About the Playbook

The Foundations of Open Culture playbook is a primer designed to support HBCU educators, instructional designers, and academic leaders to integrate open education principles into their teaching and curriculum development. By embracing open culture, educators can create learning environments that are more inclusive, learner-centered, and adaptable, ensuring that course materials reflect diverse perspectives and position students as co-creators of knowledge.

This playbook provides practical strategies and frameworks for embedding open culture into teaching and learning. It explores key areas such as pedagogical approaches, curriculum development, instructional design strategies, technology integration, and assessment models aimed at making education more collaborative and accessible. Further, it addresses aligning to institutional goals to support scaling open education initiatives and aligning them with HBCU values and priorities.