Developing Open Practices in Teacher Education: An Example of Integrating OER and Developing Renewable Assignments

Authors

Jennifer Van Allen, CUNY Lehman CollegeFollow
Stacy Katz, CUNY Lehman CollegeFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-30-2019

Abstract

This manuscript offers a reasoning for and example of integrating Open Educational Resources (OER) and open pedagogy within a teacher education course. We highlight a collaborative partnership between library faculty and education faculty and the decision points and processes we used when redesigning this course to provide an example of adopting OER and our considerations for developing a renewable assignment. The benefits of using OER for K-12 teachers include increasing awareness of and providing opportunities to develop open practices. The transition to a renewable assignment creates a space for teaching candidates to meaningfully contribute to the profession and engage in collaboration across time and space. Teacher education programs provide an ideal space to develop digital literacies and open practices.

Comments

This work was originally published in Open Praxis, available at https://doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.11.3.972.

This work is distributed under a Creative Commons Attributions 4.0 International License.