Category: Open Educational Resources

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Open Education Week: March 7 – 11, 2016

Join us Thursday, March 10th from 12:45 – 2:15

Atrium, 1st Floor – across from the Welcome Center

CANDY, FACT CHECKING KANYE WEST, CONTESTS & MORE!

OpenEdWkWhy does Open Education Matter? How do textbook costs impact you?
The Library invites the college community to celebrate this international event to spread awareness about free and open educational resources.
Knowledge sharing is a fundamental principle of education at its core and open educational resources (OERs) can be powerful tools to advance knowledge access; they are free to share, modify, and customize.  We’re excited about this chance to talk to students and the college community about such an important topic. Please stop by to share your experiences, pick up information on how to get involved, and learn about current Library and faculty open education initiatives.
 
 
 

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Faculty Workshop on Open Educational Resources

Wednesday, March 9th, 2:30-3:30 PM, Rm A441 in the Library
Beyond the Textbook: Reach students with Open Educational Resources (OER)
RSVP to: ccooney@citytech.cuny.edu
OER make it easier for students to access course materials, and provide more options for instructors to integrate dynamic, tailored course materials into their pedagogy.
At the workshop – We’ll cover the meaning of the term OER, the differences between open and free course materials, introduce resources to help you find high quality content in your discipline, and review attribution and licensing of OER.
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Many students at City Tech experience challenges connecting to required textbooks in there courses. They have problems accessing the books because they are simply too expensive to afford. Even when students have access to the material, instructors often encounter challenges with getting their students to read the text. OER are free course materials that are licensed such that they can be adopted and reworked to your individualized course curriculum. OER include a variety of course materials including traditional print and beyond…simulations, images, videos, etc. While many of us already use free and open content in our teaching, this workshop will introduce you to ever more expanding collections and repositories of peer reviewed course content.
To learn more about the Library’s OER Initiative and OER in general please visit our Initiative site and our OER guide.

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Faculty Fellowship to adopt Open Educational Resources

The Ursula C. Schwerin Library is pleased to announce its call for applicants to the Spring 2016 Open Educational Resources (OER) Fellowship.

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Interested faculty, please review the program information and guidelines and download an application.
Submission deadline: Thursday, November 12th.
Send application materials to Prof. Cailean Cooney at ccooney@citytech.cuny.edu.
About the OER Initiative and Fellowship:
Last Spring, the Library piloted an OER Initiative in response to growing concerns over textbook costs.
Open educational resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials shared under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others. Faculty who participate in the OER fellowship will select from open course content and library resources to curate an individualized course resource to replace the conventional textbook as the only required material in a Fall 2016 course. The objective of the initiative is to provide students with free access to course materials and continue propagating student and faculty engagement through dynamic pedagogy. The initiative encourages adoption of the OER in additional course sections in subsequent semesters. OER fellows will attend workshops during the spring 2016 semester, complete the OER in June, implement, and promote the OER in Fall 2016, and submit a brief written assessment the following January.
Our first cohort of OER Fellows are currently using the OER in their courses, and have saved students close to $11,000 so far. We are expanding upon the success of the initial pilot and increasing our cohort from 3 to 10 Fellows, and very much look forward to a dynamic group of City Tech faculty to join the Fellowship program next spring!
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Faculty Workshop on Open Educational Resources

Thursday, Nov. 5th, 2:30-3:30 PM, Rm A441 in the Library
The Basics of Open Educational Resources (OER): A Faculty Workshop
RSVP to: ccooney@citytech.cuny.edu
OER make it easier for students to access course materials, and provide more options for instructors to integrate dynamic, tailored course materials into their pedagogy.
The workshop – First we’ll cover the meaning of the term OER, the differences between open and free course materials, introduce resources to help you find high quality content in your discipline, and review attribution and licensing of OER.
OERWorkshop 11.5.15 webMany students at City Tech experience challenges connecting to required textbooks in there courses. They have problems accessing the books because they are simply too expensive for everyone to afford. Even when students have access to the material, instructors often encounter challenges with getting their students to read the text. OER are free course materials that are licensed such that they can be adopted and reworked to your individualized course curriculum. OER include a variety of course materials including traditional print and beyond…simulations, images, videos, etc. While many of us already use free and open content in our teaching, this workshop will introduce you to ever more expanding collections and repositories of peer reviewed course content.
To learn more about the Library’s OER Initiative and OER in general please visit our Initiative site and our OER guide.

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Attend a Faculty panel on Open Educational Resources

Wed. October 14th, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m., Namm 227 (Faculty Commons)
RSVP to: ccooney@citytech.cuny.edu
FC_library_OER_Fall2015_F_P_1Join a City Tech faculty panel discussion about integrating open educational resources (OER) into the classroom.
Featured panelists:
Prof. Amanda Almond, Psychology
Prof. Raffi Khatchadourian, Computer Systems Techonology
Prof. Jeremy Seto, Biology
Moderator: Prof. Cailean Cooney, Library
As the Fall semester progresses, the Library will offer an OER workshop, and will solicit applicants to participate in the Spring cycle of our Open Educational Resources Initiative, founded last year in response to growing concern over textbook costs, the program will fund 10 faculty to select no-cost open/alternative course materials to replace textbooks.
Want to learn more about OER now? Browse the Library’s new OER guide!

 
Panel co-sponsored by City Tech Library and the Faculty Commons as part of the college’s Open Access Month programming!
 

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