This project brings together faculty and students from across departments and Faculties to co-create an interdisciplinary, open educational resource on sustainability and environmental ethics. The structure and open nature of this resource will allow faculty and students to contribute to and provide commentary on a collection of case studies through the lens of their respective academic disciplines. It will break down silos by encouraging professors and students to draw from additional disciplinary perspectives to those in their courses. We will hold a “sprint” to start the resource, but students and faculty will continue to add to it later. Graduate RAs will work with professors to incorporate the resource into their courses and evaluate its success, with emphasis on leveraging the resource's openness to create new, student-generated cases as well as disciplinary, research-based commentary on cases. With new contributions from students and faculty, the resource will evolve and expand over time.
Funding Details
Year 1: Project Title
Sustainability Case Studies: A Model for Interdisciplinary Learning and Showcasing of Student Work
Year 1: Project Year
Year 1
Year 1: Funding Year
2016/2017
Year 1: Project Type
Small TLEF
Year 1: Principal Investigator
Christina Hendricks
Year 1: Funded Amount
14,954
Year 1: Team Members
Christina Hendricks, Professor of Teaching, Philosophy, Faculty of Arts
Richard Price, Professor, Political Science, Faculty of Arts
Eduardo Jovel, Associate Professor, Faculty of Land and Food Systems
Jenna Omassi, VP Academic and University Affairs, AMS
Daniel Munro, Associate VP Academic and University Affairs, AMS
Year 1: TLEF Showcase
Year 2: Project Year
Year 2
Year 2: Funding Year
2018/2019
Year 2: Project Type
Small TLEF
Year 2: Principal Investigator
Christina Hendricks
Year 2: Funded Amount
4,410
Year 2: Team Members
Christina Hendricks, Professor of Teaching, Philosophy, Faculty of Arts / Associate Academic Director, Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology
Richard Price, Professor, Political Science, Faculty of Arts
Janette Bulkan, Assistant Professor, Forest Resources Management, Faculty of Forestry
Deb Chen, Educational Developer, Teaching and Learning PD, Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology
Dissemination: Presentations & workshops in which the project is discussed
Webinar about the Open Case Studies Project hosted by BCcampus, as part of their series on open education in BC. February 2017. Video and slides from this presentation.
Panelist, “The Failure of Access: Rethinking Open Education,” UBC-SFU event for Open Education Week, March 28, 2017. Slides and video from this event.
Co-presenter, with Michael Dabrowski, Marianne Gianocopoulos and Jennifer Mansour, “Open Pedagogy Case Studies and Examples from Langara, UBC, Athabasca.” BCcampus Open Textbook Summit, May 2017. Slides from this presentation.
Keynote speaker, “Students and Open Education: From the What to the How and Why (and When Not).” eCampus Ontario Technology Enhanced Seminar and Showcase, Toronto, Ontario, November 20, 2017. Slides from this talk can be found on Christina Hendricks' blog.
Facilitated a two-day workshop on Open Educational Practices at Davidson College, May 29-30, 2018. I created a website with many resources for this workshop, including slides, a bibliography, worksheets, and more.
Keynote speaker, “Open Educational Practices: What, Why and How.” Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, February 21, 2019. Invited to speak as part of their Open Education Week activities. Slides from this talk can be found on Slideshare.
