COVID-19 accelerated change and pivoted librarian instructional priorities toward online learning modalities with a focus on using digital resources. Increased awareness and use of these digital Open Education Resources (OERs) has continued to rise post-pandemic. This session will introduce the intersection of the concepts of OERs, Open Pedagogy (OP), and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and provide a short description of a sabbatical research project around these topics. Using the research study findings, participants will discuss and reflect on strategies to integrate these open resources, tools, and concepts into their own teaching practice. This student-focused approach that uses OERs and OP to engage students in the sharing of power in learning communities has been reported in the literature to result in transforming teaching practice.
Participants will be able to:
- Take away a richer understanding of the opportunities and challenges and the 'why' behind OERS and integrating open pedagogy into current teaching practice.
- Reflect on their own institutional instructional context for OERs and open pedagogy
- Identify areas of open learning that they would like to explore and align to their broader campus initiatives.
