This session is pre-recorded and will not be held live. The pre-recorded video will be available for logged-in attendees to view at any time during the conference.
This presentation showcases an Open Pedagogy project in which students wrote an open-source textbook from start to finish. Five diverse University of Oregon undergraduate students and one graduate student project manager created ten multimedia, interactive textbook chapters for LING 144, Learning How to Learn Languages. This text focuses on the theory, research, and strategies for learning languages, including heritage languages and indigenous languages in danger of disappearing. Team members collaborated weekly for six months, dividing up work on writing, illustration, case studies, and multimedia elements. This book will become the main text for LING 144 (serving 200 students per year) and will be a living document that future students can annotate and update for course credit. In the presentation, team members will tell the story of their process, highlighting the purpose and content of the project and its Pressbooks platform.
Attendees of this session will be able to:- Identify the successes and challenges of an example of a student-created Open Pedagogy project.
- Identify the timeline and resources necessary for a project of this scope.
- Identify the roles and processes of a student team.
- Appreciate the benefits to students of leadership and agency in Open Pedagogy.
- Appreciate the benefits to faculty in facilitating student-led work.
- Appreciate the value of contributing to open educational resources.
