Open Educational Practices (OEP), such as open pedagogy, utilize open educational resources (OER) to expand the academic freedom of educators and empowers them to create and curate their courses. It emphasizes collaboration and sharing to educate students on their role as information creators and disseminators rather than just consumers of information.
"Open pedagogy has many definitions. We are defining open pedagogy as projects or assignments which have the characteristics of: engaging with students as creators of information rather than simply consumers of it; experiential learning in which students demonstrate understanding through the act of creation; inviting students to be part of the teaching process/participating in the co-creation of knowledge; moving away from single-use assignments in favor of situated , collaborative , and renewable ones; Student agency in deciding if and how their work is shared ." (The Open Pedagogy Project Roadmap)
Assignments that we might normally think of are typically single-use, or disposable, assignments. Generally, a student might spend hours working on this assignment, the teacher will grade it, the student will get it back to review it, and then toss it out. Although these assignments are fairly standard, that time and effort could be applied to something more permanent or representative of the real-world content creation process. Renewable assignments involve the understanding that the content won't be discarded in the end and that, instead, it will contribute to the collective knowledge of the community.
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