About Open Pedagogy

Open pedagogy is a teaching approach that invites students to become active contributors to knowledge, not just consumers. It uses open practices and openly licensed materials to design authentic, collaborative, and public-facing learning experiences.

Students working in open pedagogy courses create, remix, or share work that others can build upon;helping them understand both the value and responsibility of information creation.

What are the benefits of Open Pedagogy?

• Student Engagement
  Students take ownership of their learning by creating work with real-world purpose and visible impact.

• Authentic Learning
  Assignments connect to public audiences and ongoing conversations, letting students see how their work contributes to larger communities of knowledge.

• Student Collaboration & Creativity
  Students often co-create content together to produce public-facing work, providing peer learning opportunities. 

• Information & Digital Literacy
  Students learn about intellectual property, authorship, and sharing information in public spaces.

• Student Agency
  Students can choose how and whether to share their work. Open pedagogy values transparency and shared authority while acknowledging differences in access, privilege, and privacy.

• Transformative Teaching Practice
  Reimagining assignments as renewable, openly shareable projects challenges traditional classroom boundaries and can reinvigorate your teaching.