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
Please note: This activity has been updated. Complete this Pressbook version not the activity that is in your personal evolve guide.
Evolve Guide, Activity 14
As you reflect on your understanding of Open Pedagogy and are beginning to solidify your project consider how you will talk about the role of students as content creators and the purpose of integrating open work into your course.
- Read the chapter Library Support for Scaffolding OER-enabled Pedagogy in a General Education Science Course and
- Draft a script that is representative of how you present the concepts, OR of how you would like to present the key concepts of what it means to publish/create open educational materials to your students.
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 Unpaywall browser extension.
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?
