Open Voices, Just Choices Speaker Series
Meggie Mapes: Access, Equity, and Empowerment
Access, Equity, and Empowerment: The Critical and Practical Case for Open Education Resources
Building on her experience creating, “Speak Out, Call In: Public Speaking as Advocacy,” Mapes shared how open educational resources (OER) can aid faculty to integrate social justice principles into high-enrollment courses and empower students to enact change in their daily lives.
About the Speaker
Meggie Mapes (she/her/hers; Ph.D. Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2016) is an introductory course director and associate teaching professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Kansas. Her research explores feminist rhetoric and critical/cultural studies, with a particular focus on prison abolition. As an award winning author and speaker, her work can be found in Women’s Studies in Communication, Journal of Feminist Scholarship, and Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, to name a few. She is also an open access and open education advocate and authored “Speak Out, Call In: Public Speaking as Advocacy.” Mapes loves to bake and lives in Kansas City with her partner and two dogs – a rottweiler and a sharpei.
Speak Out, Call In: Public Speaking as Advocacy
The Public Speaking Open Pedagogy Project
Recording, Transcript, and Slide deck
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Links Shared
Example of creating test banks with students, Rajiv Jhangiani
An Ecological Approach to Obesity and Eating Disorders
Open Education Network’s Open Pedagogy Portal
Orozco, C.M. “Informed Open Pedagogy and Information Literacy Instruction in Student-Authored Open Projects,” in Open Pedagogy Approaches, eds. A. Clifton and K. Davies Hoffman.
Mapes, M. (2024). Access, Equity, and Empowerment: The Critical and Practical Case for Open Education Resources, in Open Voices, Just Choices: OER for Social Justice Faculty Handbook. CC BY 4.0.
