Open Access Week is an international event whose goal is to highlight how open scholarship can help people meet their goals in research, scholarly publishing, teaching and learning. Each year, as part of Open Access Week, Open UBC showcases diverse events highlighting areas of open scholarship that UBC’s faculty, students and staff participate in as well as guests from local and global community. All events are free and open to all members of the higher education community.
This year, as part of the UBC Alt-Grading Symposium, we have two fantastic talks from internationally renown leaders.
Money in the (Test) Bank: AI, EdTech, and the Value of Grades
As an educator involved in shaping the field of open pedagogy, Robin DeRosa, has long been an advocate for alternative grading strategies. In her own classrooms, she has found that “ungrading” has positively impacted the quality of her students’ work and shifted class dynamics in ways that cultivated vitality and collaboration. Over time, this pedagogical shift led Robin to explore how the apparatus of assessment is connected to deeper political and economic forces that constrain our educational ecosystems. In this presentation, Robin will focus both on how her personal trajectory around grading has influenced her thinking about educational systems writ large, and also on how the current moment requires all educators to think critically and creatively about how our pedagogies can reflect, resist, and reshape the contexts within which we teach.
Speaker:
Robin DeRosa (https://robinderosa.net) is the Executive Director of the Open Education Network. Based at the University of Minnesota, the OEN is a collective of institutions and consortia that work collaboratively to make higher education more affordable, equitable, and engaging for learners. She has previously worked as a professor of literature and Interdisciplinary Studies, the founder and director of a faculty development center, and as the library director at a public university. She is the co-editor of Open at the Margins: Critical Perspectives on Open Education (2020).
Session Information:
- Date and Time: Thursday, October 22, 5:45pm – 7:15 pm
- Location: Irving K Barber Learning Centre, Victoria Learning Theatre 182; 1961 E Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6T 1Z1
- Registration: https://events.ctlt.ubc.ca/events/keynote-money-in-the-test-bank-ai-edtech-and-the-value-of-grades/
Lessons in Trust: Two Provocations and a Conversation
How can we rebuild and reclaim trust in the classroom and society at large? What is the role of alternative grading in the age of AI? What are the questions and issues that instructors, institutions, students, and staff have to confront in their classes and beyond? Prepare to be challenged and inspired. In this session, two of the most prominent and thoughtful advocates and theorists of alternative grading will give brief and provocative position papers, followed by a conversation about the state of the university and the place of alternative grading today, trading ideas and responding also to questions from the session moderator and the audience at large.
Speakers:
Moderator: Christina Hendricks, Professor of Teaching in Philosophy, UBC
Asao Inoue is Professor of Rhetoric and Composition in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at Arizona State University. His research focuses on antiracist and social justice theory and practices in writing assessments. He is the author of Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies: Teaching and Assessing for a Socially Just Future (2015), which won the 2017 NCTE/CCCC Outstanding Book Award for a monograph and the 2015 CWPA Outstanding Book Award, and of Labor-Based Grading Contracts: Building Equity and Inclusion in the Compassionate Writing Classroom (2019).
Jesse Stommel (https://www.jessestommel.com) is a faculty member in the Writing Program at the University of Denver. He is also co-founder of Hybrid Pedagogy: the journal of critical digital pedagogy and Digital Pedagogy Lab. He has a PhD from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is author of Undoing the Grade: Why We Grade, and How to Stop and co-author of An Urgency of Teachers: the Work of Critical Digital Pedagogy.
Session Information
- Date and Time: Friday, October 23, 6:45pm – 8:15 pm
- Location: Fletcher Challenge Theatre, Room 1900, Simon Fraser University; 1900 Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6B 5K3
- Registration: https://events.ctlt.ubc.ca/events/keynote-lessons-in-trust-two-provocations-and-a-conversation/
