Research Guides Open Educational Resources Oer Textbook Equity

Resources for locating Open Educational Resources for Educators and Librarians Open Educational Resources (OER) go beyond saving students money. They afford an opportunity to provide culturally relevant and responsible classroom materials in which all students see themselves reflected. Traditional textbooks, learning objects, and literature are often presented from a single dominant viewpoint, and packaged for mass production across a wide range of educational markets. OER allows for inclusion of previously excluded voices, and students can be actively engaged in the learning process.

Utilizing student voices, experiences, and viewpoints through the use of open pedagogy leads to a more engaging learning environment. Beginning small with a few assignments, readings, or lessons can be a great way to get started. The Library is happy to help! - ATD: Teaching and Learning with Open Educational Resources (OER) This link opens in a new windowTeaching and Learning with Open Educational Resources is the first report of its kind to look extensively at how instructors are using OER to advance equity in the classroom.

Making Ripples: A Guidebook to Challenge Status Quo in OER Creation This link opens in a new windowMaking Ripples: A Guidebook to Challenge Status Quo in OER Creation is a short resource designed to expand your understanding of inequities in the educational systems through breaking down the work into smaller pieces with opportunities for you to reflect, identify strategies for action, and locate resources and community members to connect with.

The purpose of this guide is to explore strategies for you as OER creators to incorporate equitable practices into your workflows. - Open at the Margins This link opens in a new windowThis book represents a starting point towards curating and centering marginal voices and non-dominant epistemic stances in open education. It includes the work of 43 diverse authors whose perspectives challenge the dominant hegemony.

Improving Representation and Diversity in OER Materials This link opens in a new windowPractical tips and guidelines for building representative voices into OER and learning materials. - Equity Through OER Rubric This link opens in a new windowThe Equity Through OER Rubric includes three broad organizational categories, each with several dimensions, and each of which is essential to build and sustain capacity. The categories represent not only areas of focus and engagement, but also stakeholder communities that sometimes intersect in terms of practice and responsibility: Students, Practitioners, and Leadership/Administrators.

Within these categories, rubric users are asked to engage and evaluate themselves along a set of key dimensions. - Online Equity Rubric This link opens in a new windowThe Peralta Equity Rubric is a research-based course (re)design evaluation instrument to help teachers make online course experiences more equitable for all students.

The rubric’s criteria include: addressing students’ access to technology and different types of support (both academic and non-academic); increasing the visibility of the instructor’s commitment to inclusion; addressing common forms of bias (e.g., implicit bias, image and representation bias, interaction bias); helping students make connections (e.g., between course topics and their lives; with the other students); and following universal design for learning principles.

Equity and Open Education Faculty Cohort This link opens in a new windowThis training approaches curriculum design using open resources and practices, universal design and an equity lens to improve course materials. - Achieving the Dream Teaching and Learning with Open Educational Resources This link opens in a new windowWhile a growing body of literature documents the benefits of converting courses to use OER, there is little research available that examines what teaching practice looks like in the OER classroom and how it affects students.

Teaching and Learning with OER addresses the urgent need to better understand how the use of OER can support educational equity, particularly in educational settings that serve historically marginalized student populations.

The report identifies five dimensions of open education and culturally responsive teaching: Study agency and ownership, or the extent to which the course and positions students as leaders of their learning Inclusive content, or how the instructor brings in diverse perspectives and tailors the content to students’ backgrounds Collaborative knowledge generation, or how students apply/develop new theories or contribute to “renewable” or generative assignments.

Critical consciousness, or how the instructor provides students with real-world assignments, decolonizes the curriculum, and addresses power imbalances Classroom culture, or how the instructor cultivates strong relationships and an inclusive environment - The Impact of Open Educational Resources on Various Student Success Metrics This link opens in a new windowThis article reports the results of a large-scale study (21,822 students) regarding the impact of course-level faculty adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER). Results indicate that OER adoption does much more than simply save students money and address student debt concerns.

OER improve end-of-course grades and decrease DFW (D, F, and Withdrawal letter grades) rates for all students. They also improve course grades at greater rates and decrease DFW rates at greater rates for Pell recipient students, part-time students, and populations historically underserved by higher education. OER address affordability, completion, attainment gap concerns, and learning. These findings contribute to a broadening perception of the value of OERs and their relevance to the great challenges facing higher education today.

Accessibility within open educational resources and practices for disabled learners: a systematic literature review This link opens in a new windowThis paper provides several recommendations to increase accessibility within OER and help design more accessible OER for students with functional diversity. - Changing our (Dis)Course: A Distinctive Social Justice Aligned Definition of Open Education This link opens in a new windowThe paper begins by outlining the method of texts selection, including defining the three principles of social justice (redistributive, recognitive and representational justice) used as an analytical lens.

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION This link opens in a new windowBook chapter detailing bringing inclusivity into course design. - Inclusive Design and Design Justice: Strategies to Shape Our Classes and Communities This link opens in a new windowDesign matters in higher education. Inclusive design and design justice provide frameworks and strategies that are attentive to learners for whom education has not typically been designed.

Open and Inclusive Education – Connections to Universal Design This link opens in a new windowThis chapter explores how we can ensure that learning materials are not only affordable, but equitable for a diverse population. - Open for Antiracism This link opens in a new windowA series of four webinars focused on ways to use OER for antiracism education.

Open Pedagogy Notebook This link opens in a new window“Open Pedagogy,” as we engage with it, is a site of praxis, a place where theories about learning, teaching, technology, and social justice enter into a conversation with each other and inform the development of educational practices and structures. This site is dynamic, contested, constantly under revision, and resists static definitional claims.

Preparing for a More Inclusive Course This link opens in a new windowTeaching to Promote Inclusion and Celebrate Diversity - Supporting LGBTQ-Inclusive Teaching How Open Digital Materials Can Help This link opens in a new windowThis report aims to help set a research and practice agenda for education leaders that envisions ways to combine lessons learned from both the LGBTQ advocacy and open education fields. “Open Educational Resource LibGuide” by Rachel Becker and Madison Area Technical College Libraries is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 International license.

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