Section Overview: Open Education

In this section, you will learn about teaching with Open Educational Resources (OER), the ideas, practices, and principles behind Open Pedagogy, and working with students using OER and Open Pedagogy. We also provide resources to help orient students to OER, Open Pedagogy, and best practices for digital and online learning.

Below, you will find an overview of the chapter sections and quick links to each section.

Section Table of Contents: Open Education

1. Teaching with OER
2. Open Pedagogy
3. Working with Learners
4. Becoming an Open Educator – OEPS 1 Course

Overview: Teaching with OER

Welcome to teaching with OER! In the following modules, you will learn about becoming an Open Educator, the benefits of OER-Enabled Pedagogy, best practices guidelines, and online open pedagogy workshops and faculty development resources.

This section consists of several parts.

Becoming an Open Educator offers a series of writings by Open educators on their experience and suggestions for new Open Educators. It also offers an introduction to the self-paced course, “Becoming an Open Educator,” which is included later in this book.

Benefits & Best Practices of OER Enabled Pedagogy offers a series of materials on the benefits of teaching with OER and best practices for OER enabled pedagogy.

Workshops & Faculty Development Resources offers links and materials related to Open Pedagogy and OER workshops and faculty development resources. First, we provide a series of useful quick links compiled by Open Educator Rajiv Jhangiani. Then we include an outline and links for the SPARC* Open Education Leadership Curriculum. Finally, we offer an introduction to the OEPS Course, which will be provided in the next section.

Table of Contents: Teaching with OER

1. Becoming an Open Educator
   1. Open Pedagogy: Freedom in the Classroom — Instructor Notes by Ibukun D. Alegbeleye
   2. My Open Textbook: Pedagogy and Practice — Instructor Notes by Robin DeRosa
   3. Introduction to Open Pedagogy — Instructors’ Guide by Robin DeRosa & Rajiv Jhangiani
   4. Becoming an Open Educator: Course Overview — Quick Intro by Apurva Ashok
2. Benefits & Best Practices of OER Enabled Pedagogy
   1. Why OER Matters — Open Washington
   2. OER-Enabled Pedagogy Library – Open Education Group
   3. Five Rules of Textbook Development — BCcampus OpenEducation & Lauri Aesoph
   4. Quick Guide: Accessibility, Diversity, and Inclusion — BCcampus & Lauri Aesoph
   5. Fix As You Go — BCcampus & Lauri Aesoph
3. Workshops & Faculty Development Resources
   1. Quick Links: Open Pedagogy Resources — Rajiv Jhangiani
   2. SPARC* Open Education Leadership Curriculum
   3. OEPS 1.0 Course Intro — Opening Educational Practices in Scotland & The Open University

Overview: Becoming an Open Educator

In the first two sections, educators Ibukun D. Alegbeleye and Robin DeRosa discuss their ideas and practices of open pedagogy. In the third section, Robin DeRosa and Rajiv Jhangiani offer an overview of open pedagogy. In the fourth section, Apurva Ashok gives and overview of the online course, “Becoming an Open Educator.” Activities and materials from this course are included later in this book.

Table of Contents: Becoming an Open Educator

1. Open Pedagogy: Freedom in the Classroom — Instructor Notes by Ibukun D. Alegbeleye
2. My Open Textbook: Pedagogy and Practice — Instructor Notes by Robin DeRosa
3. Introduction to Open Pedagogy — Instructors’ Guide by Robin DeRosa & Rajiv Jhangiani
4. Becoming an Open Educator: Course Overview — Quick Intro by Apurva Ashok

Overview: Benefits – OER Enabled Pedagogy

This section offers a series of materials on the benefits of teaching with OER and best practices for OER enabled pedagogy. First, we provide an  article from Open Washington on the importance and benefits of OER. Next, we include a guide to the unique potential of OER-enabled pedagogy by the Open Education Group. Further, we offer materials from BC Campus and Open educator Lauri Aesoph on basic rules of textbook development, guidelines to student-centered Open pedagogy, including accessibility, diversity, and inclusion; and a quick guide to fix-as-you-go as a principle of OER material and textbook development.

Table of Contents: Benefits – OER Enabled Pedagogy

1. Why OER Matters — Open Washington
2. OER-Enabled Pedagogy Library – Open Education Group
3. Five Rules of Textbook Development — BCcampus OpenEducation & Lauri Aesoph
4. Quick Guide: Accessibility, Diversity, and Inclusion — BCcampus & Lauri Aesoph
5. Fix As You Go — BCcampus & Lauri Aesoph

Overview: Workshops & Faculty Development Resources

This section offers links and materials related to Open Pedagogy and OER workshops and faculty development resources. First, we provide a series of useful quick links compiled by Open Educator Rajiv Jhangiani. Then we include an outline and links for the SPARC* Open Education Leadership Curriculum. Finally, we offer an introduction to the OEPS Course, which will be provided in the next section.

Table of Contents: Workshops & Faculty Development Resources

1. Quick Links: Open Pedagogy Resources — Rajiv Jhangiani
2. SPARC* Open Education Leadership Curriculum
3. OEPS 1.0 Course Intro — Opening Educational Practices in Scotland & The Open University

Overview: Open Pedagogy

This section presents theory, practice, and praxis of Open Pedagogy.

The first part of this section, Open Education: 7 Things You Should Know, presents a series by Educause that discusses main points about Open Education content, practices, and policies.

The second part of this section, Case Studies: Projects, offers a selection of Open Pedagogy case studies presented in the OER book, A Guide to Making Open Textbooks with Students, edited by Elizabeth Mays.

The third part, Interviews, Faculty User Stories & Case Studies, provides interviews with Open Educators David Squires and Gabriel Higginbotham, who have worked with students to create OER textbooks and materials. It also links to videos from OER instructors and learners from California OER Council member colleges and universities.

The fourth part, Student Rights & Faculty Responsibilities, discusses the ways that faculty have a responsibility to keep student rights front of mind when making open textbooks with students. Privacy, licensing, and digital literacy are among the main issues to consider. Also included in this section is a sample memorandum of understanding for student authorship of OER textbooks and materials. 

Table of Contents: Open Pedagogy

1. Open Education: 7 Things You Should Know — Educause
   1. Open Education: Content
   2. Open Education: Practices
   3. Open Education: Policies
2. Case Studies: Projects — A Guide to Making Open Textbooks with Students & Elizabeth Mays
   1. Case Study: Frank Lloyd Wright and His Madison Buildings
   2. Case study: Antología Abierta de Literatura Hispánica
   3. Case Study: Principles of Microeconomics
   4. Case Study: Expanding the Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature
3. Interviews, Faculty User Stories & Case Studies —A Guide to Making Open Textbooks with Students & Elizabeth Mays, California OER Council
   1. Interviews — Elizabeth Mays, David Squires, and Gabriel Higginbotham
   2. Faculty User Stories & Case Studies — California OER Council
4. Student Rights & Faculty Responsibilities — A Guide to Making Open Textbooks with Students, Elizabeth Mays, Zoe Hyde Wake, David Squires
   1. Privacy
   2. Licensing
   3. Digital Literacy
   4. Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for student OER authorship participation

Overview: Open Education: 7 Things You Should Know

This section offers a series of articles from Educause on 7 Things You Should Know. This series of articles focuses on Open Education content, practices, and policies.

Table of Contents: Open Education: 7 Things You Should Know

1. Open Education: Content
2. Open Education: Practices
3. Open Education: Policies

Overview: Case Studies — Projects

This section offers a selection of Open Pedagogy case studies presented in the OER book, A Guide to Making Open Textbooks with Students, edited by Elizabeth Mays. These case studies provide examples of projects instructors have used to engage learners in creating, adapting, and editing OER textbooks and materials. 

Table of Contents: Case Studies — Projects

1. Case Study: Frank Lloyd Wright and His Madison Buildings
2. Case study: Antología Abierta de Literatura Hispánica
3. Case Study: Principles of Microeconomics
4. Case Study: Expanding the Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature

Overview: Interviews, Faculty User Stories & Case Studies

This section offers interviews with Open Educators David Squires and Gabriel Higginbotham, who have worked with students to create OER textbooks and materials.

Table of Contents: Interviews, Faculty User Stories & Case Studies

1. Interviews — Elizabeth Mays, David Squires, and Gabriel Higginbotham
2. Faculty User Stories & Case Studies — California OER Council

Overview: Student Rights & Faculty Responsibilities — Elizabeth Mays, Zoe Hyde Wake, David Squires

When making open textbooks with students, faculty have a responsibility to keep student rights front of mind. Privacy, licensing, and digital literacy are among the main issues to consider. Also included in this section is a sample memorandum of understanding for student authorship of OER textbooks and materials. 

Table of Contents: Student Rights & Faculty Responsibilities — Elizabeth Mays, Zoe Hyde Wake, David Squires

1. Privacy
2. Licensing
3. Digital Literacy
4. Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for student OER authorship participation

Overview: Working with Learners

This section contains six parts – Student Spotlights, Learning with OER – Benefits to Students, Student Planning – CCCOER, Students as OER Contributors, Evaluators, Co-Authors; Open Pedagogy Notebook Examples, and Sample Assignments & Resources.

Student Spotlights offers student spotlights from students who have been involved in the creation of OER materials and textbooks. This material comes from A Guide to Making Open Textbooks with Students: Project Ideas & Case Studies – Rebus Community & Elizabeth Mays.

Learning with OER – Benefits to Students offers faculty and student perspectives on the benefit to students of learning with OER and Open Education. This material comes from Barbara Illowsky, Rajiv Jhangiani, Nicole Allen, David Wiley, Jaime Marsh, Open Washington Open Educational Resources Network, Tacoma Community College, JoAnne Eller, and Jennifer Snoek-Brown.

Student Planning – CCCOER highlights ways that students and student groups can initiate and support Open Education. This material comes from CCCOER, with further resources from BCcampus.

Students as OER Contributors, Evaluators, Co-Authors offers writings by instructors with extensive OER experience. These instructors offer suggestions, guidelines, and tested methods for engaging students in not only the use of OER materials, but also the creation of materials. This information comes from a variety of educators, including Christina Hendricks, Rajiv Jhangiani, Jody R. Rosen and Maura A. Smale; Robin DeRosa, and Sean Michael Morris, Pete Rorabaugh and Jesse Stommel.

Open Pedagogy Notebook Examples offers selected materials from the Open Pedagogy Notebook, spearheaded by Robin DeRosa and Rajiv Jhangiani, including experience, guidelines, and suggestions by experienced instructors who use Open Pedagogy.

Sample Assignments & Resources presents a list of links to further examples, as well as materials from the Open Education Group for engaging students with Open Pedagogy, OER textbooks and materials, and OER projects.

Table of Contents: Working with Learners

1. Student Spotlights
   1. Student Spotlight: Samara Burns, Open Logic Project
   2. Student Spotlight: Matthew Moore, The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature, 2nd Edition
2. Learning with OER – Benefits to Students
   1. Faculty Perspectives on Open Textbooks
   2. Student Perspective: What Open Education Taught Me — Jaime Marsh
   3. Tacoma Community College: Student Guide to OER: OER Stories
3. Student Planning – CCCOER
4. Students as OER Contributors, Evaluators, Co-Authors
   1. Students’ Vital Role in OER – Christina Hendricks
   2. Pilot Testing Open Pedagogy — Rajiv Jhangiani
   3. Open Digital Pedagogy = Critical Pedagogy — Jody R. Rosen and Maura A. Smale
   4. Extreme Makeover: Pedagogy Edition — Robin DeRosa
   5. Beyond Rigor — Sean Michael Morris, Pete Rorabaugh and Jesse Stommel
   6. Further Resources
5. Open Pedagogy Notebook Examples
   1. Why have students answer questions when they can write them? — Rajiv Jhangiani
   2. Collaborative Syllabus Design: Students at the Center — Amy Nelson
   3. Student-Created Open “Textbooks” as Course Communities — Robin DeRosa
6. Sample Assignments & Resources

Overview: Student Spotlights

This section offers student spotlights from students who have been involved in the creation of OER materials and textbooks.

1. Student Spotlight: Samara Burns, Open Logic Project
2. Student Spotlight: Matthew Moore, The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature, 2nd Edition

Overview: Learning with OER – Benefits to Students

This section offers faculty and student perspectives on the benefit to students of learning with OER and Open Education.

1. Faculty Perspectives on Open Textbooks
2. Student Perspective: What Open Education Taught Me — Jaime Marsh
3. Tacoma Community College: Student Guide to OER: OER Stories

Becoming an Open Educator – OEPS 1 Course

This section presents a self-paced course on becoming an Open Educator. Materials are sourced from the Opening Educational Practices in Scotland (OEPS) course. Topics include definitions and practices of Open Education, benefits of practicing Open Education, how to find and use OER materials, how to create and share OER materials, and what Open practice, theory, and praxis look like. Learn more at your own pace.

• Contents
• 1. What Is ‘Open’ Education?
• 2. Why Use Open Practices and Resources?
• 3. Using Open Educational Resources
• 4. How to Create and Share Open Educational Resources
• 5. Putting Open into Practice