Education (EDU)

Approaches to Open Pedagogy: A Guide for Practitioners

Authors: David Tully; Carlos Goller; Katya Mueller; Erin McKenney; and Emma Giles

Year: last updated 2025

Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Description: Approaches to Open Pedagogy: A Guide for Practitioners highlights the experiences of NC State University faculty who have participated in the Libraries’ open education initiatives. Bringing together the voices of both faculty and librarians, the book offers practical insights, sample assignments, lessons learned, and reflections on adopting open practices in teaching. It serves as both a celebration of faculty innovation and a resource for anyone interested in integrating open pedagogy into their courses.

Formats: Pressbooks webbook

Creative Clinical Teaching in the Health Professions

Authors: Sherri Melrose, Caroline Park, and Beth Perry (Athabasca University) 

Year: 2021

Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Note: assigning sections is permitted, but adaptations are not allowed without permission)

Description: For healthcare professionals, clinical education is foundational to the learning process. However, balancing safe patient care with supportive learning opportunities for students can be challenging for instructors and the complex social context of clinical learning environments makes intentional teaching approaches essential. Clinical instructors require advanced teaching knowledge and skills as learners are often carrying out interventions on real people in unpredictable environments. Creative Clinical Teaching in the Health Professions is an indispensable guide for educators in the health professions. Interspersed with creative strategies and notes from the field by clinical teachers who offer practical suggestions, this volume equips healthcare educators with sound pedagogical theory. The authors focus on the importance of personal philosophies, resilience, and professional socialization while evaluating the current practices in clinical learning environments from technology to assessment and evaluation. This book provides instructors with the tools to influence both student success and the quality of care provided by future practitioners. (Description from AU Press)

Formats: Online (Manifold) and PDF

Reviews (Pressbooks version): Open Textbook Library – BCcampus – eCampusOntario Open Library

Crip Negativity

Author: J. Logan Smilges (University of British Columbia) 

Year: 2023

Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Note: assigning sections is permitted, but adaptations are not allowed without permission)

Description: Leveling a strong critique of the category of disability and liberal disability politics, Smilges asks and imagines what horizons might exist for the liberation of those oppressed by ableism—beyond access and inclusion. Inspired by models of negativity in queer studies, Black studies, and crip theory, Smilges proposes that bad crip feelings might help all of us to care gently for one another, even as we demand more from the world than we currently believe to be possible. 

Format: Online (Manifold)

Critical Race Theory in Education: Reader of Open Access Scholarship 

Edited by Oscar E. Patrón (Indiana University, Bloomington) 

Year: 2023

Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0

Description: This resource serves as a critical reader of open access (OA) scholarship on Critical Race Theory (CRT). Each of the authors selected a different article that in some capacity (e.g., guiding framework) involves CRT. Then, authors engaged in a review of the very same article. Each review includes a description of a) why the given article was chosen, b) the actual review, c) relevant questions for the audience to consider, and d) additional resources for those that want to learn more about the topic.

Formats: Pressbooks webbook and PDF

Includes: review, resources and relevant questions

Emphasizing a Student-Centered Process: Open Pedagogy Course Assessments Across Disciplines

Edited by Angela M. McGowan-Kirsch, PhD and Kelly Soczka Steidinger, M.A.

Year: 2025

Licence: CC BY 4.0

Description: Emphasizing a Student-Centered Process: Open Pedagogy Course Assessments Across Disciplines showcases how Open Educational Practices (OEP) empower students as active contributors to knowledge creation. Grounded in constructivist principles, this collection highlights student-centered assessments—from collaborative course design and renewable assignments to generative artificial intelligence—that foster critical thinking, active learning, and inclusivity. Through practical examples and reflective discussions, the book provides educators with actionable strategies to integrate open pedagogical practices across disciplines while addressing challenges such as institutional support, professional development, and resource accessibility.

Formats: Pressbooks webbooks, PDF download

Ethical Use of Technology in Digital Learning Environments: Graduate Student Perspectives

Edited by Barbara Brown, Verena Roberts, Michele Jacobsen, and Christie Hurrell (University of Calgary) 

Year: 2020

Licence: CC BY 4.0

Description: This book is the result of a co-design project in a class in the Masters of Education program at the University of Calgary. The course, and the resulting book, focus primarily on the safe and ethical use of technology in digital learning environments. The course was organized according to four topics based on Farrow’s (2016) Framework for the Ethics of Open Education.

Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, and MOBI

Reviews: Open Textbook Library

Foundations of Education and Instructional Assessment

Authors: Jennifer Kidd, Jamie Kaufman, Peter Baker, Patrick O’Shea, and Dwight Allen (Old Dominion University) 

Year: Last updated 2021

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0

Description: This book is the newest iteration of a project that began way back in the Fall of 2006. This book was written, read, and studied by Undergraduate college students enrolled in their first education course. We hope you enjoy the new content and the creative ways in which that content is presented.

Formats: Online and PDF

Literature Reviews for Education and Nursing Graduate Students

Authors: Linda Frederiksen and Sue F. Phelps (Washington State University Vancouver)

Year: 2017

Licence: CC BY 4.0

Description: This open textbook is designed for students in graduate-level nursing and education programs. From developing a research question to locating and evaluating sources to writing a sample literature review using appropriate publication guidelines, readers will be guided through the process.

Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, MOBI, and more

Reviews: Open Textbook Library – BCcampus

Open Pedagogy Approaches

Authors: Alexis Clifton and Kimberly Davies Hoffman

Edited by Alexis Clifton; Kimberly Davies Hoffman; Robert I. Berkman; Eileen Daly-Boas; Lev Earle; Joe Easterly; Moriana Garcia; Deborah F. Rossen-Knill; and Kristen Totleben

Licence: CC BY 4.0

Description: The term “open” has been heavily used in the past decade or more and can come with multiple interpretations: open access, open source, open textbook, open pedagogy … In general, “open” within these contexts implies unlimited, free, public access with the ability to manipulate and transform the educational content.Within the educational realm, we see even greater nuances of “open” in terms of how the access to and adapted creation work together. Our book aims to shed light on multiple definitions and how they are applied in a variety of learning experiences.Chapters provide case studies of library-teaching faculty collaborations that explore the intersecting roles and desired outcomes that each partner contributes toward student learning in an open environment.

Formats: Pressbooks webbook

Open Pedagogy Toolkit

Authors: Elaine Kaye; Nicole Wilson; Cheryl (Cuillier) Casey; Kathy Essmiller; Mandi Goodsett; Jeanne Hoover; Stacy Katz; Lily Todorinova; and Deidre Tyler

Edited by Elaine Kaye and Nicole Wilson

Year: 2024

Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Description: This open pedagogy resource is intended as a support for a broad audience that may include faculty in higher education, library faculty and staff, instructional designers, faculty developers, and anyone in education who is interested in contributing to the open movement. This toolkit was developed by a multi-institutional group, the Open Practices Collaborative. Our purpose was to focus on building relationships that support us as we create, share, and collaborate on various projects that support the open movement. While you can choose to read the toolkit chapters in sequential order, depending on your own goals, you can also jump around to the chapters that feel most relevant to you.

Formats: PDF, EPUB, Pressbooks webbook

Steps to Success: Crossing the Bridge Between Literacy Research and Practice

Edited by Kristen A. Munger (SUNY Oswego)

Year: 2016

Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Description: Steps to Success: Crossing the Bridge Between Literacy Research and Practice introduces instructional strategies linked to the most current research-supported practices in the field of literacy. The book includes chapters related to scientifically-based literacy research, early literacy development, literacy assessment, digital age influences on children’s literature, literacy development in underserved student groups, secondary literacy instructional strategies, literacy and modern language, and critical discourse analysis. Chapters are written by authors with expertise in both college teaching and the delivery of research-supported literacy practices in schools. The book features detailed explanations of a wide variety of literacy strategies that can be implemented by both beginning and expert practitioners. Readers will gain knowledge about topics frequently covered in college literacy courses, along with guided practice for applying this knowledge in their future or current classrooms. The book’s success-oriented framework helps guide educators toward improving their own practices and is designed to foster the literacy development of students of all ages.

Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, and PDF

Reviews: Open Textbook Library

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