Open Educational Resources (OER)

Open educational resources allow faculty to incorporate diverse voices, images, examples, and activities to reflect a more inclusive worldview.

The following openly licensed image libraries can be used to find images to integrate into learning materials.

Here are some good examples of projects that other colleges have created to use open educational materials to help with culturally responsive teaching. 

• Northeast State Community College in Tennessee - Reclaiming Our Past: The Truth about Tennessee. This course emphasizes underrepresented people's contributions to the state by drawing on various OER materials.
• Bunker Hill Community College in Boston - Aurora Bautista asked her students to create ethnographies of the local Chinatown neighborhood by conducting interviews with residents, recording observations, taking photos of the area, and creating e-portfolios.  These became openly licensed resources which the instructor used as course materials for the next semester (where the project was repeated to grow the collection).
• City University of New York (CUNY) system - Faculty found that a criminal justice course textbook showed images of males of color as the criminals most of the time.  They created a new open-access text without that stereotype and including more representative U.S. crime statistics.

Achieving the Dream encourages faculty to share their open educational resources that promote culturally responsive teaching to this archive.