Open Educational Resources (OER) Toolkit

OER-Enabled Pedagogy

"...is the set of teaching and learning practices only practical in the context of the 5R permissions characteristic of open educational resources. Some people – but not all – use the terms “open pedagogy” or “open educational practices” synonymously." (from: openedgroup.org/oer-enabled-pedagogy)

Real Life Examples

• Wikipedia articles: writing and editing in order to learn about a topic and the cycle of information creation
• Quiz banks and Assignments: students craft and peer review learning and assessment tools in order to better engage with class material
• Course Learning Objects: student created learning objects for a Physics 101 Course
• Textbook creation or revision: students participate in creating and revising openly licensed course materials, especially relevant for unique classes with few textbook options.
  • The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature
  • Change: A Leader's Perspective
  • Sound Writing
• Course assignments: Open Pedagogy Notebook examples
• "Renewable Assignments:" examples for a variety of disciplines
• Collaborative Syllabus Design: co-creating learning outcomes with students
• Zines: "renewable assignments"
• #OpenPedagogy

The Values of Open Pedagogy

2018 Caroline Sinkinson, The Values of Open Pedagogy. The text of this work is licensed under a Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 International License.

Find out more: 5Rs for Open Pedagogy, by Rajiv Jhangiani, Ph.D.

(7 min. –but totally worth it!)

Rajiv Jhangiani is a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. He conducts research on open education, the scholarship of teaching and learning, and political psychology.

• Exercise academic freedom by customizing course materials
• Update text and materials immediately
• Participate in the OER Community and contribute to peer review
• Provide global access to quality learning materials
• Develop student driven, multimodal learning using open pedagogy

• Access learning materials from day one of class
• Retain access to materials after class ends
• Support varied learning styles through multimodal options and print/digital choice
• Reduce college costs from textbooks
• Improve accessibility by providing screen reader ready materials

• Efficacy of Open Textbook Adoption on Learning Performance and Course Withdrawal Rates: A Meta-Analysis (2019)

• Open educational resources, student efficacy, and user perceptions: a synthesis of research published between 2015 and 2018 (2019)

• ​​As Good or Better than Commercial Textbooks: Students’ Perceptions and Outcomes from Using Open Digital and Open Print Textbooks (2018)

• Savings without sacrifice: a case report on open-source textbook adoption (2018)

• ​What Happens When Trained Graduate Student Instructors Switch to an Open Textbook? A Controlled Study of the Impact on Student Learning Outcomes (2018)

• Defining OER-Enabled Pedagogy (2018)