What is Open Pedagogy?

This essay defines Open Pedagogy, explores its foundations and implications, and offers strategies to apply it in your own teaching.

This chapter describes the benefits that together reinforce the goals of Open Pedagogy: empowering students as learners and creators and building engaging and inclusive learning experiences for all. 

How can faculty enhance student engagement and participation in their courses? Open Pedagogy assignments offer that opportunity by centering learner agency, sharing, collaboration, and community.

This guide presents seven types of Open Pedagogy assignments, including concrete examples and research studies on their impact on student learning.

Through a culturally responsive lens, this guide presents ways to embrace open pedagogy through the creation of renewable, student co-created assignments and open assessments. Emphasis is placed on equitable student experiences and outcomes.