One concerns I often hear about #OER is risk of exploitation of women and People of Color. Granted looking from cis male privilege perspective but I see #OER as a path to ending exploitation. If you are an academic you are exploited. #digped #femedtech
you toil under impossible working conditions and must produce an increasing amount of research and publications. You then have to give up the rights to this work to a publisher for no enumeration while publishers go and jack taxpayers for subscriptions
For those who like the quilt of knowledge metaphor for learning: https://lithub.com/what-if-we-called-it-the-flax-age-instead-of-the-iron-age/ #femedtech
The entire system is built on exploitation and women and People of color already in precarious spots in the Academy are most at risk. It is pay to play to the core? How then does #OER lead to worse exploitation? #femedtech #digped
@Bali_Maha Of course. This makes so much sense. I was approaching it from a bias of only looking at research and not so much instructional resources. We need to frame #oer then as a way of restoring time and supporting each other as a community
@Ebonyteach I won't be at #ncte19, sad to miss everyone. I will be hanging on the hashtag though and happy to gather with other educators attending from their couches.
@Bali_Maha No one teaches how to teach so they repeat the mistakes to how they were taught. Rigor from the proto-indian-eurpoean root of "reig" to be stretched, or stiff....maybe rigor took the wrong meaning with stiff. I want to stretch my students
@kidslitclub We could organize a few impromptu remote sessions for people remoting into #ncte19. No need to spend $1,000s to learn with our peers. I would be happy to organize a block of sessions or Twitter chats or something
@Bali_Maha Great point on publishing research in High Impact journals being required for tenure, I didn't say no to copyrighted course material and./or research until after I had tenure.
then to present research you have to pay hundreds of dollars to register for a conference to a "professional organization" and spend 1000s to get there. They then use your name cache and work to sell more tickets at $100s to others can see your work
@Bali_Maha Chalk it up to another example of #oer needing to be more about #ethos rather than #stuff and #money, we can create intentionally hospitable communities to help support contingent faculty. #femedtech
@screencasto Been actually trying to build out my video page https://jgregorymcverry.com/myvideos have feeds anyone can subscribe to using their RSS reader, almost all video done in @screencasto