Open Pedagogy is also sometimes called OER-Enabled Pedagogy. While the latter term is a bit of a mouthful, it's more accurate and descriptive of the practice. It refers to practices with OER that involve students as knowledge creators, which is enabled by the open license of OER materials.
Open:
in this instance, refers to open educational resources (OER) – defined by UNESCO as “any type of educational materials that are in the public domain or introduced with an open license.”
Pedagogy:
the practice and method of teaching; how we teach, rather than what we teach
“To summarize, we might think about Open Pedagogy as an access-oriented commitment to learner-driven education and as a process of designing architectures and using tools for learning that enable students to become creators not passive consumers of content in order to shape the public knowledge commons of which they are a part.”
-Rajiv Jhangiani and Robin DeRosa
What defines Open Pedagogy is best made clear through examples. Students at SUNY Plattsburgh worked on an exemplary Open Pedagogy project based on posters, pamphlets, and other primary source texts and images related to campus visits by iconic Black visitors.
The project is called And Still We Rise: Celebrating the (Re) Discovery of Plattsburgh’s Iconic Black Visitors
Tour the website and the entry on Kwame Ture (formerly known as Stokely Carmichael). What do you notice?
Why does using OER as a pedagogical practice lead “students to become content creators, not passive consumers of content”?
Because of what OER allows you to do pedagogically. For this reason, OER-Enabled Pedagogy may be a more accurate, if wordier, term.
OER, materials with open licenses, allow students to retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute content. For example, students can create a literature anthology using excerpts from OER, and write their own introductions to the pieces.