Introduction

The OER & Open Pedagogy Community of Practice (CoP) started in Fall 2019. The inspiration for the CoP came from Kathy Swart’s session about open pedagogy and social justice at the Cascadia Open Education Summit.

Faculty met to have open discussions on how to incorporate open pedagogy in their courses to advance social justice, inclusion, and equity into their disciplines. Faculty were encouraged to bring assignments to share — either an example of an open assignment they were already doing or an assignment they wanted to transform. Faculty enjoyed sharing and brainstorming ideas with each other and benefited from other viewpoints outside of their disciplines.

Interest in exploring a publishing platform for OER creation led to an institutional subscription to Pressbooks EDU at the end of Spring 2019.

The CoP Goals for 2020-2021 are:

• Explore and identify emerging open pedagogy trends, tools, frameworks, etc.
• Discover how to use open pedagogy in our disciplines
• Create OER or implement OER-enabled open pedagogy in our classes

Faculty have created this Pressbook for two purposes: 1) to capture the work of the OER & Open Pedagogy CoP and 2) to explore and learn how to use the Pressbook publishing platform for OER-enabled open pedagogy assignments in their courses.