At the OE Global meetings I have constantly been thinking about the need for more concrete examples of open pedagogy. I like the “ pre-flight checklist ” for open pedagogy, and wanted to contribute a few ideas. Focusing on renewable assignments as open pedagogy , I think there are basically three categories of renewable assignments (though I’m open for correction).
Renewable Assignments that Primarily Benefit the Public
One category of renewable assignments are those that connect with Wikipedia. Clear examples exist, such as “ Murder, Madness & Mayhem , ” More recently, Azzam taught classes to fourth year medical students over a two year period of time in which editing Wikipedia articles related to medicine was the primary purpose of the class. For additional examples of this type of renewable assignment see this list of Wikipedia related projects and 6% of science edits made by students . Another set of open pedagogies