Open Educational Resources
News and information for UMGC Faculty on using OERs in the online classroom.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in OER
Articles
- Higher Ed’s Watershed Moment for Access and Equity
- A Reflection on the “Open for Antiracism” Course
- Interview with “Open for Antiracism” Course Developer
- Accessibility in Open Educational Resources Is Resilience
- Interrogating and Supplementing OER Through a Decolonized Lens
- Using Open Educational Resources to Create a Culturally Relevant Classroom
- Accessibility in User Experience: How to Include People with Disabilities
- Updated Guide Tackles Equity and Racial Justice in Use of Adaptive Courseware
- Inclusive Design and Design Justice: Strategies to Shape Our Classes and Communities
- How Can Teaching Materials Promote Equity?
- The ADA Has Fallen Short for Black Students. It's Past Time to Fix That
- Improving the Digital Accessibility of OER: A Reflective Guide
- Accessibility Dissonance: The Disability Community's Overlooked Fight for Remote Learning
- Disabled Students Already Faced Learning Barriers. Then Coronavirus Forced an Abrupt Shift to Online Classes.
- We Don’t Have to Sacrifice Cultural Relevancy While Learning Online
- Accessibility within Open Educational Resources and Practices for Disabled Learners: A Systematic Literature Review
- Supporting LGBTQ-Inclusive Teaching
- Open Resources: Improving Access for Everyone
- Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in OpenStax Textbooks
- Self-Publishing Guide: Accessibility, Diversity, and Inclusion
- OER and Accessibility: Working Towards Inclusive Learning
- Equity & Openness: Perspectives from North American Colleges and Universities
- Openness, Equality and Inclusion
- Can OER Be More Inclusive and Equitable?
- OER and OEP for Access, Equity, Equality, Quality, Inclusiveness, and Empowering Lifelong Learning
- Accessibility and Open Educational Resources
- Introduction to Open Education: Towards a Human Rights Theory
- “Open”-ing Up Courses for Diversity and Deeper Learning
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Disabled And Here• "Disabled And Here is a disability-led stock image and interview series celebrating disabled Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC)."
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The Gender Spectrum Collection: Stock Photos Beyond the Binary• "The Gender Spectrum Collection is a stock photo library featuring images of trans and non-binary models that go beyond the clichés. This collection aims to help media better represent members of these communities as people not necessarily defined by their gender identities—people with careers, relationships, talents, passions, and home lives."
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Nappy• "[W]e launched nappy ... to provide beautiful, high-res photos of black and brown people to startups, brands, agencies, and everyone else. Nappy makes it easy for companies to be purposeful about representation in their designs, presentations, and advertisements."
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WOCinTechChat• This collection was created to address "the problem of not having visible representations of women of color engaging in technical tasks in stock images."
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Anthro Illustrated• "Anthro Illustrated offers free digital illustrations of diverse anthropologists for non-commercial use."
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PICNOI• "We are a coop of stock image photography. We recognize that most other FREE stock image sites have very few or no images of people of color. We sought out to create a space where publishers, bloggers, website owners, marketers, designers, graphic artists, advertisers and the like can easily search and find diverse multi-racial images."
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AllGo• "[A]collection of stock photography featuring plus-size office workers—available at no cost—to increase the representation of plus-size office workers in media"
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Iwaria• Stock photos from Africa
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Redefining Women• Diverse icons of women
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"Queer in Tech"• "We created this photo set to promote the visibility of queer and gender-nonconforming (GNC) people in technology, who are often under-represented as workers powering the creative, technical, and business leadership of groundbreaking tech companies and products."
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Images of Empowerment• "[L]ibrary of images celebrating women's lives and their work in 11 countries around the world"
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Wikimedia Commons LGBT Category• Collection of open images organized under various LGBT categories
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Creative Commons Image Search• LGBT and other diversity images based on search terms
• Images available under different CC licenses
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