We're going to take a slight detour away from open at this point to talk about a concept that is key to designing good open pedagogy activities. Constructive alignment is at the foundation of effective assessment practices.

Ideally, any assessments that students complete will measure whether they have appropriately learned what they need to meet the learning outcomes of a course or unit of study. The assessments need to be in alignment with the learning outcomes for this to work.

An open pedagogy activity may provide the benefits mentioned on the previous page, but if it doesn't measure the learning outcomes, it won't help you to know whether students have met those outcomes.

Watch the following brief video explaining the concept of constructive alignment. When you create your own open pedagogy activities, you'll want to remember this and apply it in the design of you assignment.