Open Education: Improving Access and Fostering Change

In this session, Amanda Coolidge will walk participants through the what why, and how of open educational resources. She will share issues of access, affordability, and equitable design principles that lay the foundations for open practice. Further, she will highlight the digital inequities that have been surfaced and heightened as a result of the pandemic and how open practices can, in some ways, alleviate those inequities. In addition, Amanda will share examples of open education practices in the post secondary environment.