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Book SynopsisEdited 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.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Section I. Theory and Problematizing
Chapter 1. The Unrealized Promise of OER: An Exploration of Copyright, the Open Movement, and Social Justice
Shanna Hollich
- Chapter 2. Repairing the Curriculum: Using OER to Fill Gaps
Kevin Adams and Samantha Dannick
- Chapter 3. On Being Visible: The Hidden Curriculum of Heteronormativity and Open Educational Resources
Thomas Weeks
- Section II. Open Praxis
Chapter 4. Centering Justice in Content Development: A Case Study of the Police Brutality Teach-Out
Julia Maxwell, Katya Gorecki, Ryan Henyard, and Benjamin Morse
- Chapter 5. Pay It Forward: Realizing The Promise of OER for the Next Generation of Learners
Kimberly S. Grotewold, Karen L. Kohler, and Elisabeth M. Krimbill
- Chapter 6. Reframing Social Work Education Using OER
Jennifer Wood and Mary Jo Orzech
- Chapter 7. Deconstructing Textbooks for Equity: Open Educational Resources and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
Elissah Becknell and Rebecca March
- Section III. Decolonizing Learning in the Global South
Chapter 8. Open Textbooks, Intuitive Pedagogy, and Social Justice
Glenda Cox, Bianca Masuku, and Michelle Willmers
- Chapter 9. Opportunities and Challenges in the Development and Usage of Open Textbooks in Institutions of Higher Learning to Promote Social Justice
Josiline Phiri Chigwada
- Chapter 10. Where Are We on the Map? The State of Open Educational Resources (OER) in Africa
Alkasim Hamisu Abdu
- Section IV. Scaling Up with Institutional Policies (Approaches)
Chapter 11. Reflecting on the Institutional Organization of Academic “Knowledge” as a Barrier to OER Construction and Adoption in Higher Education Curricula
Emily M. Doyle, Kristin Petrovic, Tanya Mudry, and Murray Anderson
- Chapter 12. Beyond Affordability: Developing Policy to Encourage Faculty to Explore OER as a Means to Create More Diverse, Inclusive, and Socially Conscious Course Materials
Dawn (Nikki) Cannon-Rech
- Chapter 13. OER, Social Justice, and Online Professional Development to Enhance Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at a University
Samantha Harlow and Melody Rood 229
- Section V. Building and Decolonizing OER Platforms
Chapter 14. Decolonizing Wikipedia
Ian Ramjohn
- Chapter 15. Using Open Educational Resources (OER) to Bring Marginalized Voices into the Music Theory Curriculum
Barbara Murphy and Claire Terrell
- Chapter 16. An Institute-Based Approach to OER in Digital Caribbean Studies
Perry Collins, HÉlÈne Huet, Laurie Taylor, Brittany Mistretta, Hannah Toombs, Anita Baksh, Nathan H. Dize, Juliet Glenn-Callender, Ronald Angelo Johnson, Aaron Kamugisha, K. Adele Okoli, LaËtitia Saint-Loubert, and Keja Valen
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