Below are a few examples of how students are working with their professor to design the course curriculum.

DS106 Assignment Bank – http://assignments.ds106.us/about/

This site contains assignments for and created by participants in the most kick butt online open course anywhere, ds106, Digital Storytelling (more…). As of May 7, 2018 this collection includes 1138 ds106 assignments and 14329 examples created from them.

Dr. Rajiv Jhangiani’s Social Psychology Class – https://thatpsychprof.com/why-have-students-answer-questions-when-they-can-write-them/

I wouldn’t consider this a polished question bank ready for use by other instructors, I still consider this assignment to have been a success because the questions steadily improved over the semester (the experience of serving as peer reviewers was especially useful to the students when constructing their own questions). The students were also buoyed and motivated by my practice of including a few of their best questions on each of the three course exams.

Dr. Robin DeRosa’s blog post: http://robinderosa.net/higher-ed/extreme-makeover-pedagogy-edition

What should we learn in the course? I presented the latest version of learning outcomes that I had collected from the leadership of our campus-wide FYS program, and brought them to the table. We talked about them, and whether or not we should use them all. Students wanted to use most of them, though we tweaked a few words here and there. Then I asked students to contribute their own learning outcomes, on the basic principle that learning outcomes for the course should not be cemented without participation from the learners. After making some brainstormed lists together, students blogged a bit about what kinds of outcomes were important to them. They ranged from highly skills-oriented, like this one from Jordyn Hanos, to those that leaned more toward connection and engagement, like this one from Skyla Dore.

We put all the outcomes we came up with into a GoogleDoc and students tweaked and revised and ultimately voted on them. I opened the online syllabus live at the front of the class when we finished and we updated the learning outcomes based on what they had created and chosen to upvote. …

Some of these I love. Some of them I would probably never have included myself. There are others I would have liked to have seen in here, but my suggestions were outvoted….

We set about designing assignments to correspond to learning outcomes. … We built all of this week by week, with a syllabus that started almost completely blank and got filled in as we went along.

 

Open Pedagogy Notebook – http://openpedagogy.org

A community space to share assignments, approaches, syllabi, and other examples of open practices.