Open Co-Curricular Practices/Introduction to Open Co-Curricular Practices

Origin of OCP Gaps in OEP Research and Practice The origin of OCP comes from research that was conducted on open educational practices (OEP). A relatively common theme across published research on OEP was that there were numerous barriers, including but not limited to students lacking the digital literacy skills and intellectual property awareness that is important competences for students to have in successful OEP activities. For instance, if an instructor wanted to implement a Wikipedia-editing OEP activity, but students were not familiar with how to engage in Wikipedia editing, then either: (a) the instructor's time and energy would be spent on teaching Wikipedia skills instead of content learning; or, (b) students would not receive the adequate mentorship which would result in student frustration and/or hindrance of the quality of the Wikipedia contributions. There are numerous values from OEP that align with co-curricular activities. For instance, OEP can promote inclusion by allowing content to be revised by which students from marginalized backgrounds can enhance their representation of content. Expanding Open Movement While OCP came from OEP, there is a broader open movement of which it is part. These include: open research/science, open government, open source code, open content, and more. How OCP Are Created As discussed in the subsequent chapter, OCP can take many forms that correspond to the different types of co-curriculars. For example, some OCP are student-led and are for the purpose of fostering a sense of belonging (e.g., interest clubs such as Anime club). While OCP range in the extent to which formal standards or outcomes. There are many informal components of co-curriculars. Informal components are less relevant to OCP because, for example, open licensing generally is used for formal content. For co-curricular content to become open, the below process is followed: Content is explicitly designated with an open license (e.g., CC BY 4.0). For more on open licensing, see David Wiley's 5 Rs Text/document/file of content is made accessible (e.g., screen reader compatible) Content is labelled as OCP