OpenLab at the Living Lab General Education Seminar

 

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The OpenLab grew up alongside the Living Lab General Education Seminar, and the success of both is thanks in part to a commitment to high-impact educational practices and open pedagogy.

The OpenLab team is collaborating today with the Living Lab General Education Seminar to get creative and think about ways of engaging students in the Intercultural Knowledge gen ed student learning outcome through open digital tools, using a game-based approach.

Interested in learning more? Check out our slides!

Open Digital Pedagogy at Play

The OpenLab team is facilitating a Play Session at this year’s THATCamp Digital Writing, so we would like to welcome colleagues from THATCamp Digital Writing 2014! If you’d like to follow along with the day’s activities, follow the #tcdw14 Twitter feed.

For the Open Digital Pedagogy at Play, we’d love for participants to share their products with the OpenLab community. Use  the format below to share your assignment ideas as comments to this post–or revise it to fit the needs of what you’ve made. We’re glad to have you join our efforts on the OpenLab!

Our three cards were

General Education Student Learning Outcome:

Open Pedagogy Technique:

Game:

Our group developed a/an [formal/informal/ group/ classroom] assignment that asks students to [what they’ll do] and then [what else they’ll do] and [finally what else they’ll do] using [specific tools, materials, skills] so they can learn [course goal] while also developing [specific and or general skills]

Thanks for playing with us!

Developing an Open Digital Pedagogy Assignment

Welcome, colleagues from Computers and Writing 2013! Use the format below to share your assignment ideas as comments to this post. We’re glad to have you join our efforts on the OpenLab.

Our three cards were

Open Pedagogy Technique:
General Education Student Learning Outcome:
Game:

Our group developed a/an [formal/informal/ group/ classroom] assignment that asks students to [what they’ll do] and then [what else they’ll do] and [finally what else they’ll do] using [specific tools, materials, skills] so they can learn [course goal] while also developing [specific and or general skills]