"Practitioner Perspectives": OER and a Call for Equity

Autor/in	DeRosa, Robin
Titel	"Practitioner Perspectives": OER and a Call for Equity
Quelle	In: New England Journal of Higher Education, (2020) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1938-5978
Schlagwörter	COVID-19; Pandemics; School Closing; Student Needs; Social Justice; Equal Education; Open Educational Resources; At Risk Students; College Students + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? School closings; Schule; Schließung; Schließung (von Schulen); Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Collegestudent
Abstract	When COVID-19 shut down college campuses, faculty and staff knew that many students would be challenged by the quick transition to emergency remote learning. What may have surprised many faculty, though, was the impact that COVID-19 had on students' basic needs and how that impact so thoroughly halted their ability to continue their learning. For some students (and even contingent faculty and staff) COVID has augmented inequities that were already present. Continuing institutional failures to ameliorate or address these inequities can no longer be tolerated, both because the vulnerable in colleges are at a breaking point from a global pandemic and because society has been called out by a social justice movement that is demanding real change at last. Is open education a way to answer this call? Open educational resources (OER) are well-documented, especially for poor students and students of color. When imagining the reasons for these improvements in "student success," it is generally chalked up to cost savings; after all, students can't learn from a book they can't afford. In this article the author discusses how the use of OER is not only a way to save individual students money, but a a chance to rebuild a post-COVID university that sees basic needs as integral to any learner's academic success and actively develops ways to integrate basic needs with the missions of institutions. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01