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Instructional framework demonstrates assignment redesign in an online graduate course, highlighting actionable steps to adopt open pedagogy without requiring an all-or-nothing public approach.
Open pedagogy invites students to create work that can be useful beyond a single graded submission. In any course format, however, openness requires careful attention to audience, privacy, collaboration, attribution, reuse, and assessment. This Quick Fix presents four design decisions for open pedagogy assignments: purpose and audience, participation and choice, attribution and reuse, and scaffolding and assessment. Grounded in an example from an online graduate course, it shows how these decisions can guide the redesign of one existing assignment rather than treating open pedagogy as an all-or-nothing commitment to public work.
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