About Open Metacognition

Our goals

From the beginning, this was concieved as an ongoing project. This website will be used in our courses and will continue to be developed by students. The goal is for people to learn about metacognition and its role in learning. We believe that learning can happen the most effectively when learners engage with open educational resources not just as passive consumers of information, but as active participants in meaningful knowledge creation.

Why metacognition?

Developing metacognitive awareness is shown to contribute to learning transfer, helping learners to use their knowledge and apply what they've learned in new contexts. As English teachers, we know that metacognitive awareness and the open discussion of metacognitive processes helps learners to develop and refine skills in reading, writing, and researching. Metacognition is something we all do in countless contexts, so it's something that anyone can meaningfully engage in discussing and learning. (Click here for additional info on metacognition and learning)

Please join us!

We hope that other instructors will encourage their students to engage with these OER in the spirit of open pedagogy. We selected metacognition as a topic from the perspective of English teachers, knowing its integral role in working with language. We believe that metacognitive awareness is crucial to any type of learning. In particular, learners focused on study skills and college success benefit greatly from metacognitive awareness. Learners of psychology and education would also have much to gain from engaging with this topic.

If you're an instructor who would like to use this site in your courses, please email us at george.zamzow@pcc.edu

Acknowledgements and Thanks

Almost all of this content was compiled, revised, and/or created by students. We are grateful for their hard work, knowledge, creativity, and intelligence, and pleased that their work will benefit future learners.

Facilitating this student work would not have been possible without support from Open Oregon.

Amy Hofer (Open Oregon Statewide Coordinator) is a true leader in promting OER, highly knowledgable, and a pleasure to work with. So many students and instructors have benefitted from her energy, advocacy, and expertise.

Many other people--too many to thank here--support Open Oregon, contributing to improved instruction, cost savings for students, and social justice in education.

Jen Klaudinyi (OER Specialist, PCC) provided indispensable advice and assistance from the very beginning of this project. She delivered instruction and advice to student creators that directly contributed to the quality of the work seen here. We are so grateful to have her as our resident expert and wonderful colleague.