Welcome

Hello and welcome to the OER workshop. Over the course of 2 weeks, you will learn about freely available academic materials that will reduce the cost of education for your students. This workshop is for faculty who plan to convert their course, make a brand-new course, or adopt an existing OER course.

In a series of modular units, you will learn about Fair Use and Copyright, Creative Commons Licensing, Finding OER Materials, Developing and Delivering your OER courses, the principles of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Backward Design, and Accessibility.

You will read the materials and engage in online discussion forums. Even though the workshop is delivered fully online in an asynchronous manner, you will be able to schedule a live Zoom meeting with an OER Fellow who will support you through the process of building your OER course.

Below you will find the syllabus, the workshop activities schedule, and technical tips. After reviewing this information, you are ready to begin reading the materials in the module section. At the end of each module, there are discussion forum assignments that can be accessed by clicking the Go To Assignment button or by selecting Assignments from the workshop menu at the top of the page.

We are looking forward to working with you!

Description & Objectives

This workshop is an intensive professional development program to advance open education at the City College of New York (CCNY). The workshop content, composed of 9 modules, covers topics essential to understand and develop open educational resources, information about participating in the program, and resources available to you as a CCNY faculty member.

After completing the workshop, you will:

• Acquire knowledge and experience using OER in your teaching practice
• Be ready to develop your course as OER or Zero Textbook Cost
• Become conversant about issues relating to open education
• Assume the role of campus advocate, promoting OER to and discussing OER with your colleagues

Requirements

This is a 2-week asynchronous online course and participants are expected to spend 6-10 hours to complete the 9 modules in its entirety. The CCNY OER Workshop will be the home of all course content, assignments, and communications.

This workshop is a conversation. We will think about issues relating to OER together, hearing your concerns and learning how best to support you. Therefore, it is essential that you complete the assignment and participate in the discussion in a timely manner.

Commonly Used OER Terms

Download OER Glossary.

Online Course Schedule

Download Fillable Checklist (Word Doc) or Printable Checklist (PDF)



Required Synchronous Meetings:

• Tuesday, January 9, 4PM ET
• Tuesday, January 16, 4PM ET

Technical Recommendations

For the platform you use to access this online course, we did our best to build this workshop online with the time we have, which is to say that it is not as good as we would like it to be. We are not able, for example, to optimize the content for mobile devices. Therefore, it is recommended that you work on a computer.

Additionally, several of the modules include YouTube videos. If you would like to learn how to toggle closed captioning and change the speed on these videos, reference the clips below.

Facilitators

Julia Brown
OER Fellow
The City College of New York

Janelle Poe
OER Fellow
The City College of New York