It’s Not (Just) About the Cost: Academic Libraries and Intentionally Engaged OER for Social Justice
Seiferle-Valencia, Marco
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Title
It’s Not (Just) About the Cost: Academic Libraries and Intentionally Engaged OER for Social Justice
Author(s)
Seiferle-Valencia, Marco
Issue Date
2020
Keyword(s)
open educational resources
social justice
engaged pedagogy
Abstract
How can librarians seize the radical affordances of OER to complicate standard narratives with the stories of those historically and systemically marginalized? Using work created through the University of Idaho’s Think Open Fellows 2019–20 Cohort as a starting point, the author explores how these projects created OER content that demonstrates Lambert’s three principles of OER and social justice. The author discusses the unique potentials of the academic library to support intentionally engaged OER as well as the responsibility of librarians to center marginalized perspectives in their work with faculty as cocreators and identifiers of OER. A discussion of some of the transformative aspects of this work follows, including the potential impacts on librarians with marginalized identities in creating intentionally engaged OER, as briefly examined through bell hooks’s notion of engaged pedagogy. The article concludes with a call to action, inspired by hooks and Austin, to specifically and intentionally diversify the perspectives represented in the OER we identify and create as librarians.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Illinois School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Series/Report Name or Number
Library Trends 69 (2). Fall 2020
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/109297
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2020.0042
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