Here are links to examples of projects you can use for inspiration or models,
resources for your own open pedagogy projects, and OP presentations.
(Note: All external links open in new windows.)
Project Types:
- Blogs:
- Vanderbilt University Course Blogs:
- The Solar System, Erika Grundstrom (Astronomy)
- The Cinematic Essay, Jonathan Rattner (Cinema & Media Studies)
- Science/Fiction, Jay Clayton (English) and Robert Scherer (Physics)
- Picture It: Literature, Photography, and Memory, Alison Schachter (English)
- Vandy Performs, Christin Essin (Theatre)
- William Blake and Enlightenment Media, Humberto Garcia (English)
- Neely’s News for Children’s Literature Enthusiasts, Ann Neely (Teaching & Learning)
- Cryptography: The History and Mathematics of Codes and Code Breaking, Derek Bruff (Mathematics)
- Kendra Oliver and Richard Coble, Teaching with Blogs – Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University
- 60. Inclusive Teaching – a Tea for Teaching podcast in which Danica Savoca discusses how students in her class posted public blogs in the HASTAC community.
- Stephens, M. (2016). Connected Learning: Evaluating and Refining an Academic Community Blogging Platform. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 57(4), 295-310.
- Collections:
- Fashion History Timeline at FIT
- Baltimore Uprising 2015 Archive Project
- Appalachian Oral History Project Interviews, 1965-1989
- Fashion History Timeline – Justine De Young describes the Fashion History Timeline Project at FIT in this 3/6/2019 webinar presentation
- How do I engage students in oral history projects? – Oral History Association
- ePortfolios:
- Student ePortfolio samples – Department of Writing and Rhetoric, University of Central Florida
- WordPress for Student ePortfolios – Monroe Library libguide, Loyola University, New Orleans
- Glossaries:
- Students’ final projects from SUNY-Cortland: Glossary of Keywords for Literary Studies
- 56. Love’s Labor Not Lost – Tea for Teaching podcast in which Mya Brown describes a project in which students create a Glossary.
- 60. Inclusive Teaching – A Tea for Teaching podcast in which Danica Savonick describes her student’s Glossary of Keywords for Literary Studies project at SUNY-Cortland
- Vanderbilt University Course Blogs:
- Econometric Analysis Undergraduate Research Papers – student research papers from Shatakshee Dhongde’s Econometric Analysis class at Georgia Tech
- Podcasts:
- VandyVox – a podcast series that features the best student podcasts at Vanderbilt University
- Voices of Oswego Veterans Student Podcast project
- Getting Started with Student Podcast Assignments – Duke Learning Innovations
- 7. Student Writing – Tea for Teaching podcast with Stephanie Pritchard that discusses the Voices of Oswego Veterans Podcast Assignment
- Voices of Oswego Veterans Podcast Assignment Overview
- Buddle, Chris (2013). “Hear This! Podcasts as an assessment tool in higher education June 19.
- Remix and annotate online content:
- Dwayne Dixon’s Rhizome Experiment, Fall 2015.
- 57. Scalar – a Tea for Teaching podcast in which Fiona Coll discusses how her students use Scalar for writing, annotating, and remixing online content.
- Hypothesis for Higher Education
- Annotating the Marginal Syllabus -Teaching in Higher Ed podcast with Remi Kalir, April 4, 2019
- Dixon’s article about Rhizome Experiment: “Imagining the Essay as Digital Assemblage: Collaborative Student Experiments with Writing in Scalar.” Prompt: A Journal of Academic Writing Assignments, v. 1, n. 1, Dec. 2016.
- Service learning:
- Smithsonian Digital Volunteers Transcription Center: Browse Projects
- Citizen Archivist Missions – National Archives
- Volunteer from Home – Crowdsourcing Transcription of Historical Documents Library, Indiana University East. May 14,2018
- Service Learning Ideas – Estrella Mountain Community College
- Smithsonian Digital Volunteers
- Citizen Archivist Dashboard
- By the People Transcription for the Library of Congress
- Transcribe TED Talks
- “Transcribe the military records of African American soldiers in the American Civil War
- Student created ancillaries:
- Wiki Education
- Jhangiani, Rajiv (2017). “Why Have Students Answer Questions When they Can Write Them?” January 12.
- Nelson, Amy (2019). “Collaborative Syllabus Design – Students at the Center. Sirius Reflections March 8.”
- Cohen, S., González-Arévalo, B., & Pivarski, M. (2016). Students as partners in curricular design: Creation of student-generated calculus projects. arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.06333.
- Student created books:
- The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature – Robin DeRosa’s first student-created book project
- Models and Mechanisms of Public Health – An open pedagogy project involving 75 students in Jessica Kruger’s class at the University at Buffalo
- My Open Textbook: Pedagogy and Practice – Robin DeRosa describes two textbooks on Early American Literature created by her students
- 55. Open Pedagogy a Tea for Teaching podcast in which Robin DeRosa describes how students created annotated anthologies.
- 66. Just-in-Time Textbook – A Tea for Teaching podcast in which Jessica Kruger discusses how her class of 75 students created a textbook for their own course.
- Pressbooks.com – A platform, based on WordPress, for online book creation.
- A Guide to Making Open Textbooks with Students
- Videos:
- DTU 02807 – Apache Mesos
- H2O Tutorial
- 20 Video Projects to Engage Students
- Making students create public tutorial videos as a course assignment – Eduflow, March 24, 2016.
- Adobe Spark Education
- Wikis:
- Wiki Edu – Wikipedia provides a structured framework for class assignments based in which students contribute to wikipedia.
- Choral Explanations – A discussion of how sites such as Quora and Yahoo Answers combine some of the best features of a discussion forum and a wiki.
Additional Resources:
- SUNY Open Pedagogy Explorer – A collection in Twine!
- Open Pedagogy Notebook – An extensive collection of resources created by the open pedagogy community
- Austin Community College’s Open Educational Resources – Open Pedagogy Examples
- Open Education Group: Renewable Assignments – Assignments in which students build upon and expand existing OER content
- Ed Beck – Instructional Designer – This contains several links to open pedagogy projects
- SUNY Create
- SUNY Open Pedagogy Projects
- SUNY OER Community Course Series
- SUNY OER Services: Embracing Open Pedagogy
- SUNY Open Pedagogy Master Class
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