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Open Pedagogy and Student Agency:

Empowering Students as Creators

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Lindsey Gumb, MLIS

Scholarly Communications Librarian

Roger Williams University

Will Cross, MSLS, J.D.

Director, Copyright & Digital Scholarship Center

NC State University Libraries

Heather Miceli, Ph.D.

Adjunct faculty

Roger Williams University

Johnson & Wales University

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About us

Will

Lindsey

  • Interested in intersections of academic librarianship and open education
  • Fellow, Open Education at New England Board of Higher Education
  • Co-chair, Rhode Island Open Textbook Initiative Steering Committee

Heather

  • Interested in open pedagogy and student outcomes (particularly science anxiety and confidence)
  • Gen Ed Project: CORE101: Open Pedagogy Project

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Research questions

  1. How well do undergraduate students engaging with OER understand copyright issues?
    1. Do they understand the potential of the open licenses?
    2. Are they comfortable making a public domain or fair use determination for materials they develop in the context of open pedagogy?
    3. Do they understand who owns materials they revise or develop?
  2. How do open pedagogy-based courses communicate principles of student agency?
    • whether students own the materials they create
    • how faculty explain fair use as a tool for making/remixing in a way that engages with students' lived experiences
    • choosing a particular open license
    • offering opt-out/student privacy
    • managing legal risk
    • managing risk of working in the open in terms of public backlash, trolling, etc.

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Methodology

Faculty interviews

  • Identify initial pool of instructors using open pedagogy via Twitter and conference programs
  • Schedule individual interviews that lead to snowball sampling that identifies others

Student survey

  • Understand student experiences
  • Faculty will administer the survey at the end of their open pedagogy project.