One of the benefits of open licenses is the ability for others to take an OER and adapt it to make it more inclusive. But what does that mean? What is involved in that process? Where do you begin? In this session, we share our reflections on a 10-month collaborative, multi-institutional project to adapt an Introduction to Psychology open textbook through the lenses of diversity, equity, and inclusion. We will share our process, successes, and insights we gained through this project. We will talk about collaboration, roles, how students contributed to the adaptation, and our one-day sprint to get all the content into Pressbooks. We will also share the challenges we experienced and explore the question: “If we could do it all again, what would we do differently?”
Attendees of this session will be able to:- Define what an equity, diversity, and inclusion OER adaptation project involves (or could involve).
- Describe the roles people can play in a collaborative OER adaptation project focused on equity.
- Critically consider the limitations of adaptation when wanting to create an OER that centres equity, diversity, and inclusion.
- Reflect on your own OER projects to identify opportunities to make them more inclusive and collaborative.
