Open pedagogies and resources are enabling faculty to reduce barriers to learning by opening their classrooms, developing new educational resources, and contributing their efforts to public knowledge. When an instructor creates open educational resources or opens their educational practices, they are, in effect, publishing their teaching. Tenure and promotion committees are starting to recognize these efforts and, since 2016, the UBC Senior Appointments Committee (SAC) Guide to Reappointment, Promotion and Tenure Procedures at UBC (pdf) included contributions to open educational resources and repositories as a possible criteria for evidence of educational leadership for those instructors in UBC’s educational leadership stream.
In this recorded round table discussion, UBC faculty members and open education leaders discussed their experiences, including challenges and successes, in representing their open education work for tenure and promotion. Learn how these instructors are documenting, measuring impact, and promoting their open educational efforts.
Members of the panel included:
- Christina Hendricks, Moderator, Professor of Teaching, Philosophy; Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President, Teaching and Learning, pro tem
- Elisa Baniassad, Professor of Teaching, Computer Science; Acting Academic Director, CTLT
- Amanda Coolidge, Executive Director, BCcampus
- Agnes d’Entremount, Associate Professor of Teaching, Mechanical Engineering
- Jonathan Ichikawa, Professor and Department Head, Philosophy
- Maja Krzic, Associate Professor, Applied Biology; Forest and Conservation Sciences
- Georg Rieger, Associate Professor of Teaching, Physics & Astronomy; Vantage College
