This is the least familiar aspect of open education to most, likely because it is the most challenging in terms of changing practice. Open pedagogy has learners as active participants and co-creators of their own learning experiences. And while it can greatly assist in building important skills, it also involves a lessening of control on the side of the educator. This can be scary.
KPU (Kwantlen Polytechnic University) an innovator in all things open, breaks down open pedagogy:
an access-oriented commitment to learner-driven education. It is also a process of designing architectures and using tools for learning that enable students to shape the public knowledge commons of which they are a part.
Open pedagogy can include creating, adapting, or updating OER with students, building course policies, outcomes, assignments, rubrics, and schedules of work collaboratively with students, or facilitating student-created and student-controlled learning environments.
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You can start small. Co-create a rubric with your students; it's a great way in to open pedagogy. Two inspiring open practitioners, Robin DeRosa and Rajiv Jhangiani, created the Open Pedagogy Notebook to share ideas. It builds on the wonderful work of Terry Greene's Open Faculty Patchwork.