OER for Social Justice

OER for Social Justice was a three-year initiative to support the creation and use of open educational resources (OER) across four California private institutions.

With $1,533,300 in funding from the U.S. Department of Education, librarians from LMU, Saint Mary’s College of California, Santa Clara University, and the University of San Francisco recruited, incentivized, and prepared 11 faculty teams to adapt, create, and publish OER that integrated diverse, equitable, inclusive, and anti-racist resources into high-enrollment courses across multiple disciplines. 
OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that are free of cost and access barriers, and which also carry legal permission for open use. They can include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.

Learn more about the grant and meet our 11 faculty teams.