Open Pedagogy Examples
What does open pedagogy look like in a classroom?
Classroom Examples
There are lots of ways your instructor might go about incorporating open pedagogy into your class. The most typical way is through an assignment or project.
You might hear your instructor call this a renewable assignment. The goal of a renewable assignment is to give students agency and choice in some aspect of the assignment, allow them to engage in meaningful work, add value to the world, and provide a foundation for future students to learn from and build on.[1]
Examples of Renewable Assignments
- Writing chapters for an open textbook
- Creating quiz and test questions
- Social annotation
- Creating topic websites
- Creating and editing Wikipedia
- Writing case studies
- Creating research guides
- Creating infographics
- Recording podcasts or videos
- Translating content
For more examples you can take a look at the Open Pedagogy Portal. The Student Work Product page has real examples of renewable assignments in action.
Another example in your classroom might be working with your instructor to co-create your syllabus. This might include selecting new and diverse course materials, coming up with key topics to focus on, and setting out the class norms and procedures.
These are just some of the many ways open pedagogy and renewable assignments can be used in a class.
- Bearman, A. (n.d.) Advanced Engagement. PALNI Press. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. ↵
An assignment or activity in which students are invited to openly license and publicly share the artifact that is created, which has value beyond the students' own learning. (Source: Open Pedagogy Approaches)