Open education
Collaborating to create and share knowledge to benefit all
Open education is a movement and philosophy which encompasses open resources and practices, to broaden access to high quality educational experiences and resources by removing barriers, such as costs.
Open education includes open research, open science and OER, but also extends to “embrace strategic decisions, teaching methods, collaboration between individuals and institutions, recognition of non-formal learning and different ways of making content available” (EU Science Hub, European Commission, 2016, CC BY).[1]
Articles
The power of peer engagement: exploring the effects of social collaborative annotation on reading comprehension of primary literature
This article reports qualitative findings explaining why online peer engagement using social collaboration annotation (SCA) with embedded prompts supported critical reading of reading primary literature in a broader mixed-methods intervention study with doctoral participants in spring 2022. Published in the journal AI, Computer Science and Robotics Technology.
Date published: 2023 | License: CC BY 4.0
Books
Higher education for good: teaching and learning futures
After decades of turbulence and acute crises in recent years, how can we build a better future for HE? Thoughtfully edited by Laura Czerniewicz and Catherine Cronin, this rich and diverse collection by academics and professionals from across 17 countries and many disciplines offers a variety of answers to this question. It addresses the need to set new values for universities, trapped today in narratives dominated by financial incentives and performance indicators, and examines those “wicked” problems which need multiple solutions, resolutions, experiments, and imaginaries.
Date published: 2023 | License: CC BY NC 4.0
Open at the margins: critical perspectives on open education
This book represents a starting point towards curating and centering marginal voices and non-dominant epistemic stances in open education. It includes the work of 43 diverse authors whose perspectives challenge the dominant hegemony. Published by the City University of New York.
Date published: 2023 | License: CC BY-SA 4.0
Contextualised open educational practices: towards student agency and self-directed learning
This book covers original research on the implementation of open educational practices through the use of open educational resources at the university level. The emphasis on open education in this book is on contextualising resources, supporting student agency and fostering self-directed learning specifically within a South African milieu.
Date published: 2022 | License: CC BY 4.0
Collections
Student-led pressbook collection
This collection features open pedagogy projects: student-authored OER that empower students to be involved in the creation of their course. These projects range from collections of essays to design portfolios, personal stories, research projects, student guides, and more. Compiled by pressbooks.
Date published: 2024 | License: Individual licenses are provided for each pressbook
Podcasts
OE global voices
This podcast invites educators to share their motivations and interests in an informal, conversational way. Listeners can explore a map of OEG Voices contributors to locate contributors in their area, including contributors from Ireland and the UK. Listen to the Catherine Cronin’s podcast episode or read the podcast transcript.
Date published: 2020 – current | License: CC BY 4.0
Toolkits
The open pedagogy student toolkit
This toolkit is intended as a guide for students who are engaging in open pedagogy. The toolkit defines open pedagogy, the benefits of open pedagogy, and the rights and responsibilities that come with being a student creator. Instructors may wish to use this toolkit as a resource to scaffold conversations about open pedagogy with their students and to appropriately prepare them for working in the open. Published by the Open Education Network.
Date published: 2024 | License: CC BY 4.0
Open education at TUS
TUS library is a proud supporter of open education, open research and open science initiatives within our institution. We facilitate web book publishing using pressbooks and support open access journal publishing.
Image credit: person using black tablet computer by Brooke Lark Unsplash license.
- What is open education? by the EU Science Hub. Available at: https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/what-open-education_en License: CC BY 4.0: licencehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. / ↵
