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Faculty Recognition within Open

In this episode of Open-Ed Mic, the hosts speak with Andrew McKinney (CUNY) about open education, tenure promotion, and the challenges faced by faculty in higher education. McKinney shares insights from the DOERS community’s work documenting how faculty across institutions are integrating OER and open pedagogy into tenure portfolios. The conversation explores the cultural and structural barriers faculty face, the importance of grassroots departmental change, and the broader potential of open education to transform teaching and empower students as knowledge creators. The episode also reflects on emerging trends like AI and the long-term role of teaching in the mission of public higher education.

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Open Ed, Open Ped and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 

In this episode of Open Ed Mic, guest Shinta Hernandez—Dean of MC Online and Academic Support at Montgomery College and OE Global’s Individual Leader of the Year—shares her journey into open education and her commitment to equity, affordability, and student empowerment.

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Making the Case for Open Education: Community and Policy

Dr. Jonathan Lashley joins the hosts of Open-Ed Mic to share how open education, community collaboration, and emerging AI technologies are transforming access, innovation, and equity in learning.

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Making the Case for Open Education: Responsiveness

In this episode of OpenEd Mic, Liliana Diaz shares her journey with open educational resources (OER). We explore how OER has grown from a cost-saving strategy to a driver of student success, the role of course markings and data, and why educators remain committed to open education.

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Episode 192: Futures Thinking and Digital Higher Ed

Higher ed futurist Dr. Bryan Alexander guests alongside hosts Kelvin and Tom to reflect on the recent past and near-term possible futures of digital higher education.

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Episode 157: Pending Changes to Inclusive Access Programs

In this episode, hosts Tom and Kelvin summarize the current issues surrounding proposed changes to “inclusive access programs” for digital instructional materials and how this affects the affordability work of digital education professionals.

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Episode 82: Fostering Large Scale OER Adoption

In this episode, Dr. Tanya Spilovoy joins hosts Tom and Kelvin to discuss the importance of faculty adoption of free or low-cost open educational resources (OER) at scale. This is an important part of lowering educational costs for students. Fostering widespread adoption initiatives is harder than it looks.

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Episode 51: How Can We Make Textbooks More Affordable for Students?

About Episode 51: Textbook affordability is important to students, parents, policymakers, and online education professionals. Reducing the functional cost to students of course materials is a complex challenge. In this episode, hosts Tom and Kelvin discuss one multifaceted strategy for meeting this challenge. Podcast Recording Download Transcript: [PDF] Episode 51 Show Notes: Episode Synopsis via …

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Episode 39: Introducing the Teaching Online Preparation Toolkit

Preparing faculty to successfully teach online can be challenging and lonely work, especially if you are a part of a small team of instructional designers. In this episode, hosts Kelvin and Tom unveil a set of free, open-licensed resources designed to make online faculty development easier and less lonely.

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Episode 11: Getting to the Goal of Going Textbook Free

About Episode 11: Join hosts Kelvin Thompson and Thomas Cavanagh as they discuss making higher ed more affordable for students with their guest Dr. Karen Vignare. (Second episode in an occasional mini-series on “the iron triangle” of cost, access, and quality.) Download Transcript [PDF, RTF] Episode 11 Show Notes: Please find various show notes and …

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