Hello!
I want to share this new article that was recently published by KPU faculty member Deirdre Maultsaid and TRU faculty member Michelle Harrison. This publication is the result of Deirdre’s year working with us as an Open Education Research Fellow and explores student perspectives on Open Pedagogy.
Can Open Pedagogy Encourage Care? Student Perspectives<https://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/6901>
Abstract: As a response to the increasing commercialization of postsecondary education, educators argue for a practice of care in education. Open pedagogy (OP) seems like an ideal practice where care, trust, and inclusion can be realized. OP is characterized as a democratic and collaborative pedagogical practice, in which students and teachers work to co-create learning and knowledge using openly licensed materials, open platforms, and other open processes. The purposes of this study were, first, to reveal ways students in postsecondary institutions perceive care and, second, to determine how students suggest OP can be used to create an open/caring learning process. A task-oriented focus group method engaged students from four teaching-focused institutions. The students created open cases on social issues for class discussion and reflected on care and OP processes in postsecondary settings. Using four elements of the ethics of care—attentiveness, responsibility, competence, and trustworthiness—as conceptual categories, the study examined students’ experience of care and care in OP using affective coding and thematic analysis. The results showed that through OP, with teacher support and explicitly designed practices of care, students can assert their agency, have quintessential roles in creating and participating in highly relevant curriculum and importantly, care about others, and be cared for. OP is a process able to involve a diverse population of students and embody care as an all-encompassing practice.
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Amanda Grey, MLIS (she/her)
Open Education Strategist, Teaching & Learning Commons
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
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Hi everyone!
We’re excited to share with you the following new OER that has just been published at KPU:
Stitched sewing techniques, how-to, and more
By: Heather Clark and Catherine Hay
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Within the fashion, sewing, and textile classrooms it is a challenge to find a textbook on the topic of sewing that covers the range of skills and techniques taught within these learning spaces. Typically to supplement student learning, handouts will be utilized along with in-class, and in-person demos. The open-source and online format of this OER will enable educators to continually update the resource to meet current student needs, learning outcomes, and reflect best practices within the apparel and fashion industry. Content in this OER supports skills and knowledge learned within the classroom while providing supportive resources for learners. This open-source learning resource contains details and step-by-step instructions, supported with images, videos, and text.
This resource will be continually worked on, with videos, text, and information being added. The vision for this resource is to provide learning resources to the sewing community – an array of learners, with multiple ways of ‘how-to’.
Visit the Website<https://wordpress.kpu.ca/stitched/>
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We at Kwantlen Polytechnic University respectfully acknowledge that we live, work and study in a region that overlaps with the unceded traditional and ancestral First Nations territories of the Musqueam, Katzie, Semiahmoo, Tsawwassen, Qayqayt, and Kwikwetlem; and with the lands of the Kwantlen First Nation, which gifted its name to this university.
Kwantlen Polytechnic University ► Where thought meets action
Hello!
Since KPU is a member of the Open Education Network (OEN), I’m passing along the following opportunity in case anyone is interested. If you do decide to join this group, please let me know!
For all open pedagogy practitioners: We would like to invite you to be a part of an Open Pedagogy Community of Practice that meets on the last Wednesday of each month from noon - 1:00 p.m. Central / 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Eastern.
This group is a safe and informal space for open pedagogy practitioners at OEN member institutions to come together and share wins, challenges, opportunities, and hot topics surrounding the practice of open pedagogy. We welcome your participation!
Please feel free to reach out to Tanya Grosz at grosz045(a)umn.edu<mailto:grosz045@umn.edu> with questions or to be added to the Zoom invite, or use the information below to join our next meeting on September 27th at 12:00 p.m. Central / 1:00 p.m. Eastern:
Join Zoom Meeting https://umn.zoom.us/j/91284870972?pwd=Q2FXa3ZIOVh4RU5JOGhLUFNwcXVQUT09 Meeting ID: 912 8487 0972 Passcode: 6Fz1ZM
We look forward to seeing you there!
Tanya
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Tanya Grosz, Ph.D.
Director of Educational Programs, Open Education Network<https://open.umn.edu/otn/>
Center for Open Education<https://open.umn.edu/>
College of Education and Human Development
University of Minnesota
telephone :: 612-916-6070
email :: grosz045(a)umn.edu<mailto:grosz045@umn.edu>
twitter :: @tanyagrosz
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Cheers,
Amanda
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Amanda Grey, MLIS (she/her)
Open Education Strategist, Teaching & Learning Commons
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
e amanda.grey(a)kpu.ca<mailto:amanda.grey@kpu.ca>
w www.kpu.ca/open<http://www.kpu.ca/open>
We at Kwantlen Polytechnic University respectfully acknowledge that we live, work and study in a region that overlaps with the unceded traditional and ancestral First Nations territories of the Musqueam, Katzie, Semiahmoo, Tsawwassen, Qayqayt, and Kwikwetlem; and with the lands of the Kwantlen First Nation, which gifted its name to this universityKwantlen Polytechnic University ► Where thought meets action
