Time is a limited resource and the uptake of open scholarship in academia is dependent on recognition of the efforts invested in it. Open Education in Promotion, Tenure, and Faculty Development was produced through the Iowa OER project to help faculty present their work with open educational resources in ways that will be recognized for promotion and tenure (P&T). P&T criteria generally include assessment of teaching, research and service. This resource provides a rubric of OER activities and the evidence that matches the P&T criterion. It also outlines a rationale and strategy for gaining recognition of OER work in P&T requirements, advocacy that has been well done by the UMass Amherst Libraries OER Team. In fact the UMass Amherst Provost Annual Promotion and Tenure Memo is cited as one of three policies that addresses OERs for P&T. The rubric presented in this paper can help faculty make their cases.
