messiness
The word "messiness" is the opposite of perfection. It is aligned with being in flux and open to constant change.
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- Oct 2019
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openpedagogy.org openpedagogy.org
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Open texts are undoubtedly public, but they are far from finished products. And this is a good thing.
a most excellent thing
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The ever-changing and delightfully imperfect character of these open texts inspires future learning opportunities, blurs the boundaries between discrete classes, builds a broader sense of intellectual community amongst students, and calls instructors and students to embrace the messiness of learning.
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Indeed, as Robin DeRosa and Rajiv Jhangiani write, “[t]hough students may be beginners with most of the content in your course, they are often more adept than you at understanding what beginning students need in order to understand the material.”
and also ask different kinds of questions and help us push against our own boundaries and limitations.
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An ever-proliferating phenomenon, The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature is far from a completed, perfected, “public product.” In many ways, it has only just begun.
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as conversations that build and become more complex each year.
I love this--and that this allows students to be more more a part of these dialogs.
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To utilize open texts is to invite students into the challenging and often thorny process of knowledge-production
which is exactly where we hope students eventually want to be right in the middle of.
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they committed the cardinal sin of citing information from Wikipedia?
Egads--not Wikipedia! Yet, a great example of a public and open collaborative project, not without its flaws, but a continuously evolving product.
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This student-created, student-structured text offers a user-friendly introduction to the world of critical theory—an invaluable resource for theory newbies
This is such an important consideration for open authorship of textbooks and similar OER. Those just stepping through threshold concepts are perhaps best positioned to write about them in a way that is immediate and at-hand for the novice.
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free public student work from the tyranny of perfection
YES!!
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“public” conjures up the idea of a scholarly, potentially judgmental audience, at least for me
This is something others I've supported with their public-facing projects, both Pressbooks and Domain of One's Own, have shared with me. It's a real concern and having at hand some language for prefaces or introductions that I can share is something I'd like to do.
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Against “Product-Based Learning”: Open Texts are Never Finished
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www.jessestommel.com www.jessestommel.com
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“Knowledge consumption and knowledge creation are not separate but parallel processes, as knowledge is co-constructed, contextualized, cumulative, iterative, and recursive.”
exactly!
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Why would I choose these texts before even meeting the students and understanding their needs? Is there a better way to allow students multiple points of entry to a course? Can I use free online readings instead? Recommended print books? And only require students buy materials those students see as having value beyond a single semester?
While libraries are purchasing fewer print books, we are still providing access to a wide range of content, in a variety of formats, that is an often overlooked resource for use within courses. It goes way beyond course reserves (which I recognize is also a foreign concept to many of today's students--and faculty). Librarians are also often well situated to help discover those resources, but also the range of open textbooks, OERs, open data, etc.
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inclusive access
Words matter, and marketing teams really capitalize on that.
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But, increasingly, commercial textbook companies are confusing the movement by pushing high-cost digital alternatives to textbooks. Students are offered limited licenses to these books and so they are, in a sense, only renting access to a digital file that is much less flexible than a print book.
This also constrains libraries, as well as other campus affordability initiatives, from providing access to these textbooks.
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Textbooks are a social justice issue.
More so with each year. Access to information, access to learning should not be monopolized.
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The emphasis of open pedagogy can't be on how we copyright, license, and share content. That can be one tiny piece, but it's a mostly metaphorical one, and an offshoot of the deeper and more necessary social justice work: seeing students as full humans, as agents, not customers
I'm reminded of points Robin DeRosa makes. Progressing through a social justice motivation that begins in access to textbooks, but moves beyond toward access to knowledge, and ultimately access to knowledge creation necessarily democratizes learning.
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Textbooks, OER, and the Need for Open Pedagogy
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