Open Access Week 2022: LATN Fellowship: Exploring Inclusive Solutions in OER

These are the slides for the Open Access Week 2022 webinar Ash Barber presented through the Open Educational Practice Special Interest Group (OEP-SIG) on her Libraries of the Australian Technology Network (LATN) Fellowship.

Link to the recording below.

Abstract: 

With an underrepresentation of diverse voices in traditionally published  textbooks, Open Educational Resources (OER) provide an opportunity to  address the problem of imbalance by opening authorship to marginalised  groups – but how do we, as open educational practitioners, advocates and  librarians, facilitate and engage in respectful collaborations to grow these powerful projects?

In this talk, Ash Barber discusses her  Libraries of the Australian Technology Network (LATN) Fellowship tour of North America which explores this question and seeks practical guiding  resources for adaptation and reuse by Australian librarians. Ash offers  key insights gleaned so far as well as hints of the forthcoming online  resource which will provide a place for Australian librarians to begin facilitating the creation of inclusive OER.