Resources for Open Educational Practices

We collected a heap of OEP resources during last year’s CCCOER Open Pedagogy Summer Adventure.

For zeroing in on social justice, I thought I remembered an open textbook somewhere where students had written chapters reviewing key papers. But I could not locate it. So I tried a search on Pressbooks Directory and found that CUNY’s Evaluating OER for Social Justice looks very relevant.

The authors have expanded a typical OER evaluation rubric to include criteria for addressing social justice and equity, see the Social Justice Focused OER Evaluation Rubric, e.g.

Recognizes key contributors from a variety of backgrounds and cites papers and data from diverse authors, researchers, and organizations.

Real-world examples and images represent diverse perspectives and consider the intersectionality and context of the depiction (e.g. use preferences of the subject, avoid perpetuating a stereotype, are all populations equally “active” in the material, do the context or setting images/examples indicate anything negative, etc.).

and several more.