What is open pedagogy?
Open pedagogy is an educational approach that aim to help everyone to get access to free educational resources. It uses open resources to enhance learning and encouraging students to be part of the education progress, instead of just the reciever. This helps the students to participate in the education and the educators can focus more on the interaction with the students.
The Role and Impact of OER?
Different from the traditional education resources, open eudcational resources not only allow educators to freely use and sharing, but also allow educators to edit and adapt the resources for the users. These recources usually have higher quality, more flexible to use, and easier to get comparing with traditional learning resources. It is an important tool that are licensed for the educators to tailor and fit for specific types of learners, which gives it higher effecitive.
Global Trends in OER:
As many countries are adopting OER globaly, this is caused mostly by the increasing economics and technology, and can increase the education effectiveness by a huge amount. Both domesitc policy and international trend toward the usage of OER encourage that students can easily get acess to the OER not only from domestic webistes, but also lisenced knowledge from abroad. For example, the increasing reproduction of the Youtube videos in China, along with other leanring videos and articles are becoming popular for Chinese people, and people can get acess to it freely without any barriers.
Attributes of Open Pedagogy:
From my perspective, the student-centered attribute of OER is very closely related to my study, using humanized and user-kindly educational resources can increase my learning effcient. I can share and discuss those knowledge with other sutdents to cross-reference the stuff and reinforce the memory. The transperency helps the others to a more obvious learning environment, which encourages the others to join into the OER learning. The collabration and sharing is also important in daily studying, the instructor should can construct a more transparent leraning progress with the students, enhance the interaction within the class, let any students to have a fun and relaxing learning environment.
November 13, 2024 at 9:19 pm
This blog post provides a well-rounded overview of open pedagogy and the role of Open Educational Resources (OER) in promoting accessible, interactive, and student-centered learning. Open pedagogy’s emphasis on student involvement transforms learners from passive recipients into active participants, which can deepen their engagement and enhance critical thinking. The description of OER as a flexible and high-quality alternative to traditional resources captures its value for educators and students alike, particularly when they can customize materials to meet specific learning needs.
The mention of global OER trends is also insightful, as more countries are integrating OER into educational systems, aided by advances in technology. The example of educational videos in China reflects this trend well, demonstrating how freely accessible, diverse resources are helping bridge learning gaps. Overall, this approach to open pedagogy and OER not only supports collaborative and transparent learning but also fosters a more inclusive and effective educational environment