Members of UT Austin's OER Working Group received a mini grant from our campus' Center for Teaching & Learning to develop an instructor learning community (ILC) focused on OER and affordable course materials as tools for equitable and inclusive teaching practices.
The affordable nature of these materials allows students to have immediate access, and open licenses enable instructors to improve cultural responsiveness, accessibility, and innovative pedagogies.
Our goals for the ILC were to enable participants to:
• Understand the spectrum of affordable learning materials available openly or through campus services, with an emphasis on OER
• Search for OER relevant to the courses they teach in repositories and evaluate them using open rubrics
• Evaluate course materials for basic accessibility best practices and cultural responsiveness; identify opportunities to enhance these aspects of OER and self-created course materials
• Identify and interpret open licenses associated with OER created by others and those they wish to apply to their own materials
- Subject:
- Education
- Higher Education
- Material Type:
- Full Course
- Author:
- Hannah Chapman Tripp
- Lydia Fletcher
- Ashley Morrison
- Date Added:
- 05/11/2022