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Inclusive Open Education: Presumptions, Principles, And Practices, Benjamin Croft, Monica Brown
Inclusive Open Education: Presumptions, Principles, And Practices, Benjamin Croft, Monica Brown
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Open education has long been forwarded as a producer of equity. However, there currently exists a lack of critical engagement with issues of justice in open educational practices (OEP). While the affordances of open education have potential for increasing equity, creating knowledge alongside learners is inherently rife with complexities for inclusion and diversity. As online faculty build relationships with and between students and engage in unconventional but authentic instruction, they must be cognizant of the ways in which historically underrepresented populations are systematically marginalized and might be excluded from full participation. This paper seeks to investigate tensions at the nexus …