Open Pedagogy

Open Pedagogy is learning approach designed to give the learner a level of control over the educational process. Learners implement Open Education Practices (open planning, open products, open reflections) and utilize Open Educational Resources to promote the participation of learners as knowledge creators. This approach promotes collaboration, learners agency and reduces educational barriers. This approach partially aligns with Pod #5’s topic on how social media affects kids. Learners have autonomy in choosing content the material which the grades are based off and also given permission to access a wide range of resources, not constrained to academic resources and lastly respectful open-minded conversations are promoted.

When thinking of the topic ‘how social media affects kids’ open pedagogy can be beneficial learning approach. It advocacy for open resourcefulness, communication and being publicly opinionated is in line with core social-media values. Social-media encourages making new friends online, communicating respectfully on topics and also offer a wide variety of creator tools, aesthetically pleasing interaction design and content feed structure based off the topics users frequently search.

Social-media can be used as a tool for autonomous learning instead of endlessly doom scrolling and making themselves victims to distractions, learners can follow pages that align with the topic they aim to learn and intentionally bookmark information to revisit and reflect on. All this actions will improve the learners social-media feed and a procedural increasing returns to scale on learning will occur.

After meeting as a group our blueprint and interactive learning resource approach best fits into inquiry-based learning. Given weekly quiz activities, bi-weekly discussion boards and autonomous substantive reflections we all came to a conclusion that this approach will maximize merits from each learner. Although some principles of open pedagogy were utilized in the learning activities, our module approach does not fully align with it.

Reference:

Students as Knowledge Creators | Program for open scholarship and education. (2025). https://pose.open.ubc.ca/open-education/open-pedagogy/open-pedagogy-in-practice/