I am very excited to be learning with you all this semester!  We will focus on opening our digital pedagogy together – exploring open educational resources and open pedagogy, along with related opens: open access and open GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums). We’ll dig into how open educational practices can be (but are not necessarily) adapted to be accessible, inclusive, and culturally responsive, and explore the range of ways open practitioners are responding to AI.

The focus of the course topics will be on the why’s, how’s, and where’s of open educational practices, with a special focus on critical digital pedagogy. The work of the semester will culminate in a project selected by each student to further their exploration specific to their own educational context: projects might be OER they create, courses they design, research studies, or substantial grant proposal drafts. The course incorporates hands-on exploration of educational uses of new-media applications and open possibilities. The course will use an open pedagogy approach to teaching and learning, including a co-created syllabus wherein students will have significant say in the selection of course materials and assignments.

Please check out our syllabus here.