As global social and environmental problems grow ever more intractable, we need transformative pedagogies that support our students to become critical, creative social agents capable of building a more sustainable and just world.
Open Pedagogy has the potential to shift our traditional modes of teaching and learning towards practices that nurture students to be creators of knowledge focused on the global good. These hopes could be realized if we are responsive to the dual upheavals caused by AI and the attacks on higher education. We can educate our STEM students to become scientists, and all of our students to become citizens, that are cognizant of an uncertain and challenging future, and work from non-traditional frameworks–those that resist competitive, hierarchical, exploitative models of science.
Key to achieving this vision is teaching undergraduates how to center Open Science as the default for how science is practiced by deeply integrating Open Pedagogical practices that support students to address inherent inequities, problems with data-sharing, and other barriers to the adoption of Open Science.
This event was organized by the BC Open Education Librarians, and sponsored by BCcampus, University Canada West, and Langara College. ASL translation was provided by Joy Emerson with the Island Deaf and Hard of Hearing Centre.