Engaging students in assignment and course content creation, as well as peer-to-peer course assessments, elevates historically marginalized voices and perspectives while supporting diverse ways of learning and demonstrating knowledge. 

Renewable assignments include tasks where students design curriculum and openly publish their work so the assignment outcome is inherently meaningful to them and valuable to the disciplinary community.  

Faculty involve students in content creation by designing opportunities for students to create course materials that foster ownership of learning.  

Faculty design assessments that allow for students to authentically participate in demonstration of their knowledge of course content that includes multiple culturally responsive ways of assessing students’ learning.  

Creating space for students to share their work and help shape course content demonstrates that their perspectives have inherent value and provides them an opportunity to express their unique understanding of what they are learning. 

Scaffold assignments and guide students to edit or add to an open resource website, write a textbook chapter, create short videos related to discipline-based concepts, and develop test bank questions.

Co-develop an artifact or asset for a community organization, co-author a chapter or project report, add a case study to an OER textbook, or research a topic and add findings to an OER website. 

Implement innovative assessments and encourage students to demonstrate learning by creating blogs or translating Wikipedia articles into the language they are studying or their native language and aligning learning goals to community needs.