The Maple League Teaching and Learning Committee warmly invites you to our next Maple League Better Together event: Students as Knowledge Creators: Approaches to Open Pedagogy with Sam Read, St. Francis Xavier University.

 

Description: This presentation will introduce participants to Open Pedagogy, also known as Open Educational Resource (OER)-Enabled Pedagogy. Renewable assignments open doors to innovative teaching opportunities, allowing students to submit work that evolves with their learning and endures beyond the life cycle of the course itself. This approach engages students in using, reusing, revising, remixing and redistributing open content, all while promoting adaptability and lifelong learning. Several examples of this type of project will be covered in this presentation, along with a discussion of the ways in which librarians are uniquely positioned to partner with faculty in their exploration of this new technique. Let’s work together to foster student agency in making the shift from knowledge consumption to knowledge creation.

 

 

Sam is originally from Western Newfoundland & Labrador and studied French literature at MTA & the University of Guelph before attending library school at Dalhousie University. Over the past 14 years, Sam has worked in a wide variety of sectors within the library field: at a national museum, in records management, archives, public libraries, school libraries and now, an academic library. As Digital Initiatives & Data Services Librarian at St. Francis Xavier University, she is committed to improving library services to undergraduate students through the intersection of student-centred teaching practices and Open Education.

 

If you have any thoughts or questions, please email the Director of the VMLTLC, Juan Carlos López at jlopez@acadiau.ca.