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The Open Pedagogy Cookbook
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: LibWizard
Relevance
Uniqueness
Implementation
Proposal instructions:
Please submit your proposals using the online form by May 2, 2025:
LibWizard . 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.