Co-designing a Course with Students
Losing ‘control’ of a class used to be a source of anxiety for me. (I even wrote about it in a post on this very site in 2021!) In my earliest days as a professor, I sought comfort in having...
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Allowing Student Interest to Shape Open Pedagogy
One of the things I love about the open pedagogy initiative is that it operates through some of the same concepts that are at the heart of my research. Karen Barad suggests that as researchers, we should consider our work...
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Building a Course Website in Collaboration with Students
My initial proposal for the Open Pedagogy Fellowship was to refine a student-led class activity I developed for my upper-level literature course, “Representations of ‘the Criminal.’” However, the conversations I had with my Open Pedagogy Fellowship cohort over the summer...
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What Are the Next Steps with H5P?
As I continue along the steep and windy path of learning and applying the H5P technology to my Dental Hygiene General and Oral Pathology course, I believe I can answer the question that I posed in the 2021 UNH Open...
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Transformative and Inclusive Learning
It was with great excitement that I applied for the Open Pedagogy fellowship this past spring 2021. I have a high appreciation for any project that is innovative, agile, and targeted to create a learning community. Many thanks to my...
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OER in Canvas
This summer, I got the opportunity to participate in the Open Pedagogy Fellowship program to develop a module on Economic Analysis for Renewable Energy Generation in engineering courses. The idea of developing this module started with a talk with my...
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Jumping in and swimming in new, deep waters with Open Pedagogy
This summer’s workshop on Open Pedagogy pushed me to develop an approach to teaching introductory History courses that escape the pattern I had settled in for a number of years: me lecturing in each class period while students (supposedly) complete...
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Incorporating Student Feedback
I found the Open Pedagogy Fellowship and the incorporation of student reviewers into the creation of classroom materials invigorating. Over the last two years, I have asked students in my HIST 1000 classes to write articles on a public website...
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A communications course built with students
This summer I had the opportunity to start my journey with open pedagogy. The amount of information and content was overwhelming at first. However, with the help of colleagues, I learned how to sift through the information and started to...
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Reflections on Open Pedagogy
Participating in open pedagogy this summer provided me with an opportunity to reflect on myself as an educator, a peer and a student. I recently finished my Master of Public Health degree and found that I learned the most from...
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