With open pedagogy, it is important to recognize that open pedagogy has common investments with many other historical and contemporary schools of pedagogy. Connected learning and critical digital pedagogy, for example, both overlap with open pedagogy. We can see the relationship between family income and college attendance in today’s society, as according to the data in the text 54% of BC college students cannot afford textbooks. They are not lazy but cannot afford it. Through Open Educational Resources (OERs), OERs are publicly licensed educational materials, often with Creative Commons licenses. This saves students the cost of books. One of the main things about open education is that it is publicly accessible. This ensures that college is affordable and equally accessible to all college students; knowledge should not be reserved for the elite. While open education has many advantages, open education is not a panacea for the current challenging higher education crisis.
Digital redlining is usually found in some community colleges. This directly limits the future of students because of the scarcity of digital resources and the low class of students and teachers. This is very unequal for these students, who may not be able to complete a topic if they want to look it up but are filtered out by the Internet for various reasons. Digital redlining is the result of a policy that regulates and tracks student participation in information technology. Not only does it control access and filtering of information, but it also collects and retains student data and passes it on to third parties. Digital redlining is an act of discrimination because it emphasizes specific groups and reinforces boundaries of race, class, and ethnicity. Every student should be equal in learning, and students have a legitimate legal right to gather information on topics of interest to them. Digital redlining is preventing them from accessing information and controlling their learning.
| Mays, E. (Ed.). (2017). A guide to making open textbooks with students. Rebus Community.
Gilliard, C., & Culik, H. (2016, May 24). Digital Redlining, Access, and Privacy. Common Sense Education. |
leihan
Hi, Minrui
I agree with your idea very much. The high cost of studying brings a lot of financial pressure. As an international student, I need to pay higher tuition fees. I agree to pay for knowledge, but to me it is unreasonable for high textbooks or some websites to charge high prices for knowledge. Students should be more respected, and every student should not be discriminated against! Students should have more freedom to consult the knowledge they need at will. I believe that with the popularization of open education, this problem will be improved!
The best
Lei.
Mengqi Zhang
I agree with you. It is very unreasonable to set different access rights according to the identity and status of students. Isn’t the point of education to enable students to acquire unlimited knowledge to the greatest extent? I believe that with the continuous progress and improvement of open teaching, students can truly receive a fair education.
yilinwang
Hi Minrui,
I am totally agree with this statement: knowledge should not be left to the elite. Knowledge should be shared, and we have basically achieved this purpose through OER, but what we still need is to allow our readers to edit and change, so that we can constantly update the content according to the current situation, and always keep the resources up-to-date. This is the OER that has not yet been realized, and it is also the direction that needs to be worked on in the next step.
hbramxj
Hi Minrui,
I agree with what you said about digital redlining is an act of discrimination. In my perspective, the reason we pursue further education is not only to expand our view of the world but also to have the ability to embrace things. Therefore, a teacher should have the qualities of objectivity, fairness, and equality in order to be a teacher that students respect.
Julie