Presentation at the 2017 National Institute for the Teaching of Psychology

1. “Giving Psychology Away”
via Open Pedagogy
UniversityTeaching Fellow & Psychology Instructor, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Senior Open EducationAdvocacy & Research Fellow, BCcampus
Rajiv Jhangiani, Ph.D.
@thatpsychprof

2. “higher education
shall be equally
accessible to all”

3. The
cost
barrier
kept
2.4
million
low
and
moderate-­‐income
college-­‐qualified
high
school
graduates
from
completing
college
in
the
previous
decade
The Advisory Committee on StudentFinancial Assistance http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED529499.pdf

4. $2,000
$3,000
$4,000
$5,000
$6,000
$7,000
$8,000
$9,000
1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013
US
Higher
Education
Funding
-­‐ $/FTE
State Funding Tuition Revenue
http://www.sheeo.org

5. 0
200
400
600
800
1,000
1,200
1,400
1,600
1,800
1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010
Hours
@
Minimum
Wage
Hours
of
Work
Required
to
Afford
Tuition
(University
of
Minnesota)

11. 66.5% Not
purchase
the
required textbook
47.6% Take
fewer
courses
45.5% Not
register
for
a
specific
course
37.6% Earn
a
poor
grade
26.1% Drop
a
course
19.8% Fail
a
course
2016
Florida
Student
Textbook
Survey
11

12. Revise Remix
Retain Redistribute
Reuse
Source:
David
Wiley,
http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/3221
March
5,
2014,
CC-­‐BY
open
=
free
+
permissions

13. “I can imagine nothing we could do that would be more
relevant to human welfare and nothing that could pose a
greater challenge to the next generation of psychologists
than to discover how best to give psychology away”

14. – G.
A.
Miller
GeorgeA.Miller (1920-2012)

19. ~1.6 million take Introductory Psychology
>90,000 Bachelor’s degrees in Psychology
~25% pursue graduate work
~5% enroll in a doctoral program
Gurung et
al.
(2016);
Halonen (2011)

20. "France
in
2000
year
(XXI
century).
Future
school." by Jean
Marc
Cote is
in
the Public
Domain

22. JohnW. Gardner (1912-2002)
“All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when
we should be teaching them to grow their own plants”

23. "Recycling
Water
Bottles" by Mr.TinDC is
licensed
under CC
BY-­‐ND
2.0

26. Examples

27. Open
Pedagogy:
HOW
Deeper
learning(Farzan &
Kraut,
2013)
Evaluate
and
defend
credibility
of
sources
(Marentette,
2014)
Write
more
concisely
and
think
more
critically
(Farzan &
Kraut,
2013)
Collaborate
with
students
from
around
the
world(Karney,
2012)
Provide
and
receive
constructive
feedback(Ibrahim,
2012)
Enhance
digital
literacy
(Silton,
2012)
Communicate
ideas
to
a
general
audience
(APS,
2013)

30. 22,000
37,000+
97%
Students
who
have
taken
on
Wikipedia
assignments
since
2010
New
articles
that
students
have
created
Instructors
who
say
they
will,
or
plan
to,
teach
with
Wikipedia
again

31. “The students also realized they were a valuable asset toWikipedia.
Their thinkingand writing skills as well as their access to an
extensive academic library were not broadly shared.
As knowledge translators,they could also provide a
service to the general public by clearly communicatingbasic
concepts about language acquisition.They wondered who their
readers might be:parents? teachers? students in developing countries?
One thing that the students uniformly loved about this project
was the possibility of other people seeing and recognizing
their work.” (Marentette, 2014,p.37).

32. “They felt their work was meaningful because their
contributionsare shared with the entire world,rather than just their
instructor.They liked that their contributionswill not end up in a
drawer after the semester ends,but will continue to be available to
many people as a useful resource.
Some students even noted with pride that their contributions
might have wider use than some articles published in academic
journals.” (Ibrahim, 2012, p.29)

35. PM4ID

36. Why
have
students just
answer
questions
when
they
can
write them?

37. Students
Topics
Questions
35
10
1400

40. "GB
Airways
A320"by Tony
Evans is
licensed
under CC
BY-­‐ND
2.0

41. "IMG_1007"by Erica is
licensed
under CC
BY
2.0

42. Backwards Course Design
Learning Outcome Activities Assessment strategy
Understand and
differentiate between the
encoding,storage,
retrieval of memory
● Assign relevantsection
of textbook as required
reading
● Use lecture material to
highlight processes of
memory
●Various mini-activities
testing student memory
● Exam questions where
students must recognize
and differentiate the
memory processes

43. Backwards Course Design
Learning Outcome Activities Assessment strategy
Understand and
differentiate between the
encoding,storage,
retrieval of memory
● Assign relevantsection
of textbook as required
reading
● Use lecture material to
highlight processes of
memory
●Various mini-activities
testing student memory
● Exam questions where
students must recognize
and differentiate the
memory processes
●Write/improve a wiki
article about memory
processes

44. Backwards Course Design
Learning Outcome Activities Assessment strategy
Understand and
differentiate between the
encoding,storage,
retrieval of memory
● Assign relevantsection
of textbook as required
reading
● Use lecture material to
highlight processes of
memory
●Various mini-activities
testing student memory
● Exam questions where
students must recognize
and differentiate the
memory processes
●Write/improve a wiki
article about memory
processes
Connect the concept of
memory to useful and
more efficient study habits
● Use lecture material to
highlight effective study
strategies
● Assign Stephen Chew’s
videos about effective
study strategies
● Design a poster that
quickly and clearly
explains effective study
strategies; distribute
across campus ahead of
final exam period

45. goo.gl/Sq95s7

46. Tips
• Work towards producing a resource that others will find
useful
• Products can be refined across cohorts
• If the assignment requires students to develop and exercise a
new skill, plan to provide instruction and support
throughout the process
• May have to develop or locate an appropriate grading rubric
• Successes and failures are much more public
• Opportunity to share, collaborate, and receive feedback

47. @thatpsychprof
Rajiv@kpu.ca
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