About me
Lori-Beth Larsen is a doctoral candidate in Education at Winona State University. Her research focuses on critical pedagogy, open education, and the question of what teaching is actually for. Her dissertation, Critical Open Educational Practices, is a qualitative case study exploring how educators within the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system redesign their courses to be more inclusive, transparent, and learner-centered. As the OEP Lead Faculty at Central Lakes College, she has spent years teaching and facilitating communities of practice focused on OER adoption, course redesign, and equity-centered teaching, and she brings that practitioner perspective into everything she researches. Her work is informed by Freire, hooks, and Ladson-Billings, and by the educators who gathered across five Friday workshops to think out loud and reflect on and redesign their teaching. She is committed to advancing Critical OEPs as a framework that moves beyond resource sharing toward genuine pedagogical transformation.
