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Branch Alliance for Educator Diversity (BranchED) is the only non-profit organization in the country dedicated to strengthening, growing, and amplifying the impact of educator preparation at Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs), with the longer-range goals of both diversifying the teaching profession and intentionally addressing critical issues of educational equity for all students.

Our vision is for all students to have access to diverse, highly effective educators.

In November of 2019, we conducted focus groups with faculty and leadership of educator preparation programs at MSIs across the nation, and we learned that teacher educators at MSIs want Open Educational Resources (OER) that are not only high quality, collaborative, current, and practice-based, but that also center diverse perspectives and model OER use for teacher candidates to use in their own practice.

The BranchED OER Hub was developed for the purpose of curating and creating collaborative, quality instructional materials for teacher educators at MSIs by teacher educators at MSIs.

We would like to invite faculty in teacher preparation programs at MSIs across the United States to help build our collections!

Inside each collection folder is a keyword that begins with "branched-" . Type the keyword in the keyword field on the metadata page of the resource that you would like to save, and it will be saved inside that collection folder for easy access upon your next visit to the BranchED hub.

Equity-oriented OER webinars!

May 21, 2020, 9:49 a.m.

Hello, community!

Below is information for webinars that you might find relevant to the work of equity and OER.

Working towards Antiracism and Culturally Responsive Teaching in Open Education

Featuring William Cross, Kelly Hurst, Kristina Ishmael, Meredith Jacob, Peter Jaszi, Sabia Prescott, Lizeth Ramirez &Dalena Sanderson-Hunter

May 22, 2020 | 12 PM ET
Live webcast @ http://auw.cl/oer

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

UPCOMING WEBINARS
May 29, 12:00 PM ET: Music to Our Ears: A fair use deep dive into using music in OER - Register here

June 5, 12:00 PM ET: Using Open Licensing to Support LGBTQ-Inclusive Learning - Register here

(All webinars will be recorded and posted)

PREVIOUS WEBINARS
Recordings and slides for previous webinars are available here: auw.cl/oer
•           Reading Aloud: Fair Use Enables Translating Classroom Practices to Online Learning
•           Essential copyright knowledge: a toolkit for teachers and librarians
•           Educational fair use in the COVID-19 emergency: yes you can scan (and more) for colleges and universities
•           Finding teaching materials for Fall 2020 and beyond: evaluating resilient digital teaching and learning materials from open and commercial sources for K-12 teaching
•           Finding teaching materials for Fall 2020 and beyond: evaluating resilient digital teaching and learning materials from open and commercial sources for college and university teaching (including finding materials and evaluating licensing)
•           Creating teaching materials for Fall 2020 and beyond: authoring and adapting Open Educational Resources for K-12
•           Creating teaching materials for Fall 2020 and beyond: authoring and adapting Open Educational Resources for colleges and universities (strategies, systems, and sources for creating OER)
•           Universal Design - ensuring equitable access to education in the transition to online teaching and learning for students with disabilities and vulnerable students
•           Copyright in the U.S. and Canada compared - why taking advance of fair use for education doesn’t cause cross-border incompatibility