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Nearly half of the faculty interviewed shared that they had implemented activities aimed at incorporating students’ experiences into their curriculum by incorporating student voices, directly engaging students in the co-creation of materials, and including a diverse range of inclusive media materials. Faculty Survey, 2023
Students Voices
Child, Family, and Community
Anna Rodriguez, Child Development/Education faculty at Moorpark College guided her students through reflecting on various topics, such as identity, culture, schooling, and family, from personal experiences. They then used those reflections as a springboard to share individual stories in the form of children’s literature.
Children’s Books written by the students can be found in Google Drive CD M03 Children’s Books for Sharing
Stories shared via read-aloud recordings on YouTube
OFAR Participant Reflections
At the close of the spring semester, faculty participants reflected on the process of using OER and open pedagogy to make their courses antiracist. In their final reflections, participants explain:
- how they adapted open educational resources or practices into their courses to specifically address antiracism
- how receptive their students have been to the changes
- how they have or plan to share this experience with others on their campuses
- any lessons learned that would be helpful to others embarking on this journey
Introduction to Ethnic Studies
Introduction to Biology
Butte College Introduction to Biology: Biologist Biographies
Action Plans & Implementation
Each year a selection of past participants are asked to present their action plans to the new cohort. They share their journey from plan to implementation with their students, detailing student responses and adjustments made. View the entire Action Plans & Project Examples playlist on YouTube
Action Plans & Project Examples Playlist, 2020 – 2023
End-of-Year Team Showcases
To celebrate the end of their year-long OFAR journey, every college team shared their overall experience in the OFAR program at the final event of the program. Each team created a virtual presentation to answer the following questions:
- Summarize your team’s overall approach to implementing changes based on OFAR.
- How receptive, overall, have your students been to your OFAR projects?
- How has your team’s participation in OFAR impacted your institution?
- What are the next steps for your institution’s antiracist work?
- What impact do you hope to have on your institution in the future?
2023 OFAR Team Showcases Playlist
Course Materials
Each participant shared their revised syllabi and antiracist assignment(s) to assist other faculty who are interested in doing this work. These artifacts are openly licensed, organized by course name, and available in the Community College Consortium for OER Group in the OER Commons repository.