Funded Faculty Development Programming

OER programming at the College receives funding from the broader CUNY OER initiative. At City Tech, this programming and funding is managed through the Library.

The call for applications to the City Tech OER Fellowship program for AY 26-27 is now closed.

Faculty that receive funding to support OER projects must adhere to several requirements.

Requirements

  1. Faculty work must be licensed with one of the following Creative Commons licenses that permits adaptation (CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC BY-NC, or CC BY-NC-SA).
  2. Implement best practices for accessibility with course materials.
  3. Publicly share their work on one or a combination of the following platforms:

Workshops offered

Part-time faculty who participate in workshops will be compensated at their hourly non-teaching adjunct rate for attending.

Participants are encouraged to bring questions; no level of familiarity with OER is required. Workshops are conducted over Zoom. 

  • Introduction to Open Educational Resources
    This workshop will provide an introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) and related topics such copyright, Creative Commons licensing, Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC), and where to find free and open materials in your discipline.
  • Peer Review & OER
    In this workshop, we will explain the differences between open and traditional peer review models, share existing examples of review processes for open educational resources, and discuss the needs and wants of faculty as they relate to review of OER.
  • Introduction to Social Annotation
    Social annotation (or collaborative annotation) allows readers to interact with a text as well as with other readers through highlighting, commenting, and sharing ideas in the margins. Learn more about digital tools that can allow you and your students to engage with open texts in your classes, asking and answering questions, defining difficult words, adding reference images and links, and practicing the essential skill of close reading.

    Participants are encouraged to bring questions; no level of familiarity with OER is required. Workshops will be conducted remotely over Zoom. 

     

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