Open Pedagogy Resources

Here are links to examples of projects you can use for inspiration or models,
resources for your own open pedagogy projects, and OP presentations.

(Click on the label to see links to examples. Note: All external links open in new windows.)

Project Types:

• Blogs: Examples:
  • Vanderbilt University Course Blogs:
    • The Solar System, Erika Grundstrom (Astronomy)
    • The Cinematic Essay, Jonathan Rattner (Cinema & Media Studies)
    • Science/Fiction, Jay Clayton (English) and Robert Scherer (Physics)
    • Picture It: Literature, Photography, and Memory, Alison Schachter (English)
    • Vandy Performs, Christin Essin (Theatre)
    • William Blake and Enlightenment Media, Humberto Garcia (English)
    • Neely’s News for Children’s Literature Enthusiasts, Ann Neely (Teaching & Learning)
    • Cryptography: The History and Mathematics of Codes and Code Breaking, Derek Bruff (Mathematics)
  • Other blogs to come
  Resources
  • Kendra Oliver and Richard Coble, Teaching with Blogs – Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University
  • 60. Inclusive Teaching – a Tea for Teaching podcast in which Danica Savoca discusses how students in her class posted public blogs in the HASTAC community.
  • Stephens, M. (2016). Connected Learning: Evaluating and Refining an Academic Community Blogging Platform. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 57(4), 295-310.
• Collections: Examples
  • Fashion History Timeline at FIT
  • Baltimore Uprising 2015 Archive Project
  • Appalachian Oral History Project Interviews, 1965-1989
  Resources
  • Fashion History Timeline – Justine De Young describes the Fashion History Timeline Project at FIT in this 3/6/2019 webinar presentation
  • How do I engage students in oral history projects? – Oral History Association
• ePortfolios: Examples
  • Student ePortfolio samples – Department of Writing and Rhetoric, University of Central Florida
  Resources
  • WordPress for Student ePortfolios – Monroe Library libguide, Loyola University, New Orleans
• Glossaries: Examples
  • Students’ final projects from SUNY-Cortland: Glossary of Keywords for Literary Studies
  Resources
  • 56. Love’s Labor Not Lost – Tea for Teaching podcast in which Mya Brown describes a project in which students create a Glossary.
  • 60. Inclusive Teaching – A Tea for Teaching podcast in which Danica Savonick describes her student’s Glossary of Keywords for Literary Studies project at SUNY-Cortland
• Online student research projects: Examples
  • History Research Resource – Judith Littlejohn’s site
  • Econometric Analysis Undergraduate Research Papers – student research papers from Shatakshee Dhongde’s Econometric Analysis class at Georgia Tech
  Resources
  • History Research Resource – Judith Littlejohn’s site
• Podcasts: Examples
  • Oz-onomics – a podcast series created by students in John Kane’s introductory economics class
  • VandyVox – a podcast series that features the best student podcasts at Vanderbilt University
  • Voices of Oswego Veterans Student Podcast project
  Resources
  • Getting Started with Student Podcast Assignments – Duke Learning Innovations
  • 7. Student Writing – Tea for Teaching podcast with Stephanie Pritchard that discusses the Voices of Oswego Veterans Podcast Assignment
  • Voices of Oswego Veterans Podcast Assignment Overview
  • Buddle, Chris
  (2013). “Hear This! Podcasts as as assessment tool in higher education June 19.
• Remix and annotate online content: Examples
  • Dwayne Dixon’s Rhizome Experiment, Fall 2015.
  Resources
  • 57. Scalar – a Tea for Teaching podcast in which Fiona Coll discusses how her students use Scalar for writing, annotating, and remixing online content.
  • Hypothesis for Higher Education
  • Annotating the Marginal Syllabus -Teaching in Higher Ed podcast with Remi Kalir, April 4, 2019
  • Dixon’s article about Rhizome Experiment: “Imagining the Essay as Digital Assemblage: Collaborative Student Experiments with Writing in Scalar.” Prompt: A Journal of Academic Writing Assignments, v. 1, n. 1, Dec. 2016.
• Service learning: Examples
  • Judie’s example
  • Smithsonian Digital Volunteers Transcription Center: Browse Projects
  • Citizen Archivist Missions – National Archives
  • Volunteer from Home – Crowdsourcing Transcription of Historical Documents Library, Indiana University East. May 14,2018
  Resources
  • Service Learning Ideas – Estrella Mountain Community College
  • Smithsonian Digital Volunteers
  • Citizen Archivist Dashboard
  • By the People Transcription for the Library of Congress
  • Transcribe TED Talks
  • “Transcribe the military records of African American soldiers in the American Civil War
• Student created ancillaries: Examples
  • TBD
  Resources
  • Wiki Education
  • Jhangiani, Rajiv (2017). “Why Have Students Answer Questions When they Can Write Them?” January 12.
  • Nelson, Amy (2019). “Collaborative Syllabus Design – Students at the Center. Sirius Reflections March 8.”
  • Cohen, S., González-Arévalo, B., & Pivarski, M. (2016). Students as partners in curricular design: Creation of student-generated calculus projects. arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.06333.
• Student created books: Examples
  • The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature – Robin DeRosa’s first student-created book project
  • Income Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility – John Kane’s spring 2019 economics capstone class project
  • Models and Mechanisms of Public Health – An open pedagogy project involving 75 students in Jessica Kruger’s class at the University at Buffalo
  Resources
  • My Open Textbook: Pedagogy and Practice – Robin DeRosa describes two textbooks on Early American Literature created by her students
  • 55. Open Pedagogy a Tea for Teaching podcast in which Robin DeRosa describes how students created annotated anthologies.
  • 66. Just-in-Time Textbook – A Tea for Teaching podcast in which Jessica Kruger discusses how her class of 75 students created a textbook for their own course.
  • Pressbooks.com – A platform, based on WordPress, for online book creation.
  • A Guide to Making Open Textbooks with Students
• Videos: Examples
  • DTU 02807 – Apache Mesos
  • H2O Tutorial
  Resources
  • 20 Video Projects to Engage Students
  • Making students create public tutorial videos as a course assignment – Eduflow, March 24, 2016.
  • Adobe Spark Education
• Wikis: Examples
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  Resources
  • Wiki Edu – Wikipedia provides a structured framework for class assignments based in which students contribute to wikipedia.
  • Choral Explanations – A discussion of how sites such as Quora and Yahoo Answers combine some of the best features of a discussion forum and a wiki.

Additional Resources:

• SUNY Open Pedagogy Explorer – A collection in Twine!
• Open Pedagogy Notebook – An extensive collection of resources created by the open pedagogy community
• Austin Community College’s Open Educational Resources – Open Pedagogy Examples  
• Open Education Group: Renewable Assignments – Assignments in which students build upon and expand existing OER content
• Ed Beck – Instructional Designer – This contains several links to open pedagogy projects
• SUNY Create
• SUNY Open Pedagogy Projects
• SUNY OER Community Course Series
• SUNY OER Services: Embracing Open Pedagogy
• SUNY Open Pedagogy Master Class

Learn more about open pedagogy.