The Open Pedagogy Cookbook
Apologies for cross-posting. Please share widely!
Title: The Open Pedagogy Cookbook
Editor: Melissa Chim
Publisher: ACRL
Chapter Proposals due May 2, 2025
I’m excited to invite chapter proposals for The Open Pedagogy Cookbook, an edited volume to be published by ACRL! Please email me at mchim@excelsior.edu with any questions.
About the book:
Open pedagogy promotes students as active creators of information, rather than passive consumers of it. It relies on the use and creation of Open Educational Resources (OER). In place of “throw away” assignments, open pedagogy allows students to engage with meaningful and relevant assignments that will be preserved for future audiences. These assignments can elevate student participation and give students valuable skills to take with them to the workforce.
This edited volume contains lesson plans, resources, and inspiration from librarians who have successfully implemented open pedagogy at their institutions. Whether your campus is just beginning its open education journey or has multiple OER champions, this book is for you!
Call for Chapter Proposals:
Proposals are invited from librarians who champion open pedagogy at their institutions in various ways. Final chapters/recipes need to thoroughly describe a replicable lesson plan or activity and are typically between 1,000 and 2,500 words.
The book is tentatively organized in four parts, each dealing with a different aspect of open pedagogy: 1) Library instruction, 2) Technology, 3) Open Licensing, and 4) Resources & Sustainability. This section list is tentative so please do not feel limited in your creativity!
Part I Rolling up your sleeves: Library instruction
This section will focus on chapters that talk about using open pedagogy in library instruction. These can include one shot presentations, semester long library projects, and more!
Same topics can include:
Posting to Wikipedia
Social annotation assignments
Video series
Creating a glossary
Part II A lid for every pot: Technology
This section will focus on technology related to open pedagogy assignments. Chapters may focus on any technology used and its implications for open pedagogy as a whole.
Sample topics can include:
Using Pressbooks/LibreText/Manifold/other publishing platforms
Using Hypothesis
Using Padlet
Using Generative AI and LLMs(ex. ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, etc)
Accessibility
Part III Potluck: Open Licensing
This section invites chapters on any aspects of Open Licensing, including Creative Commons.
Sample topics can include:
Choosing a Creative Commons License
Rights Reversal
Other licensing options (such as in science publishing)
Part IV Taste testing: Sharing Resources and sustainability
This section will focus on sharing open pedagogy works and how to keep your initiatives sustainable.
Sample topics can include:
Partnering with your library publishing platform
Utilizing your Institutional Repository
Student privacy and open pedagogy
Making your assignments sustainable
Preserving your work (ex: migrating platforms, changing jobs, etc)
Evaluation criteria:
Chapter proposals will be evaluated based on the following criteria, as listed in the rubric here: https://excelsior.libwizard.com/f/rubric
Relevance
Uniqueness
Implementation
Proposal instructions:
Please submit your proposals using the online form by May 2, 2025: https://excelsior.libwizard.com/f/openpedagogy . The proposal should include all contributing authors, a contact email for the main author, a working title, what part you envision your chapter in, 3-5 keywords describing your proposed topic, and a summary of your lesson plan or learning activity.
Authors will be notified of acceptance by May 30th, 2025. Publication is anticipated in 2027. Please email Melissa Chim at mchim@excelsior.edu with any questions!
About the editor: Melissa Chim is the first Scholarly Communications Librarian at Excelsior University where she both created and manages the university’s scholarly publishing platform and institutional repository. She holds an MLIS from St. John’s University and an MA in History from Queen Mary, the University of London, and hold certificates in open education and Creative Commons licensing. She was a SPARC Open Education Leadership Fellow for their 2022-23 cohort, a Society for Scholarly Publishing Fellow for 2024, an Accelerating Science and Publishing in Biology (ASAPbio) Fellow for 2024, and a member of the Fulbright Specialist Roster from 2024-2027. She co-authored the OER textbook entitled Living Archives: A History of the Center for Christian Spirituality, and is currently co-authoring another textbook on information literacy to be published in 2025.