OKP Learning Experience Rubric 1.1

As a part of the work I’ve been doing around opening knowledge practices generally, I’ve been thinking about how one might design open learning experiences that support multiple meanings of “open”: not just using open educational resources (OER), not just enabling open educational pedagogies (OEP), and not just offering wide access (like MOOCs), but all those meanings of open and more. To continue what is a long-standing conversation across the open community, I’ve tried to distill characteristics and levels of open into a rubric that one might use as a guide to designing and/or evaluating open learning experiences.

I know I haven’t managed to capture everything that might be considered in open learning experiences, so I hope we can together revise/extend this starting place to make it even richer. Please comment and contribute! Highlight any text on this page to add Hypothesis annotations, add comments or webmentions below, and/or contact me. I’ll be including all those who contribute in the acknowledgements (unless they prefer to remain unacknowledged).

You can explore public Hypothesis annotations people have made on this document by opening the Hypothesis sidebar at the upper right. You can also explore public annotations on any other document that are tagged with both “OKP” (for Open Knowledge Practices) and “LER” (for Learning Experience Rubric) using Jon Udell’s “facet” utility that enables sophisticated searches of annotations and replies. For example, when I’m reading other resources in the bibliography below and make annotations that I think relate to this rubric, I’m tagging those annotations with both “OKP” and “LER”.

Once the rubric starts to mature, I’d love to consider another step: a collection of learning experiences matched to the rubric. Ideally, we’d just connect to already existing collections of learning experience designs.

Scroll down to see the collaborative bibliography of works related to this topic I’ve started. It’s very sparsely populated so far, but I welcome additional contributions. Let me know if there’s a resource I should add or I’ll gladly add you to the collaborative group I started in Zotero.

The Rubric

This rubric is designed to evaluate open educational learning experiences (eg, assignments, modules, courses, etc). The components of the rubric may seem vague and/or overly general as I have been attempting to make something that can be used in different situations. I’d love to hold up more specific open characteristics, materials, activities, etc to see if the rubric can include them.

The columns are additive: For a learning experience to be Developing, it should also include Emerging characteristics. Transforming experiences should also include Developing and Emerging characteristics.

Please comment and contribute! Highlight text to add Hypothesis annotations, add comments or webmentions below, and/or contact me. I’ll be including all those who contribute in the acknowledgements (unless they prefer to remain unacknowledged).

You can also access a Google Slides version of the rubric that can be downloaded in various other formats, including a PDF suitable for printing.

Rubric Contributors

• Angela Gunder
• Heather Angell
• Nate Angell
• Twyla Angell

Bibliography: Open Learning Experience Design

Resources listed below are items in the larger, public Open Knowledge Practices Zotero group bibliography that appear in the subcollection, Learning Experience Bingo.

Let me know if you have a resource to add to this bibliography or send me your email address if you would like to join the collaborative Zotero group to add and tag resources yourself.

Bibliography Contributors

• David Wiley
• Maha Bali
• Nate Angell