Who Writes OER

Have you considered ways in which OER has or has not broken down barriers and existing power structures that exist in our courses? Why is who writes OER an important question to ask ourselves as we strive to be anti-racist in our approaches to teaching and learning in our diverse community college classrooms? 

I. Review Video

 

II. Review Poster

• The presentation poster authored by Malina Thiede, SUNY Plattsburgh, disaggregates commercial and open textbook authors by gender, race, rank, and role, degree attainment.
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III. Listen to NPR titled: "Lies My Teacher Told Me"

Please listen to (or read) this NPR interview with James Loewen (link) author of Lies my Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong.  Loewen discusses some obvious manifestations of racism in history texts, but some of the issues with our course materials may be less overt.

*As you listen, consider the course materials in your own courses. Whose voices are represented? Whose are excluded? Which topics may have been omitted and why?