Cascadia Open Education Summit In Review

for PCC Teaching and Learning Center, May 2019

Titles and presenters below spoke at the 2019 Cascadia Open Education Summit, April 2019 in Vancouver, BC.

Overview:

• Free vs. Open
• Accessibility
• Using learning data for continuous improvement
• Open pedagogy starter kit
• 5Rs – Old and New
• Pressbooks as an Open Platform
• Interactivity with H5P
• Open Ed, Equity, and Inclusion

Free vs. Open

• Keynote by Dr. Karen Cangialosi
• “Traditional OER” vs. moving beyond a focus on cost
• To paraphrase, her description of Open Pedagogy includes:
  • Community and collaboration: sharing resources, ideas, and power
  • Connection to a wider public: learners contribute to, not just consume knowledge
  • Student focused and knowledge-driven
  • Critical approach to knowledge (Who creates it? What biases are present?)
• Contrasting definition: OER-enabled Pedagogy (David Wiley)
• Complicating question: If this work is de-colonializing and anti-racist, who is actually doing it? Whose voices are really in control of this process?

Moving Beyond a Checklist Approach to Accessibility

• Josie Gray, BC Campus Textbooks
• Open Text: Accessibility Toolkit
• “Trying to complicate my own understanding…”
• BC Campus Open Textbooks

Using Learning Data to Drive OER Content Improvements

David Wiley, Lumen Learning

• Non-disposable Assignments
• “Improvement in post-secondary education will require converting teaching from a solo sport to a community-based research activity.” Herb Simon
• Waymaker LMS

• RISE Analysis (direct link to PDF of research)
• Community-Based Continuous Improvement
• OER-enabled Pedagogy (David Wiley)

An Open Pedagogy Starter Kit

• Designing for Open: Educational Design and Open Pedagogy – Will Engle, Christina Hendricks, Gill Green, Rajiv Jhangiani, Lucas Wright
• Link to notes… any day now… 🙂
• Including student voices and power
  • Noba Student Video Project
• Open can be on many levels and in the margins:
  • activity
  • syllabus
  • assessment
  • course materials
  • curriculum
  • …and beyond…?

5Rs: Old and New

• More explication by Jhangiani at Digital Pedagogy Lab Keynote, Spring 2019
• Even more wonderful discussion of Critical Open Pedagogy on the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

Pressbooks as an OER Platform

Collaborative Approaches to Open Learning Resources Development – Lin Brander, Rosario Passos

• Involving community members (elders and practitioners) and recognizing the value of their time and knowledge
• My own experience developing materials / using Pressbooks
• Pressbooks documentation
• For more information and possibly access to Pressbooks in Oregon, contact Open Oregon and Amy Hofer

Interactive content with H5P

Adding Interactivity to OER to improve student learning – Wendy King, Lucas Wright, Ross Strader

• Mirroring my own experience with H5P:
  • Webinar overview: Hey H5P!
  • ORTESOL Presentation: Unleashing H5P

Open Education and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

• See again the old and new 5Rs
• Equity and Open Education – A PCC Presidential Fund cohort series by Jen Klaudinyi