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Call for Applicants: January 2025 Open Educational Practices Institute for Part-Time Faculty

The OER Team at City Tech Library is seeking applications for the January Open Educational Practices Institute for Part-Time Faculty. (Chairs and full-time faculty, please recommend to your part-time colleagues!) The Institute provides asynchronous and synchronous virtual training on using free and openly-licensed materials for courses and foregrounding student-centered pedagogical approaches.

More specifically, participants will learn and discuss:

How to identify OER and other free and open resources
How copyright, open licensing, and fair use works in the context of course materials
How to make your course materials more accessible
How to bring student-centered pedagogy into your open educational practices

As a culmination to the intensive, participants will redesign a class activity or assignment using free and open resources that incorporate student-centered pedagogical principles. To qualify as a zero-cost OER, faculty can select course materials that are:

Open educational resources that are Creative Commons (openly) licensed, including, but not limited to, open textbooks
Public domain materials
Freely available web resources that do not violate copyright
Library-licensed digital resources, including articles and eBooks

Eligibility

Part-time faculty members at City Tech in any discipline with an active appointment are eligible to apply.

Faculty commitments/compensation

Participants will be compensated with a $1200 stipend for a commitment of 20 hours of project work, including asynchronous work and synchronous virtual training sessions. Participants will need to be available to attend all four synchronous sessions to receive the stipend. The final project must be completed by Friday, February 14, 2025.

Institute Dates

Thursday, January 9th, 2025, 10am-12pm
Tuesday, January 14th, 2025, 10am-12pm
Thursday, January 16th, 2025, 10am-12pm
Tuesday, January 21st, 2025, 10am-12pm

Please fill out the OEP Institute application by November 25, 2024. If you have questions about the Institute or application process, please contact Joshua Peach, OER Librarian

March 11, 2014

Faculty/Staff Workshop: Research Beyond the City Tech Library

The City Tech Library, in partnership with the Faculty Commons, is pleased to invite all faculty and staff to a workshop. You may be familiar with interlibrary loan for resources not available here at City Tech, but did you know that we participate in consortia that permit access to research libraries around New York City? Participants will also learn how to make the most of browser add-ons and other online tools to help identify, locate, and connect with resources from other libraries.
Our workshop will be held on Wednesday, March 19, 1:00-2:00pm in Rm. A441, Library (Atrium, 4th Floor). RSVP to Prof. Monica Berger at mberger@citytech.cuny.edu or Prof. Anne Leonard at aleonard@citytech.cuny.edu.
Visit our website for our full schedule of faculty and staff workshops
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March 10, 2014

Tech Happy Hour Presentation and Handout

We had a great turnout at our Tech Happy Hour on Tools for Your Tablet a couple of weeks ago, and are delighted to share the slides and handout from the program.

Interested in more faculty and staff workshops at the library? Check out our schedule of workshops for this semester, or consider requesting a workshop for your department or group.
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February 27, 2014

Faculty/Staff Workshop: Getting Started with Instructional Web Design

The City Tech Library, in partnership with the Faculty Commons, is pleased to invite all faculty and staff to a workshop. Learn to design web pages for instructional use, including layout and navigation, color and graphics, and developing effective content. We will look at beginner HTML, the basics of creating and posting on WordPress-based sites, and other online alternatives.
Our workshop will be held on Wednesday March 5, 1:00-2:00pm in Rm. A441, Library, Atrium 4th Fl. RSVP to Prof. Junior Tidal at jtidal@citytech.cuny.edu.
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February 24, 2014

Tech Happy Hour: Tools For Your Tablet

The City Tech Library, in partnership with the Faculty Commons, is pleased to invite all faculty and staff to a workshop. Do you have a tablet computer, either an iPad or Android device? Curious about how you can use it for more than watching movies or playing games? Join your colleagues for wine and cheese at this library workshop and learn about apps and strategies you can use to supercharge your tablet for your research, teaching, and productivity.
Our workshop will be held on Thursday February 27, 5:00-6:30pm in Rm. A632, Faculty Lounge, Atrium 6th Fl. RSVP to Prof. Maura Smale at msmale@citytech.cuny.edu.
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February 13, 2014

Faculty/Staff Workshop: Copyright/Fair Use in Digital Teaching

The City Tech Library, in partnership with the Faculty Commons, is pleased to invite all faculty and staff to a workshop. Do you know how copyright and fair use applies to web-based teaching? Are you interested in making material available to students online? Learn about the tools and guidelines available for your use.
Our workshop will be held on Wednesday February 19, 1-2pm in Rm. A441 in the Library, Atrium 4th Fl. RSVP to Prof. Bronwen Densmore at bdensmore@citytech.cuny.edu.
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November 7, 2013

Faculty/Staff Workshop: Using Photoshop to Create Graphics for Instruction

The City Tech Library, in partnership with the Faculty Commons, is pleased to invite all faculty and staff to a library workshop. Are you interested in creating graphics for your class or resizing your digital photographs? Learn how to use Photoshop, including the toolbar, layers, cropping, image filters, text, special effects, and more.
Our workshop will be held on Wednesday November 13, 1-2pm in Rm. A441 in the Library, Atrium 4th Fl. RSVP to Prof. Junior Tidal at jtidal@citytech.cuny.edu.

October 30, 2013

Faculty/Staff Workshop: Finding Scholarly Information with Google Scholar

The City Tech Library, in partnership with the Faculty Commons, is pleased to invite all faculty and staff to a library workshop. Explore the resources found in Google Scholar (conference papers, preprints, journal articles, etc.). We’ll also customize Scholar preferences to facilitate full-text access from home or office computers.
Our workshop will be held on Wednesday November 6, 1-2pm in Rm. A441 in the Library, Atrium 4th Fl. RSVP to Prof. Monica Berger at mberger@citytech.cuny.edu.
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October 16, 2013

Faculty/Staff Workshop: Open Access For the Arts

Come enjoy wine & cheese with your colleagues at our Open Access Happy Hour!
Using or producing creative works online requires artists and scholars to work with a nuanced (and
complicated) copyright, license, and use guidelines. Find out ways to use public domain
and open access resources in your creative work, and how to protect the rights of artists
in online environments.
Our workshop will be held on Thursday October 24, 4:00-5:30pm in the Faculty Lounge, Atrium 632. RSVP to Prof. Bronwen Densmore at bdensmore@citytech.cuny.edu.
This workshop is being offered as a part of Open Access Week (October 21-27). For more information about open access publishing visit http://openaccess.commons.gc.cuny.edu/.
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October 15, 2013

Faculty/Staff Workshop: What Are the Problems with Textbooks?

Why do students sometimes resist buying and reading textbooks? How is the landscape of textbook publishing changing, and how can we take advantage of new strategies and platforms to ensure that our students have access to high quality curricular materials? Come to this Open Access Week workshop to learn more about open educational resources! You’ll hear from faculty across the college who use these materials in their courses, and learn more about library resources and support for open educational materials.
Our workshop will be held on Wednesday October 23, 1-2pm in the Faculty Commons, Namm 227. RSVP to Prof. Maura Smale at msmale@citytech.cuny.edu.
This workshop is being offered as a part of Open Access Week (October 21-27). For more information about open access publishing visit http://openaccess.commons.gc.cuny.edu/.
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