Open Learning Designs and Participatory Pedagogies for Graduate Student Online Publishing

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Our open educational resource initiative amplifies co-design as a key element of open educational practice that supports graduate student learning in an online master’s program. We designed learning activities that helped students explore the ubiquitous influence and complexities of technology within a participatory pedagogical culture. Students investigated many ethical and technological issues that confront learning communities and developed, and published, chapters in a peer-reviewed open access textbook. Interview and survey data collected from students were analyzed, along with instructor reflections, course design, and learning artifacts. Our research provides useful themes and insights on the practices and impact of participatory pedagogical approaches to open and online learning designs for diverse graduate students’ co-design of open educational resources in higher education. Inviting graduate students into co-design relationships empowers and engages diverse learners as active agents in knowledge building, instead of reducing them to passive recipients of information.