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12/9 – Depositing your OER to CUNY Academic Works workshop

November 20, 2025 / / 0 Comments
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Out of the Classroom and into the Open: Depositing Your OER to CUNY Academic Works

Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2025 

Time: 2–3pm 

Now that the end of the year is approaching and our faculty have had the chance to test out their OER in the classroom, it’s the perfect time to deposit these materials to CUNY Academic Works and ensure their impact beyond the semester. By disseminating OER via Academic Works, we enable teachers and students to use, reuse, adapt, remix, and redistribute these materials. Sharing is an essential step in the process of OER creation and allows these materials to reach their fullest pedagogical potential.


This hands-on workshop will guide you through the practical steps involved in submitting OER to Academic Works. We’ll discuss how components like Creative Commons licenses and funding statements apply to OERs and where all this information should go in the submission form. We’ll also explore the benefits of sharing OER via Academic Works and touch on other open platforms at CUNY. By the end of this hour-long workshop, you will have learned how to deposit OER to Academic Works and why it’s important.

Please consider attending if you are . . . 

  • A campus OER representative or CUNY Academic Works administrator 
  • A faculty member or instructor who has created an OER or is interested in learning more about these materials

Those who plan to attend should create an account in CUNY Academic Works prior to the workshop. Participants who would like to submit their work in real time are encouraged to have an OER ready so that we can go through the submission process together. Please note that it is not necessary to have created an OER to attend this workshop.

Openly licensed workshop materials and a recording of the presentation will be made available to all who register for the event. 

Register for the workshop through this Zoom meeting link

Please feel free to contact Jahanara Alamgir, Scholarly Communications Adjunct at the CUNY Office of Library Services, at jahanara.alamgir@cuny.edu with any questions.

Good for all: Academic Works for OERs

April 6, 2021 / / 0 Comments
OER Section of CUNY Academic Works

This is a repost of a blog from Dec. 2020. Although you may think of Academic Works as a platform for faculty research, it is also home to a robust and growing collection of open educational and OER content created at every CUNY campus.

As a reminder, adding your OER syllabus or course outline to Academic Works is a CUNY-wide requirement for OER fellows. If you would prefer, the library would be happy to work with you (contact Prof. Monica Berger to add your material on your behalf) but it is easy to do so on your own.

Today’s post focuses on why adding your OER or open textbook to Academic Works greatly benefits you in a variety of ways. Academic Works serves several functions. It preserves and documents the output of CUNY whether related to scholarship or to teaching in the open. Another key function of Academic Works it that it makes content much easier to find. Material added to Academic Works is indexed by Google and Google Scholar. Major OER repositories and hubs harvest OER content in Academic Works including OERCommons, TeachOER, and Teaching Commons. This helps OER creators outside of City Tech find and adapt your work.

Academic Works further benefits you by allowing you to document the impact of your work. Download metrics for your material in Academic Works can be added as evidence on your PARSE. Academic Works also has a widget that allows readers to comment on how a specific item helped them. Knowing who has adapted or taught with your open textbook or OER demonstrates the excellence of your work!

Since City Tech uses a non-static platform, OpenLab, for our OER Fellows program, it is difficult to neatly document any specific OER. Our solution is to share your syllabus or course outline and link to your OER. This helps other faculty discover your work. Here’s our most downloaded syllabus:

Introduction to Anthropology, ANTH 1101, Syllabus, Lisa Pope Fischer

Example of OER syllabus in Academic Works

Open textbooks and lab manuals in pdf format are easy to add to Academic Works. BIO2450L Genetics Laboratory Manual is the overall most downloaded item in our OER collection with over 7500 downloads.

BIO2450L Genetics Laboratory Manual

Please feel free to reach out to me, Prof. Monica Berger, if you have any questions about Academic Works at mberger@citytech.cuny.edu.

Good for all: Academic Works for OERs

December 9, 2020 / / 0 Comments

Although you may think of Academic Works as a platform for faculty research, it is also home to a robust and growing collection of open educational and OER content created at every CUNY campus.

As a reminder, adding your OER syllabus or course outline to Academic Works is a CUNY-wide requirement for OER fellows. If you would prefer, the library would be happy to work with you (contact Prof. Monica Berger to add your material on your behalf) but it is easy to do so on your own.

Today’s post focuses on why adding your OER or open textbook to Academic Works greatly benefits you in a variety of ways. Academic Works serves several functions. It preserves and documents the output of CUNY whether related to scholarship or to teaching in the open. Another key function of Academic Works it that it makes content much easier to find. Material added to Academic Works is indexed by Google and Google Scholar. Major OER repositories and hubs harvest OER content in Academic Works including OERCommons, TeachOER, and Teaching Commons. This helps OER creators outside of City Tech find and adapt your work.

Academic Works further benefits you by allowing you to document the impact of your work. Download metrics for your material in Academic Works can be added as evidence on your PARSE. Academic Works also has a widget that allows readers to comment on how a specific item helped them. Knowing who has adapted or taught with your open textbook or OER demonstrates the excellence of your work!

Since City Tech uses a non-static platform, OpenLab, for our OER Fellows program, it is difficult to neatly document any specific OER. Our solution is to share your syllabus or course outline and link to your OER. This helps other faculty discover your work. Here’s our most downloaded syllabus:

Introduction to Anthropology, ANTH 1101, Syllabus, Lisa Pope Fischer

Open textbooks and lab manuals in pdf format are easy to add to Academic Works. BIO2450L Genetics Laboratory Manual is the overall most downloaded item in our OER collection with over 7500 downloads.

Please feel free to reach out to me, Prof. Monica Berger, if you have any questions about Academic Works at mberger@citytech.cuny.edu.

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