Start Date
24-10-2025 12:00 PM
End Date
24-10-2025 12:45 PM
Presentation Type
Presentation
Primary Theme
Pedagogy, Andragogy, and Designs
Secondary Theme
Scholarly Publications
Description
This presentation shares an action plan developed through the University of Minnesota’s Open Pedagogy Certificate program, showing how a traditional computer science course project can become a renewable, openly licensed assignment. In CS 331, Database System Design & Management, students design and implement relational databases, then publish their work - diagrams, schemas, SQL code, and walkthroughs - on GitHub for reuse and adaptation.
A faculty/librarian partnership introduces students to Open Educational Resources (OER), Creative Commons licensing, and accessibility practices, giving them agency in how their work is shared. This model empowers students as knowledge creators, advances equity, and offers practical strategies for librarians and faculty to transform “disposable” assignments into lasting, renewable contributions to STEM learning.
Recommended Citation
Chatterjee, Aneliia (Annie) and Eren, Canan, "From Disposable to Renewable: Open Pedagogy in STEM Education" (2025). Open Educational Resources Conference. 5.
https://digitalcommons.kean.edu/oer_conference/2025/23rd/5
From Disposable to Renewable: Open Pedagogy in STEM Education
This presentation shares an action plan developed through the University of Minnesota’s Open Pedagogy Certificate program, showing how a traditional computer science course project can become a renewable, openly licensed assignment. In CS 331, Database System Design & Management, students design and implement relational databases, then publish their work - diagrams, schemas, SQL code, and walkthroughs - on GitHub for reuse and adaptation.
A faculty/librarian partnership introduces students to Open Educational Resources (OER), Creative Commons licensing, and accessibility practices, giving them agency in how their work is shared. This model empowers students as knowledge creators, advances equity, and offers practical strategies for librarians and faculty to transform “disposable” assignments into lasting, renewable contributions to STEM learning.
Comments
This session connects to the conference track on cross-border partnerships and open pedagogy by showing how student-authored projects can circulate across cohorts and institutions through GitHub and OER repositories. It also supports the theme of empowering underrepresented voices by teaching students to make informed choices about authorship, privacy, and licensing, positioning them as contributors to a global commons. Attendees will leave with examples of assignment redesign, sample rubrics, and workflows that can be adapted across disciplines.