{"id":7494,"date":"2023-11-20T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.everylearnereverywhere.org\/?p=7494"},"modified":"2023-11-20T08:43:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T14:43:39","slug":"a-practical-course-on-leveraging-culturally-relevant-oer-in-tribal-colleges-and-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everylearnereverywhere.org\/es\/blog\/a-practical-course-on-leveraging-culturally-relevant-oer-in-tribal-colleges-and-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"A Practical Course on Leveraging Culturally Relevant OER in Tribal Colleges and Universities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Achieving the Dream has combined two of its existing programs \u2014 helping faculty develop open education resources (OER) and delivering capacity-building support to Tribal Colleges and Universities \u2014 to create a new program on creating culturally relevant OER.<\/p>\n

The six-part online course, Sustaining Indigenous Culture: Using OER to Design Authentic Learning Experiences<\/a>, offered in partnership with Every Learner Everywhere\u00ae, was delivered first to a cohort of faculty from 15 Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) in spring of 2023.<\/p>\n

Richard Sebastian, a teaching and learning coach at Achieving the Dream (ATD), says the case for OER generally \u2014 that commercial textbooks and course content are often biased or lacking in culturally diverse teaching \u2014 may be well understood. But OER doesn\u2019t automatically solve that problem.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe think broadly of OER as sharing knowledge, and we think of that as a good thing because everybody gets to use it,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut sharing knowledge can mean something very different in another culture and specifically in a tribal college. There\u2019s a colonial history of theft and of misrepresentation of tribal knowledge and cultural practices. Some knowledge can only be shared by representatives in the tribe.\u201d<\/p>\n