Fostering Inclusive Communities Through a Student-Constructed Open Pedagogy Textbook

Abstract

Informed by literature and personal experience, we overview the evolution of a learner-centric Open Education Practice administered in our courses and offer practical strategies for instructors assigning student-authored Open Educational Resources (OER). The essay argues for designing open pedagogy renewable assessments, namely a student-authored textbook assignment, that evolves into a pedagogical tool for empowering students to present their unique selves and integrate observable diversity through visual representations.

Keywords:

• Diversity
• open educational resources (OER)
• open pedagogy
• renewable assessment
• social justice

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Notes

1 See Green (2017) for a detailed description of open licensing.

2 Adapting the OER by editing content, reordering it, and combining it with other material.

3 Refers to assignments that are retained and revised by future students as opposed to disposable assignments.

4 See Orozco (2020) for more information.

5 See www.creativecommons.org for more information.

6 https://oercommons.org/.