Foundations and Futures: Imagining Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies in Every Home

Abstract:This article describes an effort to create an open-access, scholar-informed, teacher-tested online multimedia textbook for teachers, students, and lifelong learners in anticipation of a growing demand to learn about Asian American and Pacific Islanders. Informed by over fifty years of ethnic studies and urgent demands for open access educational resources, the development of an online multimedia textbook on Asian American and Pacific Islander experiences, entitled Foundations and Futures, represents a nationwide collaboration of scholars and teachers spearheaded by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center. The Vietnamese American chapter provides an example of collaboration between scholars, K–12 teachers, curriculum and media experts, designers and technologists.