Sarah Slade

Here’s the question:

How could I address open pedagogy and/or critical digital pedagogy in my own practice, and what might this achieve?

I think I’ve just answered this. Open pedagogy and CDP are produced by formal education practitioners and specifically address that context. Workplace learning cannot take on a political aspect in the way Stommel et al mean. Other aspects, such as communication and collaboration, take time to implement, something most workplace learners don’t have and would probably not fit the workplace culture. Collaboration or learner-centred learning in this form may work for apprentice or intern training, but not necessarily for mainstream professional training.

What I’m trying to say is that this approach requires time to build a relationship with learners and between learners; time is something of a luxury with workplace training. If we’re lucky, we’ll get to spend a couple of days with learners, but no more. We’re there to fulfil a specific need and to improve productivity, so while CDP is an interesting approach, I’m not sure how we can implement it in my practice.