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Open for Antiracism: Leveraging Open Education to Support Antiracism in the Classroom, 4 years in review
Tue March 4, 2025 @ 5:00 pm - 5:45 pm GMT
In this 45-minute panel discussion, we address the question: “How can the open education field engage effectively with antiracist pedagogy?” The Open for Antiracism Program (OFAR) provides an example from its four years of programming that supports. California community college faculty to transform their classrooms to be antiracist through the affordances of OER and open pedagogy. Now in its fifth year, OFAR has supported almost 200 instructors from over 40 institutions to learn to adapt and author OER, integrating antiracist activities and perspectives and co-creating materials with their students.
 Two propositions inform the design of OFAR:
- Academics wish to change their classroom practices to be antiracist and need guidance on promising practices and a safe place to explore with peers;
- OER and open pedagogy can be effective tools to transform classrooms to be antiracist.
Program participants learn about antiracist pedagogy, OER, and open pedagogy. Participants then implement a change to their teaching by integrating OER or open pedagogy to make their class antiracist. Participants receive ongoing support through webinars, coaching, and OER support.Â
In this session, attendees will learn about program design and research on faculty perceptions and student outcomes. In addition, attendees will hear from one of the program’s course facilitators about the successes and challenges of leading faculty in a discovery of the intersections between open education and antiracist pedagogy.The audience will be invited to share how they can apply this work in their own context to improve student success for marginalized and underserved students.
Panelists:
- Laura Dunn, Program Director, Open for Antiracism, Director of Teaching, Learning, and Assessment, Santa Clara University
- James Glapa-Grossklag, Co-Director, Open for Antiracism, Dean, Educational Technology, Learning Resources and Distance Learning, College of the Canyons
- Joy Shoemate, Course Developer and Facilitator, Open for Antiracism, Director of Online Education, College of the Canyons
