How do we define Open Pedagogy?
Educational Quote:
"Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it." ~Marian Wright Edelman
Weekly Insights:
In this week's readings, I have learned that open pedagogy is that set of teaching and learning practices only possible in the context of the free access and 4R permissions characteristic of open educational resources.
Connectivism is a great model of learning that can guide first year advising through "the integration of principles explored as chaos, network, and complexity, and self-organization theories as well as an understanding that decisions are based on rapidly altering foundations.
Principles of Connectivism:
Learning and knowledge rests in diversity of opinions.
Learning is a process of connecting specialized nodes or information sources.
Learning may reside in non-human appliances.
Capacity to know more is more critical than what is currently known
Nurturing and maintaining connections is needed to facilitate continual learning.
Ability to see connections between fields, ideas, and concepts is a core skill.
Currency (accurate, up-to-date knowledge) is the intent of all connectivist learning activities.
Decision-making is itself a learning process. Choosing what to learn and the meaning of incoming information is seen through the lens of a shifting reality. While there is a right answer now, it may be wrong tomorrow due to alterations in the information climate affecting the decision.
OER are:
Free to access
Free to reuse
Free to revise
Free to remix
Free to redistribute
OER-enabled pedagogies resulting in the creation of supplementary learning resources designed to facilitate the learning of other students.
OER-enabled pedagogies can result in the creation of supplementary learning resources designed to improve the understanding of future students.
It's important to remember that students learn by doing!
Sources:
Siemens, G. (2018). Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age. In A. Ottenbreit-Leftwich & R. Kimmons, The K-12 Educational Technology Handbook. EdTech Books. Retrieved from https://edtechbooks.org/k12handbook/connectivism
Wiley. (2013) "What is Open Pedagogy?"https://opencontent.org/blog/archives/2975
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