Open educational practice provides a pedagogical framework through which to consider expanding from formal to informal nodes of learning. Cronin (2017) defines open educational practices (OEP) as collaborative practices that include the creation, use, and reuse of OER as well as pedagogical practices employing participatory technologies and social networks for use by learners. Building on Cronin’s (2017) definition, the OEP in K–12 Contexts pedagogical model (Roberts, Blomgren, Ishmael, & Graham, 2018) describes a design that expands learning opportunities for all learners beyond classroom walls and across cultures. In this presentation, I will engage the audience in considering how to design for online learning environments to best support the scaffolding and modeling of generated OER for students. I will propose a pragmatic technological model to expand participatory learning environments through the use of open tools. This model, theoretically based on multiple integrated theories, represents a pragmatic approach to the creation, organization and assessment of academic interaction intended to enhance professional presence and manage information abundance in networked learning environments. This model promotes designing for learning through an open blog in order to model open educational practices (OEP) and support teacher integration of OEP in their own learning contexts. Detailed descriptions from pedagogical and theoretical perspectives will be integrated throughout the presentation. The writer will describe personal experiences in open blog course design which have been used for online course learning design for undergraduate and graduate Education students.

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