Overview
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Resources from ASCCC Plenary, November 2021.
To support faculty as they implement a culturally responsive and anti-racist pedagogy, the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges Open Educational Resources Initiative (ASCCC OERI), in response to Resolution 09.05 adopted in Spring 2021 (Developing an Anti-Racism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Curriculum Audit Process), has been tasked with the development of:
- a process and review framework to evaluate existing open educational resources to ensure that ASCCC OERI-supported open educational resources are inclusive, diverse, equitable, and anti-racist (IDEA).
- a curriculum audit process and review framework to assess instructional materials for equity, inclusiveness, diversity, and anti- racism and make the process and framework available for local consideration, modification, and implementation.
Current Version of the ASCCC OERI IDEA Framework
IDEA Framework Summer 2026 Assessor Training Program
The ASCCC Open Educational Resources Initiative (OERI) is excited to invite California community college faculty to a summer professional development opportunity centered on creating more inclusive, accessible, and equity-minded course materials. Participants will learn to remix Open Educational Resources (OER) using the IDEA Framework, which is a powerful tool designed to evaluate and improve resources through the lenses of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-racism. Participants will also be prepared to serve as IDEA Framework Assessors, joining a growing network of faculty leaders supporting peers across the state.
Participants can choose from two assessment options:
- Expert Assessment: Submit OER you’ve authored or adopted to be reviewed by trained IDEA Framework Assessors.
- Collaborative Assessment: Join a guided IDEA Framework assessment of materials you’ve authored or adopted, working alongside a community of fellow OER adopters.
The insights gained through either option will inform the remixing of new or revised OER materials, ensuring they are inclusive, diverse, equity-minded, and anti-racist. Learn more about the IDEA Framework Summer 2026 Assessment Program.
IDEA Framework Canvas Page
The purpose of the IDEA Framework Canvas page is to serve as a resource for faculty who are interested in or using the IDEA Framework to assess open educational resources.
Enroll in the IDEA Framework Canvas course.
IDEA Framework AI Crosswalk Instructions
This instructional guide helps faculty ‘crosswalk’ an OER using gen-AI against the IDEA Framework to identify its strengths and weaknesses in diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, while maintaining the discipline expert as the forefront of the process and in complete control of how much (or how little gen-AI is used in the assessment process.
The gen-AI Crosswalk supports faculty in making informed choices when selecting OER and offers an opportunity to invest in two of the 5R’s of OER—Revising and Remixing—where appropriate in a manner that also values faculty time and commitment to substantial review process.
This guide provides concrete prompt templates that faculty can use with gen-AI to complete an IDEA Framework crosswalk in an ethical manner. The prompts were created, vetted, and tested to improve efficiency, provide accurate and consistent output independent of the gen-AI used, avoid bias through “links to include” resources and structured chain of thought, and reduce environmental impact by creating one-shot prompting to reduce chatbot loop.
Accessibility
The IDEA Framework does not explicitly address accessibility as accessibility is a required component of all of the OERI’s work. In addition, the OERI promotes the incorporation of Universal Design for Learning principles as a matter of practice. This will be incorporated into the next iteration of the framework. In addition, we will take steps to ensure that all forms of diversity are referenced, as appropriate, throughout the document.
Archived IDEA-Focused Webinars
Past Work to Develop the Framework
Previous Versions of the Framework
Previous Recruitments
Summer 2022 IDEA Framework Workgroup
Summer 2021 IDEA Framework Workgroup
In the interest of addressing this resolution in a timely manner, the ASCCC OERI formed a workgroup in the summer of 2021 to develop a draft process that could inform new OER projects and, potentially, be piloted in the near future.
During its first meeting, the workgroup acknowledged that the proposed audit would likely be one of many IDEA-related resources the ASCCC might pursue. Companion resources would likely include an IDEA framework for discipline texts, syllabi, student projects and assignments, and teaching practices. Additionally, the workgroup concluded that the framework must be dynamic and, as such, recommended that an iterative process for review and improvement also be developed.
The audit process or framework outlined here is intended to be applicable to all disciplines and accessible to all faculty. While the ultimate goal is to facilitate an in-depth and comprehensive analysis of resources, elements that are more superficial in nature have been included to provide explicit approaches to improving resources. The ASCCC OERI hopes that this tool will encourage faculty to not only address issues of inequity in academia but also promote a transformative reconsideration of how we know what we know and how education has been shaped by those who have been historically recognized as the experts.
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