Topic 4: OER-enabled Pedagogy

This week’s reading made me think deeply about open education resources(OER). Many of the examples in the article demonstrate that OER-enabled pedagogy not only engage students more actively in learning and building knowledge, but also offer assistant for subsequent learners. 

I really like the word “renewable assignment” that is mentioned in the article, where assignments can support individual student learning and create follow-up value. For most students, after a course is over, the content learned is useless because it won’t be used in later courses. However, if the purpose of learning a course is just to complete assignment and pass the exam, then the meaning of study is lost. Therefore, I think that the OER-enabled pedagogy allies students to learn more deeply than traditional teaching method. Since when a student creates meaningful works, he should master relative knowledge completely, so that he can design questions or give explanations for other students. This can do nothing but improve students motivation toward studying and the quality of teaching. 

Going back to the course EDCI339, whether reading articles and posting ideas in the form of blogs, or exchanging opinions through comments, these methods help us create value for others while learning knowledge. Looking back to the first week of the class, the survey about whether or not to agree to public blogging is what made the class so “open”.