Newly Released Remixed Open Textbooks through an Equity Lens

New Releases from ROTEL

We’re excited to showcase the latest textbooks from the Remixing Open Textbooks through an Equity Lens (ROTEL) Grant, an initiative of six Massachusetts Public Institutions of Higher Education along with the MA Department of Higher Education funded through the U.S. Department of Education. The mission of this project is to promote textbook affordability, student success, and inclusion, particularly for minoritized students. Rebus collaborated with ROTEL through the Textbook Success Program.

Heritages of Change: Curatorial Activism and First-Year Writing

This resource was created by Kisha Tracy and teams from the TSP July 2022 M-2 Cohort, facilitated by Amy Minervini, Joerdis Weilandt, and Apurva Ashok.

Heritages of Change: Curatorial Activism and First-Year Writing is an OER for students to think about the social changes that were prevalent during the COVID years and remain important in their wake. Heritages of Change is a lens for thinking and writing about these ideas. Through curation and exhibition as an act of activism, students focus on a specific audience with whom they can communicate authentically about this dynamic world.

Why Do I Have to Take This Course? A Guide to General Education

This resource was created by Kisha Tracy and teams from the TSP July 2022 M-2 Cohort, facilitated by Amy Minervini.

Why Do I Have to Take This Course? A Guide to General Education helps students think about why they take General Education courses and what significance they have, individually and as a program as a whole. It allows students the time to contemplate connections, the potential reasons for developing certain learning outcomes and skills, and the applications to other courses as well as their professional and personal lives. 

Statistics Through an Equity Lens

This resource was created by Yvonne Anthony and teams from the TSP July 2022 M-1 Cohort, facilitated by Amy Minervini, Joerdis Weilandt, and Apurva Ashok.

Statistics Through an Equity Lens carries a significant responsibility by presenting statistics through an equity lens. The book encourages further inspection of the ways in which data is collected, interpreted, and analyzed on a variety of social justice issues, such as health disparities, hunger and food insecurity, homelessness, behavioral health (mental health and substance use), and incarceration of males of color. It also attempts to reveal how the misuse of data can reinforce inequities, for example, by stigmatizing people and labeling neighborhoods as high poverty, violent, and having poor educational opportunities.

Shared Voices: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

This resource was created by Demetrios Brellas and Vanessa Martinez and teams from the TSP July 2022 M-2 Cohort, facilitated by Amy Minervini.

Shared Voices: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology is a student-centered cultural anthropology mini textbook built with an equity lens. This text aims to be accessible, interesting, accurate, and centered on marginalized voices. This text is a starting point for any introductory anthropology course recognizing that cultural change is constant and the familiar is cousin to the weird and unusual.