Using Open Educational Resources to Promote Social Justice

✍ Scribed by CJ Ivory (editor), Angela Pashia (editor)

• Publisher: Assoc of College & Research Libraries
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 323
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Using Open Educational Resources to Promote Social Justice explores the opportunities and challenges of moving the discussion about open educational resources (OER) beyond affordability to address structural inequities found throughout academia and scholarly publishing. OER have the potential to celebrate research done by marginalized populations in the context of their own communities, to amplify the voices of those who have the knowledge but have been excluded from formal prestige networks, and to engage students as co-creators of learning content that is relevant and respectful of their cultural contexts.
 
Edited by academic librarians with experience advocating across campus, Using Open Educational Resources to Promote Social Justice takes a multidisciplinary approach and is filled with examples of the ways OER and open pedagogy can be used to support social justice in education. In five sections, it covers a wide range of topics from theoretical critiques to multidisciplinary examples of OER development in practice to examinations of institutional support for OER development.

• Section I: Theory and Problematizing
• Section II: Open Praxis
• Section III: Decolonizing Learning in the Global South
• Section IV: Scaling Up with Institutional Policies (Approaches)
• Section V: Building and Decolonizing OER Platforms 

Using Open Educational Resources to Promote Social Justice offers something for everyone who advocates for open pedagogy and OER across campus, from librarians to teaching faculty to centers for teaching and learning. It demonstrates ways that open pedagogy—and especially practices that encourage students to participate in building or localizing OER—can provide a way to incorporate a wider range of perspectives into original research projects and add these crucial perspectives into the scholarly discourse.
 
This book is also available as an open access edition at https://bit.ly/ACRLOERSJ.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Introduction
Section I. Theory and Problematizing
CH1. The Unrealized Promise of OER:
CH2. Repairing the Curriculum:
CH3. On Being Visible:
Section II. Open Praxis
CH4. Centering Justice in Content Development:
CH5. Pay It Forward:
CH6. Reframing Social Work Education Using OER
CH7. Deconstructing Textbooks for Equity:
Section III. Decolonizing Learning in the Global South
CH8. Open Textbooks, Intuitive Pedagogy, and Social Justice
CH9. Opportunities and Challenges in the Development and Usage of Open Textbooks
CH10. Where Are We on the Map?
Section IV. Scaling Up with Institutional Policies
CH11. Reflecting on the Institutional Organization of Academic “Knowledge”
CH12. Beyond Affordability:
CH13. OER, Social Justice, and Online Professional Development
Section V. Building and Decolonizing OER Platforms
CH14. Decolonizing Wikipedia
CH15. Bringing Marginalized Voices into the Music Theory Curriculum
CH16. An Institute-Based Approach to OER in Digital Caribbean Studies
About the Authors