This presentation will discuss the outcomes of a collaborative open pedagogy program which paired student workers with faculty to advance inclusive equity-based pedagogy in OER. This program, funded by our University Equal Opportunity Planning Committee (EOPC), supported a cohort of faculty and student collaborators in developing OER that better reflect our student diversity and include marginalized voices and experiences historically absent in disciplinary discourses and commercially produced textbooks. In addition to producing no-cost course materials, this program encouraged culturally responsive, inclusive pedagogy by requiring faculty to add a social justice component to their syllabus. While faculty often cite the necessary time investment as an impediment to OER development, having student assistants helped to address that issue in addition to providing an engaged learning experience for students in which they were knowledge creators rather than consumers.
Attendees of this session will be able to:- Gain an understanding of an OER creation program model that can support faculty and student collaboration and further social justice aims.
- Evaluate the impact of a program on student learning around open practices
- Reflect on the effectiveness of the program on student/faculty collaborations around OER development
