Description: The open education movement emerged over 20 years ago, and has offered a low-cost, values-driven approach to teaching, learning, and research. Looking to the future, in order to ensure its momentum and sustainability, expanding this success will require much closer attention to faculty recognition. Creating, adopting, adapting Open Educational Resources, or designing and implementing assignments which support open pedagogy, takes time and effort, effort that is not always seen as worthwhile, often flies under the radar, and is not always formally recognized.

Through this interactive session, we will discuss our approach to identifying ways to center faculty work, followed by what this looks like in practice. Attendees will gain an understanding of the importance of faculty recognition in sustaining open education work, as well as recommendations for adopting similar methods in their own context. 

Presenters: 

David Tully is the Principal Librarian for Student Affordability at NC State University Libraries. His work centers on advancing student success by reducing the financial barriers to higher education. David leads initiatives in open education, manages student scholarship programs, and collaborates with faculty and donors to develop sustainable, student-centered solutions.

Katya E. Mueller is a Libraries Fellow (2024-2027) at North Carolina State University Libraries. Through the Open Knowledge Center, she takes part in supporting the Libraries’ open education initiatives. She also works within the Libraries’ Research Facilitation Service, where she is currently conducting a study on data management plan (DMP) review services in academic libraries.

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