[Openbcit] FW: Catching up: Open Education and the Equity Gap

Hi there Fellow Open Educators, Here are a few resources that have been shared by the CCCOER-advisory group. I haven’t had a chance to peruse them all, but just from the abstracts, it sounds like interesting reading. Cheers, Rosario [image002] Rosario Passos, Instructional Development Consultant Learning and Teaching Centre, BCIT www.bcit.ca/ltc<../../../../../../All_Work_Data/www.bcit.ca/ltc> 3700 Willingdon Avenue, Burnaby, BC V5G 3H2 Tel: (604) 456 1266 [LTS_for_sig_2018-01] Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail From: cccoer-advisory(a)googlegroups.com [mailto:cccoer-advisory@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Una Daly Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2018 2:16 PM To: CCCOER Advisory &lt;cccoer-advisory(a)googlegroups.com&gt; Subject: Catching up: Open Education and the Equity Gap Dear Community, We’ve had a couple of great updates on this important topic in the last two weeks that you won’t want to miss. First two are the newest CCCOER guest blog posts and the last one is a peer-reviewed article from the International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. * Hurry Up and Slow Down: Indigenization and OER with Rose Roberts and Heather Ross<https://www.cccoer.org/2018/06/28/on-equity-diversity-inclusion-and… The intersection between OER and Indigenization is a new area within academia. OER is about opening up the world of knowledge to as many people as possible. Indigenization is about opening up the world of Indigenous reality to as many people as possible. The University of Saskatchewan (U of S) has identified Indigenization as one of its 4 pillars in its Institutional Strategic Framework. As an Indigenous person (Rose) who has worked within a western based educational institution for most of my work life, virtually everything that I do is indigenization. However, Indigenization as an academic institutional endeavor is a new phenomenon, and because it is relatively new, we are in many ways continuing to figure out what it is and how to go about it in a good way. * Reaching Underserved Students through Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning<https://www.cccoer.org/2018/06/28/on-equity-diversity-inclusion… Last month I was fortunate to hear Dr. J Luke Wood’s<http://onlineteachingconference.org/speaker/j-luke-wood-ph-d/> opening keynote, Reaching Underserved Students through Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning in the Online Environment, at the annual California Online Teaching Conference<http://onlineteachingconference.org/>g/>. Wood’s research at San Diego State University focuses on factors affecting the success of boys and men of color in education, with a specific focus on community colleges. He co-directs the Community College Equity Assessment Lab (CCEAL),<https://cceal.org/about-cceal/> a national research and practice center at San Diego State University. • The Impact of Open Educational Resources on Various Student Success Metrics (Intl. Journal of T&L in Higher Ed)<http://www.isetl.org/ijtlhe/pdf/IJTLHE3386.pdf> This article reports the results of a large-scale study (21,822 students) from University of Georgia regarding the impact of course-level faculty adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER). Results indicate that OER adoption does much more than simply save students money and address student debt concerns. OER improve end-of-course grades and decrease DFW (D, F, and Withdrawal letter grades) rates for all students. They also improve course grades at greater rates and decrease DFW rates at greater rates for Pell recipient students, part-time students, and populations historically underserved by higher education. OER address affordability, completion, attainment gap concerns, and learning. These findings contribute to a broadening perception of the value of OERs and their relevance to the great challenges facing higher education today. Enjoy, Una ---------------------------------------------- Una Daly Director, Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) Open Education Consortium (408)348-4346 Watch our archived webinars featuring Open Education Faculty, Thought Leaders, and Students https://www.cccoer.org/webinar/ -- If you have any questions, contact lizyata@oeconsortium.org<mailto:lizyata@oeconsortium.org> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CCCOER Advisory" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cccoer-advisory+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com<mailto:cccoer-advisory+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com>. To post to this group, send email to cccoer-advisory@googlegroups.com<mailto:cccoer-advisory@googlegroups.com>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.