Deirdre Maultsaid argues that "Open Pedagogy is inclusive for all, especially marginalized and underrepresented students." I would have thought that this was generally understood, though I suppose it's something that bears repeating. "We must listen to the experiences of marginalized students," writes Maultsaid. "These students are often the most isolated, degraded and bullied. They can be physically and emotionally excluded from the full postsecondary experience." I agree, but would add that there are many ways to be marginalized beyond race, ability and gender. As a result, I think that open pedagogy doesn't mean specific technologies, but rather, as Maultsaid says, "one significant intent of Open Pedagogy is to encourage student agency. We can celebrate students as contributors to evolving repositories of OER and to evolving public knowledge."
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