Remixing Open Textbooks through an Equity Lens (ROTEL):
Culturally Relevant Open Textbooks for High Enrollment General Education Courses and Career and Professional Courses at Six Public Massachusetts Colleges
The ROTEL initiative promotes textbook affordability, student success, and inclusion and equity to benefit all students, particularly minoritized students at our six institutions. The project will provide stipends for faculty to remix and/or develop accessible, intentionally inclusive open textbooks and other OER that reflect students’ local and lived experiences.
This is one among many items I will regularly tag in Pinboard as oegconnect, and automatically post tagged as #OEGConnect to Mastodon. Do you know of something else we should share like this? Just reply below and we will check it out.
I am a part of this project, and it’s amazing! The Revised edition of my Heritages of Change textbook (finalist for the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion award!) - https://rotel.pressbooks.pub/heritagesofchange/- and the Revised Edition of my OER textbook Why Do I Have to Take This Course? A Guide to General Education just came out! The latter has updated references to current issues, additional activities, course examples for instructors, etc. If you feel so inclined, please check it out and pass the news along to your faculty! Why Do I Have to Take This Course? [Revised Edition] – Simple Book Publishing
Amazing, indeed Kisha. This morning I was speaking with @steel from Pressbooks about their efforts of enabling publishing/creating in more languages as a means of making content more accessible globally.
He mentioned ROTEL as another way open textbooks can be remixed to include more equitable language and cultural appropriateness. So I thought it worth resharing here.
I hope you and your colleagues keep us updated here on new projects or events. It’s not too early (that’s for everyone reading this) to being thinking about what events.activities you might want to plan for the next Open Education Week March 3-7, 2025)]