Innovating Instruction with Open Digital Pedagogy Projects

Open pedagogical projects have the benefits of reducing redundancy in instruction and empowering users to acquire increased skills in areas relevant to their needs. Join this showcase of two such projects developed at the UTSC Library by the Digital Scholarship Unit. The first, LEARN, is an enriched bibliography of open OERs made accessible via modern search and indexing capabilities, with actual OERs being stored outside of the tool in centralized locations by format. It responds to barriers for keeping OERs current and encourages participation by empowering content creators to retain physical ownership of the files that comprise the OER, with workflows leading to greater engagement from content authors and increased available open content for instructors and learners. FIND hosts a dataset emerging from the Digital Scholarship Knowledge Base project at the UTSC Library in response to the difficulty of sharing and updating information about digital tools and resources commonly used in Digital Scholarship. This site is an experiment in crowdsourcing and data sharing that aims to be useful and accessible to broad audiences who want to explore methodologies and tools in digital scholarship. In addition to tool demonstration, participants will gain an understanding of best practices needed to create such collections.