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 at jpeach@citytech.cuny.edu

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