Tutorial: Opening Up Education
7. Attributes of Open Pedagogy
Hegarty (2015) describes eight attributes of open pedagogy:
- Participatory technologies: socially constructed media such as blogs, wikis and other ‘sharing’ social media;
- People, openness and trust: students’ willingness to learn is fragile, with participation and interactions unlikely to flourish unless an element of trust can be built (Mak et. al., 2010);
- Innovation and creativity: finding new models of teaching and learning that better exploit OER and more emphasis on choosing digital technologies and methods that encourage the sharing of knowledge and resources;
- Sharing ideas and resources: an open pedagogy needs peers to share willingly within a connected and trusting and professional community;
- Connected community: a technologically linked community with common interests;
- Learner-generated: this requires ‘opening up’ the process to empower students to take the lead, solve problems, and work collectively to produce artifacts that they share, discuss, reconfigure, and redeploy;
- Reflective practice: when students and teachers collaborate in partnerships, it facilitates deeper pedagogical reflection;
- Peer review: Conole (2014) sees learners as publishers and users of a range of open tools, with peer interactions and critique embedded in the learning experience.
Hegarty also makes the point that it is almost impossible to separate the components of an open pedagogy into neat, segregated dimensions. Components in each of the eight dimensions overlap in many ways.
Watch the following video entitled 8 Attributes of Open Pedagogy - Hegarty (2015).
The transcript and MP4 file may be downloaded from the folders: Videos for download and Transcripts for download.
Video: 8 Attributes of Open Pedagogy - Hegarty (2015) [3:47]
This video is created by UPRC and is adapted from Attributes of Open Pedagogy by Bronwyn Hegarty and