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"What do you want your students to remember in ten years?" Alyson Indrunas asked that question once, and she made the point that students rarely remember what they read in textbooks, but they often remember activities in which they participated. Indrunas' point was that instructors should separate what they want students to remember in the long term, and focus really great assignments on that concept. From there, she defines five steps to curating open courses. I like to adopt her ideas around course creation for defining open pedagogy assignments. Here are five steps to writing an OP assignment.

Define concepts students will need to remember in five years.
Sketch a meaningful assignment around those concepts.
Decide what skills the students will need to complete the assignment.
Find 5R content to support those skills.
Tweak the assignment so that student work can further your ability to teach this concept later.

Samples of open pedagogy assignments, and tools for teaching attributions and open licensing can be found in this Google Folder. Please don't forget to make your own copies of these materials.

Attributions and References

Indrunas, A. (2016). Course curation in five steps. Spoke & Hub. Retrieved from https://spokeandhub.wordpress.com/2017/01/09/course-curation-in-5-steps/.

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