OER pedagogy

 

This week's reading talks about OER-enabled Pedagogy. The reading was really enlightening, so I learned a lot. There are a couple of ideas that I do like to talk about.

Wiley and Hilton's article mentioned a concept that I have never heard of before, namely Disposable Assignment. What? What are Disposable Assignments? That was my reaction when I first read the concept. Wiley and Hilton do a good job of explaining my question, "Disposable assignments are those assignments that both faculty and students understand will ultimately be thrown away". Ha! Ha! Now I found that I had done so many Disposable Assignment before. However, I did not throw them in the trash but they ended up in a life sentence and in a folder on my computer. Sometimes I go back to see them but not very often. 

Wiley and Hilton's article also mentioned the probability of renewable assignments. What? assignments can be renewable? What an interesting concept! Students' work is no longer discarded but modified and shared for future study by other learners. In this way, knowledge can be well shared and disseminated. I always think that the dissemination of knowledge can make knowledge more perfect and keep pace with the times. Renewable Assignments is a kind of knowledge transmission, which can spread knowledge to more people. What a great concept!

This week's reading also provides a checklist that appears six times in the Wiley and Hilton article. From here, you can see the importance of this checklist:

1. Are students asked to create new artifacts (essays, poems, videos, songs, etc.) or revise/remix existing OER?
2. Does the new artifact have value beyond supporting the learning of its author?
3. Are students invited to publicly share their new artifacts or revised/remixed OER?
4. Are students invited to openly license their new artifacts or revised/remixed OER?

I think this checklist can help teachers and students very well. It can help teachers to find and produce good OER textbooks and realize OER pedagogy. It also can help students find purpose and meaning in learning while learning different types of learning skills.

Watching! Here comes the readings!

• Wiley, D. & Hilton, J. (2018). Defining OER-Enabled Pedagogy. International Review of Research on Open and Distance Learning.
• What is Open Pedagogy?
• Open Pedagogy: The Importance of Getting in the Air
• OER-Enabled Pedagogy

Bonus Features re: open pedagogy and open educational practices

• Jhangiani, R. & DeRosa, R. (2018). Open Pedagogy Notebook.
• Hegarty, B. (2015). Attributes of Open Pedagogy: A Model for Using Open Educational Resources. Educational Technology.
• Cronin, C., & MacLaren, I. (2018). Conceptualising OEP: A review of theoretical and empirical literature in Open Educational Practices. Open Praxis, 10(2), 127-143.