Our team (Ashley Breton, Emma Keating, Karen McMurray, and Ash Senini) will present a micro-course on Open Educational Practices where participants will explore how openness might change the role of their online facilitation. Open educational practices (OEP), is the use of open educational resources (OER) to “support learning, or the open sharing of teaching practices with a goal of improving education and training at the institutional, professional, and individual level” (BCcampus, n.d., para. 1). In our week of facilitation our goal is to demonstrate an open facilitation practice as well as have students engage with an open practice in their activities and assessment.

 

Facilitation Week Plan October 9 – 15, 2022
Timing Activity Resources
Day 1 Asnychronous introduction – Release welcome and overview video Email

Video (Youtube)
Create Hypothes.is reference 

Schedule
Reading/learning resource
Day 2 Asynchronious Social Annotation
Hypothes.is		 Hypothes.is
Groups or full class decision needed here
*dependent on resources
Day 3 Asynchronous Social Annotation
Hypothes.is
Day 4 Synchronous mid-week check-in – Live session


(see lesson plan below)



 Zoom link
Menitmeter
Day 5 Assessment – Team Reflection Blog Post *Wordpress discussion prompt(s)
Day 6 Asynchronous finale – Wrap up post or video reflecting back on the posts, activities, and providing links to ongoing resources. Video (Youtube), email, or post

 

Synchronous Session Plan 
Time Activities Supplies/Resources
10 minutes Icebreaker/Warm up *Jamboard animal as facilitator openness-centred or animal encounter icebreaker google image search
10 minutes Presentation Slide deck
5 minutes This or That or Wordcloud * Mentimeter
10 minutes Breakout Rooms *Good leading question(s) here around openness within the context of participants facilitation practice
10 minutes Groups Return & Report
10 minutes Housekeeping / Announcements and time for Q & A

* Represents a partial decision in process

Some notes about our technology choices:

We have chosen Zoom as it is easy to set up and navigate to accommodate small group discussions and breakout room activities. While we have reservations about how Zoom collects and stores data, the trade-off here is that it will allow for a smoother synchronous session because our team has ample experience using this technology.

For our asynchronous activity, we have chosen to use Hypothes.is, an open-source tool that allows students to co-annotate readings. According to Brown and Croft (2020), social annotation disrupts “traditional knowledge practices in higher education that are structured around hierarchy, one-way knowledge transfer, and historical definitions of what knowledge means” (p.2). We will likely host our course information on one of our MALAT WordPress blogs so that our facilitation week demonstrates openness in practice.

References:

BC Campus. (n.d.) What is open pedagogy?
https://open.bccampus.ca/what-is-open-education/what-is-open-pedagogy/

Brown, M. and Croft, B., 2020. Social Annotation and an Inclusive Praxis for Open Pedagogy in the College Classroom. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2020(1), p.8. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/jime.561