Session Logistics
- Format: asynchronous
- Time required: 4 hours
Welcome to Session 6
Welcome to Session 6. As a reminder, you’ll make progress toward the following objectives in Phase 2:
- Valuing students as co-creators of information.
- Evaluating current pedagogical, curricular, and assessment strategies.
- Identifying key course components to be re-designed or developed as part of goals for the program.
- Engaging with the open community and resources to support development work
- Determining appropriate open source repositories & platforms for your given needs.
Experiencing a mindful moment
Let’s take a few minutes to center ourselves before diving into the Session 6 content. Follow along with this 3-minute gratitude meditation:
Engaging in co-developing our language
Evolve Guide, Activity 14
As you reflect on your understanding of Opening Pedagogy and are beginning to solidify your project consider how you will talk about and describe the role of open in your course.
- Look back at your brainstorm in the Project Template
- Draft your content in your Evolve Guide. This could take the form of syllabi language, notes or a script you would use during a class session, written language for a Canvas page, etc.
- Now, copy and paste your ideas in the shared document that was emailed to you. Take some time to look at the examples from your colleagues. We encourage you to provide feedback to your colleagues-be curious!
Exploring scaffolding for your open project
The focus of this session is on scaffolding your open pedagogy assignment and brainstorming assessment strategies. Read the Library Support for Scaffolding OER-enabled Pedagogy in a General Education Science Course chapter that discusses scaffolding and student privacy and consent related to open pedagogy assignments.
Book by Adrien Coquet from Noun Project (CC BY 3.0)
Evolve Guide, Activity 15
This Library Support for Scaffolding OER-enabled Pedagogy in a General Education Science Course chapter gave us some tangible things (eg scaffolding, sustainability, intellectual property, open licenses, and student consent) to consider as you continue developing your open project.
- What do you need to build on and/or incorporate into your project design?
- At this stage what’s feeling challenging about the development process?
- How might you overcome those challenges?
Open Access and repositories to support open projects
As you develop your assignment and start to identify supporting readings for your students, consider utilizing materials that are openly available. This might be OERs found in repositories we have already explored, but this can also be scholarly articles published in Open Access (OA) journals or preprint repositories. This can be a helpful introduction for students to understand how they might access high quality scholarly resources once they are no longer affiliated with JMU.
If you already have applicable readings, you can see if you can find OA versions using the Open Access button or Unpaywall browser extensions.
If you need support finding OER and OA materials, you can access links to resources as well as the appropriate support librarian from the following two guides:
Where to publish and find OA guide
Evolving your open project
Continue developing your Open Project
Engaging with your peers through Hypothes.is
After you have completed your individual reflection in your evolve guide we will reflect together by annotating the Pressbook content. Using our private hypothes.is group provide an annotation to share your reflection on the following questions. You can also respond to other’s annotations with thoughts.
Hypothes.is Activity
- What’s one thing you’ve identified to work on as a next step to developing your project?
- What’s feeling challenging at this phase?
Evolving your open practices
As we are wrapping up Phase 2, we are asking you to contribute to the formative assessment for the program. This activity is a formative assessment reflection for you to consider your own progress in the program as well as to provide feedback for facilitators. Completing these formative assessment surveys is considered a critical component to fulfilling the requirements of this program (as outlined in the initial MOU). We appreciate you taking the time to reflect on your experience thus far in this formative assessment and for all of your contributions to the program. The facilitators will email you the link to the survey.
evaluation by nugra from Noun Project (CC BY 3.0)
