Roberts, Verena

In Episode 7, Nicole meets with Verena and Nicole to review and reflect upon what she has learned, the questions she was able to answer and new questions that emerged in terms of the future of open learning.

In Episode 6, Nicole meets with Barb Brown (her former instructor and now colleague) to discuss the implications of open educational practices across graduate programs for the students, other instructors and the university. In this episode, Nicole gets a peek into how co-design and open education came together in the design of the EdTech Ethics course. Dr. Brown walks us through how the course came to be and provides insight into her journey into open education.

In Episode 5, Nicole meets with fellow graduate peer Joel Templeton to discuss the impact and influence of open educational practices in personal learning contexts.

In Episode 4, Nicole meets with Alan Levine to discuss the implications of how and why sharing is needed and the successes and failures of sharing your ideas and yourself in open learning contexts. The ‘King of Sharing’ helps Nicole understand that there are different levels of participating in open that can be accessed depending on your context. They take a look at individuals like Francois the blogger without a blog and different ways one might contribute to the open movement.

In Episode 3, Nicole meets with Catherine Cronin to consider questions of access, equity and inclusion in open learning contexts. Dr. Cronin is a leader in the world of open education and has honed in on equity and social justice issues within the opensphere. In this episode Nicole addresses some of her accessibility and equity concerns about participating in open and developing open educational resources.

In Episode 2, Nicole meets with guest Helen DeWaard to focus on the importance of digital literacies, fluencies, skills and competencies needed for open learning contexts. They also discuss the impact digital literacies may have on students’ participation in open education.

In Episode 1, Nicole meets with Heather (a former peer in her graduate course) and Verena Roberts (her former instructor in a graduate course) to learn how to make a podcast by discussing their introductions to open pedagogy, how the fellowship came about, what the podcast series will examine and questions that consider the influence of open educational practices on students – what are student perceptions and experiences of learning through an open educational practice design? In this episode, Dr. Roberts, Heather, and Nicole take a look at how this podcast came about and tell you a bit about how we ended up connected through open education.

The Into the Open Podcasts Series provided insight into how students perceive open pedagogy in terms of impact on their personal learning contexts.