[Open-education] [cc-openedu] Students and Open Education

Thu Nov 23 21:40:10 UTC 2017

Hello Everyone:

I’m excited to be part of the thread.  I’m an Assistant Professor of
English at Spelman College in Atlanta, GA, which is a small liberal arts
Historically Black (HBCU) Women’s College.  I’ve tried to infuse our
teaching and learning community with open educational resources for the
purposes of demonstrating the power of radical access.   Our institution’s
unique history and purpose presents a great potential for practicing
digital community literacies that are capable of representing the cultural
knowledge of historically marginalized people.

As part of our Writing-Intensive Initiative, I’ve done faculty development
about teaching with Wikipedia across disciplines for the purposes
confronting its lack of racial and gender diversity among editors.

Wiki Edu has been a great resource, and I am working with Jami Mathewson to
figure out how it can provide more pedagogical resources that tap into the
meta-cognitive learning potential of writing and researching with Wikipedia.

Please feel free to check out and circulate these materials (links are
embedded in the resource).

https://issuu.com/alexandrialockett/docs/webinar_copy_of_2016_acs_symposium_

I also organized Spelman’s first-ever Art+Feminism.

My teaching also includes digital portfolios with an emphasis on feminist
cybersecurity, reputation management, and Workplace discrimination.

I hope to continue learning about everyone’s great work!

Best,

Alex

www.alexandrialockett.com

On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 4:23 PM Shawn Fraser <snfraser at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is a fascinating thread.
> Verena, your notes above hit close to home for us. We have just written
> and are launching a new introductory grad course to our Masters of Health
> Studies program where students are required to engage in open educational
> practices. This open learning approach will be built throughout the
> program. In the first course they create an ePortfolio (using a tool of
> their choice) and they begin blogging and establishing a professional
> digital identify. They will also learn about digital literacy through
> course activities and practice using social media tools to leverage the
> expertise of learning networks within and outside of the course.
>
> -shawn
>
> Shawn N Fraser, PhD
> Associate Dean and Associate Professor
> Faculty of Health Disciplines
> Athabasca University
> 1-866-500-2867
> shawn.fraser at athabascau.ca
> *https://twitter.com/shawnnfraser <https://twitter.com/shawnnfraser>*
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 2:01 PM, Verena Roberts <vroberts at rvschools.ab.ca>
> wrote:
>
>> When considering open educational practice, using the idea of Domain of
>> Our Own <https://www.wired.com/insights/2012/07/a-domain-of-ones-own/> might
>> also be considered? There is also information from the UMW
>> <http://umw.domains/>
>>
>> The idea of making learning visible (openly) outside of the formal
>> constraints of a learning management system, can also be considered open
>> educational practice.
>>
>> In this case, the focus would be on students making and creating their
>> own OER, but also building their social reputation and online identity.
>>
>> Obviously, part of this approach would also have to include an awareness
>> about student digital privacy and data and having it as a "choice" could
>> always be an option.
>>
>> If the emphasis is on the strengths and weaknesses of participatory
>> culture
>> <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/confronting-challenges-participatory-culture>
>> - the strength of this pedagogical approach lies in the opportunity for
>> learning to happen, and be visible, in formal and informal networked
>> learning spaces.
>>
>> If creating domain of our owns is not an option, Robin DeRosa has also
>> written about creating dPorts which are digital ePortfolio activities.
>> These are also really great examples of open practice and pedagogy.
>>
>> From Robin:
>>
>> I don’t have too much written up on ePorts (mostly tackle the idea when I
>> speak, so there is a lot of repetition of some of the basics in my slides,
>> though I know it’s hard to decipher the full meaning from the decks). You
>> can check out this presentation, and see the section starting around slide
>> 31:
>> https://www.slideshare.net/orbitdog1/sustainable-assignments-how-open-pedagogy-can-transform-teaching
>>
>>
>> I have a bit about ePorts in this post about a First-Year Seminar I
>> taught using OEP:
>> http://robinderosa.net/higher-ed/extreme-makeover-pedagogy-edition/
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>> Verena :)
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 12:13 PM, Werner Westermann <
>> wernerwestermannj at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all, reagrds from Santiago.  Apologies for cross-posting.
>>>
>>> An OpenCon event will be held in Chile.  I was very happy to be invited,
>>> and of course I would like to tackle my presentation highlightiing student
>>> participation and engagement.  I've found information about perceptions and
>>> attitudes:
>>> https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/knowledge-hub/students%E2%80%99-views-learning-methods-and-open-educational-resources-higher-education
>>>
>>> But, what open educational practices would you feature thinking about
>>> strong student participation in learning?  My paradigm on this is the
>>> LibreText project https://chem.libretexts.org/  Other best practices?
>>> Thanks for your time and consideration,
>>>
>>> Werner Westermann
>>>
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