We invite you to join your colleagues who are creating space for students as knowledge creators as they incorporate open pedagogy into their courses!
Building on the open educational resources (OER) movement, open pedagogy engages students as knowledge creators, often in open, public venues, creating spaces for students to enact their agency in learning and co-creating learning experiences with instructors. Student work moves from “disposable assignments” with an audience of one, the instructor, to lasting renewable assignments with a broader audience. Examples include:
- students editing Wikipedia articles,
- writing for public blogs (e.g., on the BMCC OpenLab),
- creating and contributing to OER,
- recording podcasts, and
- writing zines, among other options.
In this learning community, participants will design an open pedagogy assignment. Activities will include pedagogical conversations with peers and faculty mentors on Zoom, as well as asynchronous activities such as readings and reflections. Zoom sessions (except for the first Weds, May 29) will take place on Mondays (June 3, June 10, 17, 24) and Wednesdays (May 29, June 5, 12, 26), 10 – 11:30am. NOTE: Wednesday, May 29, we will meet on campus. The remaining sessions will be held online.
Apply by Friday, May 3 at 5 pm, using this application form. Faculty selected to participate will receive a $500 stipend for creating an open pedagogy assignment for one of their courses.
We welcome faculty who have participated in this seminar in the past to apply again, but we are unable to provide a stipend to repeat attendees unless you are creating a different assignment.
This learning community is part of the ongoing OER/ZTC and open pedagogy initiative at both CUNY and SUNY funded by the NYS Department of Education.
For questions or more information, email us at oer@bmcc.cuny.edu.
