CONFERENCE: Open Education 2020
The Open Education Conference is an annual convening for sharing and learning about open educational resources, open pedagogy, and open education initiatives. This dynamic gathering celebrates the core values of open education that strive to realize education ecosystems that are accessible, affordable, equitable and inclusive to everyone, regardless of their background. Building on a seventeen-year history, the conference is in the process of redesigning itself through a community-driven planning process, guided by a Steering Committee and organizing partnership. Join the conversation! #OpenEd20 was held virtually November 9-13, 2020.
OAH members Johanna Amos, Alena Buis, Elizabeth Cavaliere, Jen Kennedy, Sarah Smith, and Devon Smither hosted a session titled: Reimagining how we teach visual and material cultures.
This collaborative workshop, with over 130 attendees, explores how we might adapt our pedagogical practices to best represent a field in flux, one that is no longer bound by a single historical narrative or set of objects? What approaches or tools might we develop or adopt to make our increasingly dynamic field accessible to the increasingly diverse students in our classrooms? How can open access, online resources, and new technologies, which have dramatically transformed the way both text and object are encountered, shape course content and delivery, while providing dynamic, tangible, and sustainable outcomes for students? Participants will consider the challenges in teaching visual and material culture both within the discipline of art history and beyond as a way to order and reimagine, reinvigorate, reinvent, and reshape the teaching of the discipline for our times.
Learning Outcomes:
At the end of this session, participants will be able to: identify the challenges in teaching visual and material cultures in the 21st century; make connections between the challenges and pedagogical tools (resources, programs, apps) currently available;
and, envision ethical and sustainable open educational practices in their own teaching and curriculum.
Watch the session here!
