California Consortium for Equitable Change in Hispanic Serving Institutions Open Educational Resources
What: CC ECHO is implementing a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion [DEI] framework for Open Educational Resources [OER] to design 20 high impact courses. Consortium members include West Hills College Lemoore, College of Marin, Allan Hancock College, and College of the Canyons, all of which are Hispanic Serving Institutions [HSIs]. The grant targets faculty and students at California Community Colleges, federally recognized HSIs, emerging HSIs, and national colleges and universities.
Who: Allan Hancock College, College of the Canyons, College of Marin, and West Hills College Lemoore. The four California community colleges are representative of Northern, Central, and Southern California student demographics.
How: Funding provided by the U.S. Department of Education Open Textbooks Pilot Program.
Project Goals
- Create peer-reviewed OER for twenty high-enrolled courses that have limited or no OER available.
- Promote textbook affordability, student success, and diversity, equity, and inclusion to benefit all students, particularly underserved students at HSIs.
- Provide professional development for integrating diversity, equity, and inclusion [DEI] in OER and curriculum in order to create culturally relevant OER.
- Share all processes, procedures, and training materials around OER development and DEI with national HSIs.
Completed Projects
Our Lives: An Ethnic Studies Primer
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- Word
- LibreTexts
- Spanish Translation (Word)
- Spanish Translation (PDF)
A People's History of Structural Racism in Academia From A(dministration of Justice) to Z(oology)
OpenStax American Government Audiobook
Canvas Companion Course for OpenStax American Government Audiobook
Sexuality, the Self, and Society
American Literature: Contextualizing and Comparing American Literature to this Modern Age [Canvas Course]
Hands-On Microbiology Lab Manual
Being Human: An Introduction to Western Culture
Elementary Spanish 1 / Mundo sin fronteras: Introducción a la lengua española
2D Design Studio Handbook (Word)
2D Design Studio Handbook (PDF)
Afrofuturism Across the African Diaspora: Empowering Black Students Through Literature (Textbook)
Afrofuturism Across the African Diaspora: Empowering Black Students Through Literature (Introduction)
California Geography (Word)
California Geography (PDF)
See completed training courses, webinars, and more on the resources page
Project Team
Project Director: Kelsey Smith
Allan Hancock College Lead: Jessica Scarffe
College of the Canyons Lead: James Glapa-Grossklag
College of Marin Lead: Elle Dimopoulos
Partners
The contents of these materials were developed under an Open Textbooks Pilot grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), U.S. Department of Education. However, those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.