The Library seeks applicants for the Fall 2018 Open Educational Resources (OER) Fellowship. Full-time and part-time faculty are eligible to apply with their chair’s approval.
Participants will curate a zero-cost OER to replace the existing course material in a course to be taught next Spring. In order to be considered zero-cost OER, the course section you teach must assign freely available web resources and openly licensed materials; inclusion of library licensed digital resources is also recommended.
Program Information:
Faculty accepted to the fellowship will participate in a series of 4 seminars on Fridays this fall (see dates below), complete the OER in January, and pilot the OER as the only required course material in their spring 2019 course.
Seminars will cover:
- An introduction to open educational resources
- Copyright, fair use, and Creative Commons licensing
- Searching and selecting OER and zero-cost course materials
- Creating an OpenLab site
- Strategies to organize course materials for accessibility
Requirements:
- Participation in each of the following two hour professional development programs:
- 10 a.m – 12 p.m. Friday, September 28
- 10 a.m – 12 p.m. Friday, October 5
- 10 a.m – 12 p.m. Friday, October 19
- Additional Friday working session in November, TBA
- Curate OER and post on a public OpenLab site – due no later than January 9, 2019
- Teach with the OER in at least 1 course section in Spring 2019 semester
- Submit a brief written assessment of the experience in May 2019
- Submit your course outline and / or syllabus to Academic Works, CUNY’s institutional repository
Payment:
Faculty will be compensated at or above $1,300 for full participation in the OER Fellowship.
Apply:
Review program guidelines and submit your application online at https://LibGuides.citytech.cuny.edu/OER/program – due Tuesday, September 4th.*
*Before submitting an application, please consult with your Department Chair (and a course coordinator, if applicable) for approval to 1) develop an OER for the course you propose; 2) teach with the OER in Spring 2019.
