Open Fredonia is SUNY Fredonia’s home for open education, both as a digital platform and as a campus-wide initiative that supports transparency, access, and collaboration in teaching, learning, and scholarship.
Through Open Fredonia, students, faculty, and staff can:
- Create and share open or private projects, portfolios, and communities
- Build open course sites and open pedagogy projects
- Engage in a growing community committed to open, student-centered learning
A Platform and an Initiative
Open Fredonia is reimagining open education at SUNY Fredonia by supporting faculty, students, and staff in making learning more accessible, collaborative, and impactful. We provide:
- Incentives for faculty to adopt, adapt, and remix open educational resources (OER) and other no-cost course materials
- Support for open pedagogy projects where students create work for real-world, public audiences
- The tools to showcase the work of the Fredonia community beyond our campus
Why Open?
Open Education encompasses resources, tools, and practices that are free of legal, financial, and technical barriers and can be fully used, shared, and adapted in the digital environment (SPARC). Open Education maximizes the power of the internet to make education more affordable, accessible, and effective.
Fredonia faculty have already redesigned numerous courses using OER, improving access to high-quality resources while saving students money. Open Fredonia builds on this momentum to expand opportunities for our community to collaborate, share, and create work that benefits both local and global audiences.
Teaching “openly” means making some or all aspects of your learning environment available and accessible beyond the classroom. This can include adopting or creating open educational resources (OER), engaging students in open pedagogy projects where they co-create knowledge for public audiences, or sharing course materials openly for others to reuse and adapt.
Open pedagogy empowers students as active contributors, amplify their voices beyond the classroom, and deepen learning by connecting it to real-world audiences. They also remove barriers to participation by reducing costs and expanding access to knowledge for everyone.
While Open Fredonia encourages openness, users can choose privacy settings that fit their needs, whether working publicly or within a closed group.
Built with Open Tools
Open Fredonia is powered by Commons In A Box OpenLab, free and open-source software built for teaching, learning, and collaboration. Built on WordPress and BuddyPress, it provides a flexible network of sites for our community.
Open Fredonia is hosted by ReClaim Hosting through SUNYCreate and sponsored by the Daniel A. Reed Library.
