CSI Library: Open Educational Resources (OER): Creating OER

Resources for CUNY Faculty

CUNY Academic Works is a service of the CUNY Libraries dedicated to collecting and providing access to the research, scholarship, and creative and pedagogical work of the City University of New York. Faculty can browse OER materials and add your own!

CUNY Manifold

Manifold is freely available to the CUNY community. With Manifold, you can publish dynamic digital texts with rich media support, powerful annotation tools, and robust community dialogue. Manifold transforms scholarly publications into living digital works.

View The OER Starter Kit Workbook, a guide to OER published on Manifold.

CUNY Academic Commons

Freely available to the CUNY community, the Academic Commons is designed to support faculty initiatives and build community through the use(s) of technology in teaching and learning.

Remixing and Publishing OER

The platforms included below can be used to remix and publish OER.

OER Commons
OER Commons is a digital public library and collaboration platform that offers a comprehensive infrastructure for curriculum experts and instructors at all levels to identify high-quality OER and collaborate around their adaptation, evaluation, and use.
OpenEd CUNY
OpenEd CUNY is a community for producing, sharing, and discussing OER at the City University of New York. Built as a part of CUNY’s involvement in the New York State OER Scale Up Initiative, OpenEd CUNY is used by the 24 CUNY campuses to facilitate OER enabled pedagogy and make the work that CUNY faculty, staff, and students are doing with OER more visible and shareable.
Merlot
The MERLOT system provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.