ABSTRACT

Critical digital pedagogy has grown from these foundations: context, dialogue, and critical evaluation. Student agency, at the heart of critical pedagogy, finds a modern advocate in open education—but that advocacy does not happen automatically. The question of how the ideals of critical pedagogy interact with the primary themes and investments of the open education movement as it exists in 2017 is a complex one Open Educational Resources, are part of a commitment to building a system in which the public pays itself for what it needs: the public funding of systems and structures that help students make it to and through college. Content is a closed circuit, a mechanism. Learning is an open circuit, a field. The open education community has only begun to grapple with what it would truly mean to displace content from its place at the centre of education.