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Presenter Biography
Kimberly Puttman: I am a sociologist, educator, community activist, and proud author of Inequality and Interdependence: Social Problems and Social Justice. Kathryn Burrows: I am a sociologist specializing in medicine, mental health, and their intersections with technology, and author of Chapter 10: Who Gets Well: Health as a Social Problem and Chapter 12: Who Feels OK? The Social Problem of Mental Health. Michelle Culley: I'm an independent instructional designer with a focus on creating engaging and accessible learning experiences. I collaborated with Open Oregon Educational Resources on the Targeted Pathways project. In addition, I am an instructor teaching a community-based senior Capstone.
Start Date
5-2-2025 10:45 AM
End Date
5-2-2025 11:20 AM
Subjects
Open Educational Resources, OER
Description
As teachers, we’ve struggled with glazed eyes, blank looks, and preparing lectures that seem to go nowhere. As students, we’ve struggled to stay awake and complained about course content and materials that don’t seem to make a difference in our lives.
Open, engaged pedagogy using open educational resources addresses this struggle by changing the paradigm. Learning is a practice of freedom. In this model, learners are teachers, and teachers are learners.
We’ll describe our journey with the Guided Pathways Project with Open Oregon Educational Resources. Together, we developed 12 free textbooks and courses in Sociology, HDFS, and Criminal Justice. But more than saving money, we increased learner confidence and teacher efficacy. And we supported DEI too.
How did we do it? By using principles of open engaged pedagogy - the idea that students come into the classroom with strengths, that they can create knowledge, and that this knowledge can become part of a wider, more inclusive project.
Creative Commons License/Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/43552
Room 2: Fostering Belonging and Success Through Open Engaged Pedagogy
As teachers, we’ve struggled with glazed eyes, blank looks, and preparing lectures that seem to go nowhere. As students, we’ve struggled to stay awake and complained about course content and materials that don’t seem to make a difference in our lives.
Open, engaged pedagogy using open educational resources addresses this struggle by changing the paradigm. Learning is a practice of freedom. In this model, learners are teachers, and teachers are learners.
We’ll describe our journey with the Guided Pathways Project with Open Oregon Educational Resources. Together, we developed 12 free textbooks and courses in Sociology, HDFS, and Criminal Justice. But more than saving money, we increased learner confidence and teacher efficacy. And we supported DEI too.
How did we do it? By using principles of open engaged pedagogy - the idea that students come into the classroom with strengths, that they can create knowledge, and that this knowledge can become part of a wider, more inclusive project.