Keynote address at the Teaching Preconference of the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology

1. University Teaching Fellow & Psychology Instructor, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Senior Open Education Advocacy & Research Fellow, BCcampus
Rajiv Jhangiani, Ph.D.
@thatpsychprof
Serving SOCIAL JUSTICE &
PEDAGOGICAL INNOVATION by
GIVING PSYCHOLOGY AWAY

3. “higher
education shall
be equally
accessible to
all”

4. The cost barrier kept
2.4 million
low and moderate-income college-qualified
high school graduates from completing college
in the previous decade
The Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED529499.pdf

5. $2,000
$3,000
$4,000
$5,000
$6,000
$7,000
$8,000
$9,000
1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013
US Higher Education Funding - $/FTE
State Funding Tuition Revenue
http://www.sheeo.org

6. 0
200
400
600
800
1,000
1,200
1,400
1,600
1,800
1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010
Hours@MinimumWage
Hours of Work Required to Afford Tuition
(University of Minnesota)

14. 66.5% Not purchase the required textbook
47.6% Take fewer courses
45.5% Not register for a specific course
37.6% Earn a poor grade
26.1% Drop a course
19.8% Fail a course
2016 Florida Student Textbook Survey
14

15. Revise Remix
Retain Redistribute
Reuse
Source: David Wiley, http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/3221
March 5, 2014, CC-BY
open = free + permissions

21. open.umn.edu

22. relevant to human welfare and nothing
that could pose a greater challenge to
the next generation of psychologists
than to discover how best to give
psychology away”

23. – G. A. Miller
George A. Miller (1920-2012)

28. ~1.6 million take Introductory Psychology
>90,000 Bachelor’s degrees in Psychology
~25% pursue graduate work
~5% enroll in a doctoral program
Gurung et al. (2016); Halonen (2011)

29. "France in 2000 year (XXI century). Future school." by Jean Marc Cote is in the Public Domain

31. John W. Gardner (1912-2002)
“All too often we are giving young people
cut flowers when we should be teaching
them to grow their own plants”

32. "Recycling Water Bottles" by Mr.TinDC is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0

35. Examples

36. Open Pedagogy:
HOW
Deeper learning (Farzan & Kraut, 2013)
Evaluate and defend credibility of
sources (Marentette, 2014)
Write more concisely and think
more critically (Farzan & Kraut, 2013)
Collaborate with students from
around the world (Karney, 2012)
Provide and receive constructive
feedback (Ibrahim, 2012)
Enhance digital literacy (Silton, 2012)
Communicate ideas to a general
audience (APS, 2013)

39. 22,000
37,000+
97%
Students who have taken on
Wikipedia assignments since 2010
New articles that students have
created
Instructors who say they will, or
plan to, teach with Wikipedia again

40. “The students also realized they were a valuable
asset to Wikipedia. Their thinking and writing
skills as well as their access to an extensive
academic library were not broadly shared.
As knowledge translators, they could also
provide a service to the general public by
clearly communicating basic concepts about
language acquisition. They wondered who their
readers might be: parents? teachers? students in
developing countries?
One thing that the students uniformly loved
about this project was the possibility of other

41. “They felt their work was meaningful because
their contributions are shared with the entire
world, rather than just their instructor. They liked
that their contributions will not end up in a drawer
after the semester ends, but will continue to be
available to many people as a useful resource.
Some students even noted with pride that their
contributions might have wider use than some
articles published in academic journals.”
(Ibrahim, 2012, p. 29)

44. PM4ID

45. Why have students just
answer questions when
they can write them?

46. Students
Topics
Questions
35
10
1400

49. "GB Airways A320" by Tony Evans is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0

50. "IMG_1007" by Erica is licensed under CC BY 2.0

53. Researchers in
developing countries
can see your work
More exposure for
your work
Practitioners can
apply your findings
Higher citation rates
Your research can
Influence policy
The public can access
your findings
Compliant with grant
rules
Taxpayers get value
for money
CC-BY Danny Kingsley & Sarah Brown

57. @thatpsychprof
Rajiv@kpu.ca
slideshare.net/thatpsychprofWWW