OpenSem: A Student-Generated Handbook for the First Year of College

This book was created entirely by students in a Fall 2016 section of First-Year Seminar at Plymouth State University. We called the course “OpenSem” because it was organized around a core set of open pedagogical practices. The theme for the course was “Whose Course Is This, Anyway?” Students created all learning outcomes, assignments, course policies, and grading processes. Students curated content and built the syllabus as the course unfolded. Students published all work to their own public ePorts, licensed that work openly, and then leant a sampling of that work to this collection for easy sharing. You can check out our hashtag on Twitter at #opensem, and view the syllabus at http://robinderosa.net/opensem/. This collection is licensed CCBY, and we hope other courses will take this as a starting point, improve and add to this work, and help students to grow a truly learner-developed first-year college curricula! A version of this work is also available at https://press.rebus.community/opensem

The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature

This is an anthology of public domain texts from earlier American literature, collected by students, faculty, and alumnae of Plymouth State University as an OER alternative to expensive commercial anthologies. The project is now developing through the Rebus Community, under the direction of managing editor Timothy Robbins, so users are encouraged to visit Rebus online to find additional information about and subsequent iterations of this book. This work is also available on the Pressbooks platform at https://openamlit.pressbooks.com

Open Pedagogy

Chapter in the book Scholarly Communication Librarianship and Open Knowledge Editors: Maria Bonn, Joshua Bolick, and William Cross Publisher: The Association of College Research Libraries Year: 202

How to Open Pedagogy: Tools and Techniques for Transforming Teaching

In this workshop, we will explore the possible ways that OER and Open Pedagogy can enliven courses, empower students, and excite faculty. We will look at real examples of creative and successful Open Ped assignments from across multiple disciplines, and cover some of the most useful tools that are out there to help faculty engage students with their scholarly and professional communities beyond the university walls. There will be an opportunity to engage in a short design sprint focused around a course assignment, and participants will leave with concrete ideas about how they can reduce the cost of course materials, bring connected learning pedagogies into their curriculum, and empower their students to contribute to the knowledge commons

Keynote: What is Cluster Pedagogy?

My current research and advocacy work focus on Open Education, and how universities can innovate in order to bring down costs for students, increase interdisciplinary collaboration, and refocus the academic world on strengthening the public good. I am a professor at Plymouth State University, part of the University System of New Hampshire, where I direct the Interdisciplinary Studies program. I am also an editor for Hybrid Pedagogy, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal that combines the strands of critical pedagogy and digital pedagogy to arrive at the best social and civil uses for technology and new media in education