Example 1:

Traditional Education: Instructor gives students exams and asks them to answer questions.

Open Pedagogy: Having students create and peer review exam questions and answers to them as a way to help them gain a deeper understanding of concepts learned in class.

Example 2:

Traditional Education: Faculty provides core readings for the course.

Open Pedagogy: Students examine why core readings are core – what role did/do they play in the discipline. They develop a bibliography that explains that role, relating it to current work in the field. Subsequent classes update the bibliography, adding perspective to the original readings, adding readings they believe are now core and describing why for the next group of students.

Example 3:

Traditional Education: Students research a current issue related to a northwestern Native American tribe.

Open Education: Students determine the gaps in the commonly available literature and interview members of a tribe in order to add native voice to the available perspectives. The bibliography is published in an open format. Students discuss what gets published, why, and whose voice is left out of “published” conversations.

Sources: "Why have students answer questions when they can write them?" Rajiv Jhangiani, Ph. D., 12 Jan. 2017, https://thatpsychprof.com/why-have-students-answer-questions-when-they-can-write-them/; West, Quill, "Open Pedagogy Practicalities" PowerPoint presentation.