Jennifer Jordan

[O]pen pedagogy and Black feminist pedagogy seek to challenge the role of both educators and students as well the utility of assignments.

Jasmine Roberts-Crews, The Black Feminist Pedagogical Origins of Open Education

Today, I am speaking at a symposium developed to bring together educators and students to explore to address power, equity, and inclusion in education. This event, offered through UNM’s College of Population Health, was developed for educators, scholars, and students.

I am planning to talk about my experiences learning about UNM students and supporting both faculty and students with open educational resource development. As an OER creator myself, I know how exciting it can be to develop and publish materials that were made specifically for your students. Arinto et al. suggest that “OER creation as a form of empowerment for educators and students… is fostered by professional development, membership in a community of practice and personal qualities and motivations related to personal histories as well as professional identities.”

Developing an OER program can be complex because it requires layers of support for faculty at different points of their OER creation, from professional development throughout the creation process to supportive structures to help faculty review, revise, and publish their work.

Down below, I am sharing my presentation, which draws information from several different sources, including UNM’s Faculty OER Guide:

Resources for Educators Practicing and Examining Equity in the Open

In addition to the presentation, I wanted to share helpful resources for attendees of this symposium because that’s what open education is all about!

The resources down below were adapted from the handout Reconsidering Success: Equity Goals for Open Education Handout, which is licensed CC BY 4.0. I hope this is helpful!

• The 6 R’s of Indigenous OER’s: Rethinking and Reworking Indigenous Open Education [Streaming Video] – Kayla Lar-Son’s keynote presentation at OEGlobal23 describes an Indigenous-focused framework for OER.
• Doing the Work: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Open Educational Resources [Website] – Training by Heather Blicher, Abbey Gaterud, Valencia Scott, Veronica Vold, Michaela Willi Hooper, and Stephanie Lenox to develop student-centered textbooks that fully integrate with dynamic courses.
• Enhancing Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) in Open Educational Resources (OER) This guide provides a framework and tips to enhance inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility in Open Educational Resources.
• Equity-minded Open Course Design [Website] – Training by Veronica Vold highlighting use of four frameworks for equity-minded open course design, including Universal Design for Learning (UDL), Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT), Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TILT), and Open Educational Practices (OEP). 
• Faculty OER Guide [Website] – Faculty guide by Jennifer Jordan and Kiernan Cantergiani intended for OER creators developing materials for the New Mexico OER Consortium.
• JEADI in Open Publishing: page from my OER Resource Libguide that contains more resources and guidance for faculty interested in developing OER with an equity lens.
• Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism (IDEA) Audit Framework Academic Senate for California Community Colleges’ (ASCCC) Open Educational Resources Initiative (OERI) 
• OER Grant Program @ UNM [Website] – Faculty-facing landing page for University of New Mexico Open Textbook Pilot Program.
• OER for Social Justice rubric – slides, rubric, and resources prepared by Swetta Abeyta, Nicola Andrews, Nataly Blas, Jamie Hazlitt, and Karna Younger for 2024 IDEAL conference. Resource designed to support instructors and OER creators in both analyzing existing OER and applying critically to their own work.
• OER for Social Justice [Website] – Home page for the federal OER grant project run by Loyola Marymount University, Saint Mary’s College of California, Santa Clara University, and the University of San Francisco.
• Open Voices, Just Choices: OER for Social Justice Faculty Handbook [Website] – Pressbook by Karna Younger and Theresa Huff designed to support faculty who adapt, create, and publish OER that integrate diverse, equitable, inclusive, and anti-racist resources into high-enrollment courses across multiple disciplines.  Includes recordings from Open Choices, Just Voices speaker series.
• Remixing Open Textbooks through an Equity Lens (ROTEL) [Website] – Home page for project to develop culturally relevant open textbooks for high enrollment courses at 6 public Massachusetts colleges.
• Toolkit for Creating Culturally Relevant OER – ROTEL curated list of a variety of resources available to faculty authors to incorporate accessibility and DEI in their OER.
• WisTech Open [Website] – Wisconsin Technical College System’s home page for OER projects.

References

Hodgkinson-Williams, C. & Arinto, P. B. (2017). Adoption and impact of OER in the Global South. Cape Town & Ottawa: African Minds, International Development Research Centre & Research on Open Educational Resources. (23) DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1005330

Lambert, S. R. (2018). Changing our (Dis)Course: A Distinctive Social Justice Aligned Definition of Open Education. Journal of Learning for Development, 5(3). https://doi.org/10.56059/jl4d.v5i3.290

Roberts-Crews, J. (2023). The Black Feminist Pedagogical Origins of Open Education. Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy. (23). https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/the-black-feminist-pedagogical-origins-of-open-education/