Designing OER with Equity: An Example of Situating Equity in a Community College Statistics Course Redesign

Shadisadat Ghaderi

doi:10.55982/openpraxis.15.3.572

Designing OER with Equity: An Example of Situating Equity in a Community College Statistics Course Redesign

Open Praxis

Volume 15 (2023): Issue 3

By: Shadisadat Ghaderi

Open Access

|Sep 2023

Abstract

This article showcases an example of a large-scale open educational resource (OER) statistics course redesign at Guttman Community College from evaluation, creation, and development. It highlights ways I identified students’ needs and responded to them, integrated equity into the OER design by describing how social justice principles were applied, as well as explicit examples of integration of culturally and locally relevant content in the design. This practical illustration of a course redesign is significant due to the lack of literature available on creating culturally and locally relevant and responsive OER. It is the hope that this example will encourage and inform the development of other such relevant and responsive OER projects to promote equity within open education.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.55982/openpraxis.15.3.572 | Journal eISSN: 2304-070X

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Language: English

Page range: 235 - 243

Submitted on: Jun 25, 2023

Accepted on: Aug 15, 2023

Published on: Sep 5, 2023

Published by: International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE)

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Keywords:

open educational resources,

open education,

equity pedagogy,

culturally relevant pedagogy,

social justice principles

© 2023 Shadisadat Ghaderi, published by International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE)
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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