Open Pedagogy and Renewable Assignments: Social Sciences

Designing with OER Fellows Mary Wiseman and Vernon Percy, Bay Path University designed Renewable Assignments for Introduction to Psychology. It was originally aligned to OpenStax’s Introduction to Psychology)

Veronica Howard developed an open pedagogy project was to develop an assignment for an upper division undergraduate course that would (a) assess whether students can both demonstrate accurate but user-friendly behavioral description of complex behavioral terms, and (b) develop a meaningful assignment for students that can also help address the scarcity of ABA supplemental course materials.

Amy Nusbaum developed a project to make a textbook more comprehensive, better researched, and more inclusive by writing new content, modifying the content that is already there, and linking to other resources.

A compilation of ideas of Open Pedagogy Assignment from Quill West. There are very few limitations related to open pedagogy. It’s important to remember three basic elements:
- Open Pedagogy is shared with others.
- Open Pedagogy depends on open licenses.
- Open Pedagogy is active.

This website is designed to serve as a resource for educators interested in learning more about Open Pedagogy. We invite you to browse through the examples, which include both classroom-tested practices and budding ideas, and to consider contributing examples of your own experiments with open pedagogy.

A group of Open Pedagogy Assignments from Montgomery College relating to UN Sustainable Development Goals.

This project brings together faculty and students from across departments and Faculties to co-create an interdisciplinary, open educational resource with case studies that can be used by anyone, at UBC or elsewhere. Many of these case studies focus on topics in sustainability, but we also include cases on other topics that benefit from an interdisciplinary approach.