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Open Educational Resources (OER) & Open Pedagogy

Open Education &

Publishing Institute

2022

Slides were created by Laurie Hurson and are licensed under a Creative

Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License

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Goals of the Open Education & Publishing Institute

Open Education: Create and build an OER/ZTC course

Hosted and taught on the CUNY Academic Commons and/or Manifold
Primarily OER and ZTC content
Course will involve student development of public-facing work or a digital project

Open Publishing: Develop an OER on the Commons and/or Manifold

Openly-licensed teaching materials to use in your courses

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OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

“any type of educational materials that are in the public domain or introduced with an open license…[meaning] that anyone can legally and freely copy, use, adapt and re-share them. OERs range from textbooks to curricula, syllabi, lecture notes, assignments, tests, projects, audio, video and animation.” (UNESCO)

“teaching, learning and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions.” (Hewlett Foundation)

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Source: Open Educational Resources | University Libraries | TTU

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Enables sharing and reuse of creativity and knowledge through the provision of free legal tools

“Licenses are legal tools that creators and other rights holders can use to offer certain usage rights to the public, while reserving other rights”

CC Licenses determine how digital work can be used, shared, & edited

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https://opened.cuny.edu/

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“Open”

How can we think about “open” beyond “openly licensed materials”?

...what else do we mean when we talk about “open,” and how can we think about “openness” as an ethos not simply a licensing agreement, one with tremendous power to shift education beyond a focus on “content”?

...here’s a key question: does “open” actually transform the way in which we do “school,” the way in which we teach and learn?

Audrey Watters, “What Do We Mean By Open Education”

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OER & Open Digital Pedagogy

“Use of cost-free, publicly available online tools and platforms by instructors and students for teaching, learning, and communicating in support of educational goals“ (Rosen & Smale, 2015; Hybrid Pedagogy)

→ OER: Open Educational Resources

→ Open-source web platforms

→ Accessible digital content/tools

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OER → Open Digital Pedagogy

Open: Connect the outside world and your classroom using teaching methods that emphasize shared knowledge production, integrate students’ lived experiences into the course material, and develop public-facing projects or activities

Digital: Harness the potential of open source resources, platforms, and tools that are free to use, share, adapt, remix, and redistribute and can empower professors and students to shape their educational experience.

Pedagogy: The philosophy and practice of teaching that connects knowledge, research, and instruction to foster deep learning and critical thinking.

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TEACHING PLATFORMS

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Building & Sustaining

Open Infrastructure at CUNY

https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/

https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/

Two CUNY developed platforms strive to support teaching with OER, OER creation, and open teaching more broadly

Platforms promote, encourage cross-CUNY collaboration

Home-grown, CUNY-developed - respond to context

Informed by and responsive to faculty, student, user experiences

Both platforms run out of the graduate center but aim to bring on faculty from all UCNY Campuses to imagine and create open teaching projects

Manifold is

an intuitive, open, collaborative platform for scholarly publishing that is also a powerful tool for teaching. Manifold allows instructors to create dynamic course materials by publishing custom, annotatable editions of public domain texts and open educational resources (OER)
Instructors can embed additional notes, files, images, videos and interactive content into the text to create a multimedia reading experience.
Manifold also supports collaborative annotations, so students can “meet” in the margins of texts and discuss course content online.
Instructors can link to Manifold texts from their Commons site, or wherever they are hosting their course readings. Manifold presents instructors with the opportunity to incorporate public and collaborative reading and discussion into their courses.publishing platform created by the
Created by University of Minnesota Press and the CUNY Graduate Center, in partnership with Cast Iron Coding, supported by generous grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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OER EXAMPLES: General

TeachOER: OER outlets and sample assignments

CUNY OER Commons: OER produced by and for CUNY professors

Open textbooks: free, open, peer-reviewed textbooks

Merlot II: an online database of Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching

MIT OpenCourseware: online repository with course materials for over 2340 courses developed for MIT’s online learning outlets

Flickr Creative Commons: openly licensed images that are free to use and remix

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OER EXAMPLES: Disciplinary

ScienceForward: videos and resources that introduce science as way of exploring the world; focuses on the critical thinking skills in use across the scientific disciplines

SmartHistory: engaging videos and essays that cover all eras of (art) history, ranging from the paleolithic to the present

Art History Teaching Resources: online repository of art history teaching content

EqualityArchive: multimodal (text/image/video) archive with entries detailing the history of sex and gender issues in the United States

The American Yawp: crowd-sourced US History Textbook

Manifold: open, annotatable literature texts (18th and 19th c.) to replace course anthologies