Open educational practices (OEP) embody learning approaches that draw on collaborative and flexible learning environments, participatory learning, knowledge creation and sharing, learner activity and agency, and open sharing. Explanations of how to plan for OEP are limited. The Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge framework (TPACK) examines the complexities of integrating technology into instruction. When OEP is layered onto TPACK, educators become aware of the content, pedagogy, and technology knowledge needed as related to open practices and consider these aspects to design more socially just learning environments. Without an intentional and critical examination of the knowledge, skills, and dispositions required by OEP in specific content areas, instructors risk reducing, rather than expanding, access, participation, and equity. In this session, attendees will examine how the TPACK framework can be used to design and facilitate thoughtful, intentional, and equitable OEP.
Attendees of this session will be able to:- Understand the content, pedagogical, and technological knowledge demands (TPACK) of open education
- Interrogate the intersections of open educational practices and the TPACK framework through a lens of social justice
- Identify specific open activities (pedagogies) and tools (technologies) that can be applied in various subjects and contexts (content)
- Design thoughtful and intentional open learning environments and instruction through the TPACK framework
