Before this week, I did not know what Open Pedagogy was. After reading the first reading, I have and better understanding what it is. In many of my class, research paper topics were optional. This could lead to many different ideas and thoughts. I was able to research the topic and find outside sources to support my argument. This is an example of Open Pedagogy. In other words, Open Pedagogy is when students engage in open education. This is to allow for students to be the center of their own learning and “democratizing vision for the educational process” (Mays, 2017, p. 10). Students may be more engaged with their learning when they are given more freedom in topics. This is why open learning is beneficial to distributed learning. Students can use outside sources to find a topic and further educate themselves on it. If there was not open learning sources, the sources would be limited.
Moreover, I was surprised to read about the privacy concern from Gilliard & Culik (2016). The alarming of the “inappropriate” material (Gillard & Culik, 2019), shows that teachers and professors are watching what students are doing on the computer. There is no privacy for the students research what they would like without the teacher knowing. This reminds me of Brightspace. Professors can see how many times a student has logged on, how much they have read, replied, and started discussions. This learning management system, does have privacy concerns. In addition, the system features benefits the professor to easily keep track of the students in the class. It shows who is active and who is not without reading through the students work. This makes me wonder if I have privacy when connect to school WI-FI. People should be able to research what they would like without getting alarmed or having others see what one is doing.
References
Gilliard, C., & Culik, H. (2016, May 24). Digital Redlining, Access, and Privacy. Common Sense Education.
Mays, E. (Ed.). (2017). A guide to making open textbooks with students. Rebus Community.