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Teaching in the open provides opportunities for both instructors and students to actively engage with open educational resources (OERs), open access and open pedagogy as they co-create their learning materials and environments. Working in the open requires us to learn to navigate issues of privacy, participation and ownership as we work with students to create learning resources and connect to communities who help us build and develop new knowledge.


Dr. Robin DeRosa is a professor of English at Plymouth State University and editor of Hybrid Pedagogy, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal that combines the strands of critical pedagogy and digital pedagogy to arrive at the best social and civil uses for technology and new media in education (About Robin DeRosa, 2016). In this short video, she touches on the key aspects of open education and reasons why they may be appealing to educators.

source: https://wiki.ubc.ca/Sandbox:New_Open_UBC/Teach_in_the_Open/What_is_it