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Book Review: Using Open Educational Resources to Promote Social Justice in the Service of Equity by C.J. Ivory and Angela Pashia (2022)

Vivian Chin

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ow open are Open Educational Resources (OER)?How do OER texts address the needs and interests of diverse readers in and beyond the U.S.? Do OER texts reiterate the perspectives of an elitist academic community, or can they promote the voices of historically marginalized groups?Can OER shift pedagogy to promote social justice by providing easier access to texts?One may find such questions challenging to the process of OER adoption, Using Open Educational Resources to Promote Social Justice, edited by Ivory and Pashia (2022), addresses these and other salient questions.

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ow open are Open Educational Resources (OER)?How do OER texts address the needs and interests of diverse readers in and beyond the U.S.? Do OER texts reiterate the perspectives of an elitist academic community, or can they promote the voices of historically marginalized groups?Can OER shift pedagogy to promote social justice by providing easier access to texts?One may find such questions challenging to the process of OER adoption, Using Open Educational Resources to Promote Social Justice, edited by Ivory and Pashia (2022), addresses these and other salient questions.

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ow open are Open Educational Resources (OER)?How do OER texts address the needs and interests of diverse readers in and beyond the U.S.? Do OER texts reiterate the perspectives of an elitist academic community, or can they promote the voices of historically marginalized groups?Can OER shift pedagogy to promote social justice by providing easier access to texts?One may find such questions challenging to the process of OER adoption, Using Open Educational Resources to Promote Social Justice, edited by Ivory and Pashia (2022), addresses these and other salient questions.

Key concepts: Equity (law), Social justice, Service (business), Sociology, Economic Justice, Social equality, Political science, Business

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