Robin’s current research and advocacy work focus on Open Education, and how universities can innovate in order to bring down costs for students, increase interdisciplinary collaboration, and refocus the academic world on strengthening the public good. She is a professor at Plymouth State University, part of the University System of New Hampshire, and the director of the Interdisciplinary Studies program, a program where students customize their own majors in a high-technology ecosystem designed around increasing student access and agency in education.
Topic: The Responsibility of Open
When: March 6, 2018, 3:00 PM CDT (check your local time)
Relevant work
- Overview of Robin’s current thinking about how open and public higher ed should work together: https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/views/2017/11/01/oer-catalyst-national-conversation-about-public-higher-education
- Blog post about the program she directs and how it’s organized around open principles: http://robinderosa.net/uncategorized/open-pedagogy-at-the-program-level-the-plymouthids-case-study/
- Her chapter with Rajiv Jhangiani introducing “open pedagogy” in a guide for making open textbooks with students: https://press.rebus.community/makingopentextbookswithstudents/chapter/open-pedagogy/
- Guest blog post about her journey to open pedagogy via an OER project: http://umwdtlt.com/open-textbook-pedagogy-practice/
