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Open Pedagogy
Robin DeRosa and Rajiv Jhangiani
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This is a truly inspirational piece by Robin DeRosa and Rajiv Jhangiani, internationally known advocates for Open Education, who describe the history of Open Education, its implications for student success and educational equity, and tools and ideas that you can use to empower learners.
“Open Pedagogy,” as we engage with it, is a site of praxis, a place where theories about learning, teaching, technology, and social justice enter into a conversation with each other and inform the development of educational practices and structures...In this brief introduction, we offer a pathway for engaging with the current conversations around Open Pedagogy, some ideas about its philosophical foundation, investments, and its utility, and some concrete ways that students and teachers—all of us learners—can “open” education. We hope that this chapter will inspire those of us in education to focus our critical and aspirational lenses on larger questions about the ideology embedded within our educational systems and the ways in which pedagogy impacts these systems. At the same time we hope to provide some tools and techniques to those who want to build a more empowering, collaborative, and just architecture for learning.
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