 2021 Open Pedagogy Fellowship

Click Here for Final Versions of the Spring 2021 OPF Cohort Open Assignments

Seminar Meeting #1 – March 19th (12:30pm – 2:00pm)

Agenda for Meeting #1:  What is Open Pedagogy, and What Can We Do with It?

  • Estimated Time: 1.5 hours
  • Cohort Introductions
  • Overview of CUNY Academic Commons
  • Discuss Meeting #1 Materials – “What is Open”?
  • Share sample assignments

Tasks for Meeting #2:

  • Find and share a reading, video, resource or activity for our next meeting. These can be about open pedagogy, about our educational systems, about pedagogical practices in your respective fields, etc. Please send to Ryan by April 5th and they will then be posted to our Commons Site.
  • Please compose two blog posts. One post should reflect on your initial thoughts about pedagogy and any discoveries you had after our first meeting; the other should reflect on your initial thoughts about potential open assignments for your course(s).
  • Please also read and comment on at least one other fellows’ blog post.
  • Begin your preliminary drafts of three Open Assignments. These can be very informal sketches, bullet points, fragments but something to get each of us started in thinking through potential open assignments.

Preparation for Seminar Meeting #2 (4/23/21 @ 12:30pm)

Thank you so much for a great meeting today (3/19/21) and for a very inspiring conversation. I will send this information out via email as well, but I wanted to create a post that includes the information that we covered at the end of today’s meeting:

  • As a reminder, our next two seminar meetings will be on 4/23 and 5/21 at 12:30pm.
  • For our April meeting, please prepare the following:
    • Find and share a reading, video, resource or activity for our next meeting. These can be about open pedagogy, about our educational systems, about pedagogical practices in your respective fields, etc. Please send to Ryan by April 5th and they will then be posted to our Commons Site.
    • Please compose two blog posts. One post should reflect on your initial thoughts about pedagogy and any discoveries you had after our first meeting; the other should reflect on your initial thoughts about potential open assignments for your course(s).
    • Please also read and comment on at least one other fellows’ blog post.
    • Begin your preliminary drafts of three Open Assignments. These can be very informal sketches, bullet points, fragments but something to get each of us started in thinking through potential open assignments.

Here are some links that might be helpful as we continue our exploration of Open Pedagogy:

  • Here is the link to the Open Assignments that I created during my Open Pedagogy Fellowship in the Spring of 2020.
  • Here is the link to the CUNY Academic Works so you can view other Open Educational Resources.
  • Here is a link to an excellent guide from the University of Michigan that gives a very clear overview of the 6 major Creative Commons licenses.

Thank you again for all of your work and collaboration. I look forward to continuing the conversation in April!

Seminar Meeting #2 – April 23rd (12:30pm – 2:00pm)

Materials to Review for Meeting #2:

  • Review some of the resources found by the fellowship cohort in preparation for this week. they are posted below under “Cohort Resources for Meeting #2.”

Agenda for Meeting #2:  Open Tools, Open Assignments & Assignment Workshops

Estimated Time: 1.5 hours

Check-In’s/Questions

Introduction to Open Pedagogy Tools: Manifold, OER Libraries, DOAJ, DOAB, Open Library of Humanities, DPLA, CUNY Academic Works

Breakout rooms for 2 faculty and 1 student fellow to give feedback on each others’ drafts

Cohort Resources for Meeting #2:

Work to do before Meeting #3:

  • Compose two blog posts:
    • One post should reflect on a new tool, database or resource that you have discovered recently and are interested in using in your open pedagogical practices; the other should reflect on your open assignments and how they are going to continue to develop after receiving feedback from fellow cohort members.
  • Revised Drafts of Three Open Assignments. Prepare to present all three assignments at our final meeting.
  • Read and comment on at least one other fellows’ blog post.

MEETING #3: Friday, May 21, 2021 (12:30pm – 2:00pm)

Materials to Review for Meeting #3:

  • Drafts of Open Assignments

Agenda for Meeting #3: Presentation of Open Assignment Drafts

  • Estimated Time: 2 hours
  • Faculty Fellow Presentation of their Revised Assignments (15 minutes each) & feedback from whole group

Work to do after meeting:

  • Revise assignments, share to CUNY Academic Commons or CUNY Open Ed. Also please link to our CUNY Academic Commons site
  • Wrap Up Blog (Timeline Blog from each fellow)
  • Optional:  Post-pilot blog after you use the assignments in class