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Open educational resources: expanding equity or reflecting and furthering inequities?
In this paper I argue that open educational resources (OER), such as open textbooks, are an appropriate and worthwhile response to consider as colleges and universities shift to digital modes of teaching and learning. However, without scrutiny, such efforts may reflect or reinforce structural inequi...
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7539752/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33046953 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11423-020-09840-y |
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| description | In this paper I argue that open educational resources (OER), such as open textbooks, are an appropriate and worthwhile response to consider as colleges and universities shift to digital modes of teaching and learning. However, without scrutiny, such efforts may reflect or reinforce structural inequities. Thus, OER can be a mixed blessing, expanding inclusion and equity in some areas, but furthering inequities in others. |
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| spelling | pubmed-75397522020-10-08 Open educational resources: expanding equity or reflecting and furthering inequities? Veletsianos, George Educ Technol Res Dev Article In this paper I argue that open educational resources (OER), such as open textbooks, are an appropriate and worthwhile response to consider as colleges and universities shift to digital modes of teaching and learning. However, without scrutiny, such efforts may reflect or reinforce structural inequities. Thus, OER can be a mixed blessing, expanding inclusion and equity in some areas, but furthering inequities in others. Springer US 2020-10-07 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC7539752/ /pubmed/33046953 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11423-020-09840-y Text en © Association for Educational Communications and Technology 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
| spellingShingle | Article Veletsianos, George Open educational resources: expanding equity or reflecting and furthering inequities? |
| title | Open educational resources: expanding equity or reflecting and furthering inequities? |
| title_full | Open educational resources: expanding equity or reflecting and furthering inequities? |
| title_fullStr | Open educational resources: expanding equity or reflecting and furthering inequities? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Open educational resources: expanding equity or reflecting and furthering inequities? |
| title_short | Open educational resources: expanding equity or reflecting and furthering inequities? |
| title_sort | open educational resources: expanding equity or reflecting and furthering inequities? |
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| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7539752/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33046953 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11423-020-09840-y |
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