Open Pedagogy

"When you use open pedagogy in your classroom, you are inviting your students to be part of the teaching process, participating in the co-creation of knowledge."

- BC Campus OpenEd

Open Pedagogy is access-oriented and learner-driven. With Open Pedagogy, students help create their learning environment, which gives them greater agency, and they are encouraged to reflect on their work and set goals based on what is meaningful or compelling and motivates their learning.

Examples of Open Pedagogy projects include an interdisciplinary webpage on a Biopsychology topic, an Activist Memoirs Database, and Principles of Genetics Learning Portfolios. 

Why Open Pedagogy?

Open Educational Practices (OEP) can be considered to range across three broad dimensions, including some sub-dimensions, as follows:

  1. From content-centric to process-centric;
  2. From teacher-centric to learner-centric;
  3. From primarily pedagogical to primarily social justice focused. If primarily social justice focused, we can consider the degree to which it addresses:
    1. Economic and/or
    2. Cultural and/or
    3. Political injustice

(Bali, Cronin, & Jhangiani 2020)

https://jime.open.ac.uk/articles/10.5334/jime.565

Power of Open Pedagogy