This is, fundamentally, about the dream of a public learning commons, where learners are empowered to shape the world as they encounter it.

Knowledge consumption and knowledge creation are not separate but parallel processes, as knowledge is co-constructed, contextualized, cumulative, iterative, and recursive.

So one key component of Open Pedagogy might be that it sees access, broadly writ, as fundamental to learning and to teaching, and agency as an important way of broadening that access.

one of the central gifts that it brings to faculty is that of agency

Open Pedagogy and Social Justice