Citation
Eversley, S., & Hurson, L. (2017). Equality Archive: Open Educational Resources as feminist praxis. Feminist Media Histories, 3(3), 154–158. https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2017.3.3.154
Abstract
The big ambition of Equality Archive is to digitally present multidimensional issues, people, and history relevant to feminist thought and action in the United States.1 As an Open Education Resource (OER), it blurs genre—analog and digital, scholarly and popular, theory and practice—to offer a free and reliable source of knowledge and activist opportunities for a generation trained to seek information via Google and YouTube. Equality Archive’s ongoing project is responsively built with open-source technology and adheres to the principles of fair use. Each entry is composed by a feminist professor, artist, or activist and originally peer reviewed by colleagues at the Feminist Press, now peer reviewed by its own collective of feminist specialists. The content created by Equality Archive contributors is licensed under Creative Commons, which allows authors and creators to retain some rights to their work while releasing the content to the public domain so that it can be shared and used. As an OER, Equality Archive serves as a teaching and learning resource in which curious people can get involved with social action groups relevant to their interests.
Themes: Descriptive, OER, Technology/Platform/Repository