The Open for Antiracism Program (OFAR) supports faculty to leverage OER and Open Pedagogy to make their teaching antiracist. Participants learn to use existing OER, and improve upon it by adding underrepresented viewpoints and diverse and inclusive content to their classroom materials, in collaboration with their students.
While the setting of OFAR is US community colleges, we wish to use the setting of OEGlobal 24 in Brisbane to learn how our approach can (or cannot) be applied in other settings, for example addressing the challenges and benefits of utilizing OER and Open Pedagogies within indigenous and tribal colleges and communities.
To participate in OFAR, faculty teams of up to six instructors from a single college apply together. A letter of support from an administrator is requested to ensure that leadership at participating institutions are engaged and available for end-of-program feedback. Outcomes over multiple semesters for participating faculty are collected and analyzed to determine if implementing antiracist open pedagogy impacted student success, particularly for traditionally underserved students. Annual research on faculty and student experiences in the program document impact and improve program design. For example, after participating in the program, participants report significantly greater confidence in discussing topics of race and racism with their students.
During this interactive session, you will learn about the changes that faculty make in creating antiracist classrooms and how their participation impacts their home institutions. We are particularly interested in understanding how the OFAR model of leveraging OER and Open Pedagogy can (or cannot) support teaching transformations beyond the US, and/or with First Nations peoples.
Program leadership from the Community College Consortium for OER (CCCOER) and College of the Canyons will ask attendees to share how their institutions are engaging in inclusive and antiracist teaching practices to improve student success particularly for traditionally marginalized and underserved students.
The interactive discussion will conclude with the question of how Open Education can more effectively engage with antiracist and inclusive pedagogy.
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[Session 4A]: Anti-racism (workshop)ReferencesDaly, U.T., Glapa-Grossklag, J., Nguyen, A. and Valenzuela, I. (2022), "Open for antiracism: supporting educators to use open education for antiracist teaching", Journal for Multicultural Education, Vol. 16 No. 5, pp. 456-490.
https://doi.org/10.1108/JME-02-2022-0020Author KeywordsAntiracism, Social Justice, Community colleges
