The Grove of Giants: Open Voices, Just Choices Speaker Series
Access, Equity, and Empowerment
Meggie Mapes
Access, Equity, and Empowerment: The Critical and Practical Case for Open Educational Resources
Building on her experience creating Speak Out, Call In: Public Speaking as Advocacy [website], Dr. 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.
Examples of Dr. Mapes’s Work
- Speak Out, Call In: Public Speaking as Advocacy by Meggie Mapes is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/845
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The Public Speaking Open Pedagogy Project by Brandon Boyce, Rebeca Russi Daolio, Meggie Mapes, Mackenzie Marquess, Carter Reed, Kate Swartz, Darrion Walker is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. https://manifold.open.umn.edu/projects/the-public-speaking-open-pedagogy-project
- Learn more about Dr. Mapes [website]
Recording, Transcript, and Slide deck
Access, Equity, and Empowerment: The Critical and Practical Case for Open Educational Resources by LMU Library
Resources
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Center for Academic Innovation. (2026). Teach-Outs. https://ai.umich.edu/our-work/teach-outs/
Why have students answer questions when they can write them? by Rajiv Jhangiani, Open Pedagogy Notebook, is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
The Open Pedagogy Portal by the Open Education Network is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Informed Open Pedagogy and Information Literacy Instruction in Student-Authored Open Projects by Cynthia Mari Orozco, Open Pedagogy Approaches edited by A. Clifton and K. Davies Hoffman, is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
An Ecological Approach to Obesity and Eating Disorders by Becky Tugman is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.
