Whittemore Library: The OPEN Movements: Open Pedagogy

Open Pedagogy is...

...students contributing to the creation of an open textbook that is then revised and built upon by students in future courses.
...students creating and/or editing Wikipedia articles to improve content coverage and quality in a subject area.
...students creating openly licensed instructional videos to improve understanding of course concepts for others in the class.
...students designing tests that are used to assess comprehension of course materials.
...students editing and revising the syllabus for a course.
...students creating and publishing a zine to discuss a theory, concept or provide practical guidance on a topic.

...a pedagogical technique which requires openly-licensed 'open educational resources (OER )'.

OER is any form of educational material (text, video, audio, images, units, entire course, question sets, exam questions, etc.) designed for teaching, learning and research, that is

available online
no cost
openly-licensed with one of four Creative Commons open licenses or in the public domain (no longer protected by copyright law)

...only possible due to OER's open licenses that allow the creation of new resources

Licenses are legal tools that allow a copyright owner to give someone else permission to make use of one or more of their copyrights (since copyright is actually a temporary 'bundle' of several rights). Most copyright owners charge fees for these licenses.

Open licenses are a specific kind of license with which a copyright owner can label their works which are available on the internet. These open licenses announce that the copyright owner is giving the public permission up front (without having to ask, or pay any money) to use their work in specific ways.

The open licenses used for OER were created by the Creative Commons non-profit organization:

CC BY

This license enables reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, so long as attribution is given to the creator. The license allows for commercial use.

CC BY-SA

This license enables reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, so long as attribution is given to the creator. The license allows for commercial use. If you remix, adapt, or build upon the material, you must license the modified material under identical terms.

CC BY-NC

This license enables reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator.

CC BY-NC-SA

This license enables reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator. If you remix, adapt, or build upon the material, you must license the modified material under identical terms.

The list of CC licenses above is modified from the About CC Licenses page of the Creative Commons website, which (except where otherwise noted) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.