For the 6th consecutive year, CUNY will be funded by New York State to envision, establish, and institutionalize new and ongoing OER initiatives and practices across CUNY. Please note that there are still potential opportunities for grant funding to faculty who are hoping to develop OER and/or use OER or ZTC materials in their courses. For more information, please contact Professor Christina Boyle, Emerging Technologies Librarian and OER Coordinator, at christina.boyle@csi.cuny.edu.
As in years one through five, the CUNY OER scale-up initiative seeks to incentivize and empower CUNY faculty to redesign their course materials and pedagogy through the replacement of proprietary textbooks with open educational resources; develop flexible and interoperable central and campus based technology platforms; as well as, enhance and deliver distributed faculty support models and programming. The short-term goal is to reduce costs for students and accelerate their progress through college. However, an important secondary impact is to change the culture to create systems, structures, and innovative teaching practices that better connect curriculum and pedagogy to updated student learning outcomes. With that secondary goal in mind, the OER initiative encourages collaboration between libraries, CETLS, online learning units, and other campus units focused on improving the teaching and learning process.
The Office of Library Services will continue to provide system-wide coordination, workshops/training, marketing, assessment, accessibility review, and facilitate communities of practice.
The Office of Academic Affairs seeks proposals whose outcomes include:
Like years one through five, of particular interest and priority are proposals that target high enrollment general education classes or “Z” degrees (entire OER Zero Cost Degree pathways). To qualify for preferred eligibility for the CUNY OER Initiative, it is suggested that your institution commit to converting at least five (5) courses to OER with five (5) sections per course. However, our aim is to be as inclusive as possible and all proposals will be considered.
Faculty compensation for OER course conversion:
$2,000 per course. For each course selected it is preferred that it be taught across five (5) sections, with the course developer serving as lead course manager. The role of the lead course manager is to convert the course materials to OER, assist and acclimate section instructors to the OER course structure, and inform advisors and the Registrar about the “Zero Textbook Cost Course” status of the course sections. A mid-year and end-of-year report will be required of each course manager as well. Faculty can share course compensation evenly if they choose to collaborate. Faculty compensation is facilitated via course release, or as summer salary, or summer NTA hours.
Compensation for faculty training:
$500 per course section for section instructors, will receive training by the course developer to teach their courses using OER materials. Faculty compensation is facilitated via course release, or as summer salary, or summer NTA hours.
Any materials adopted, adapted or created as a result of this grant should adhere to university-wide accessibility standards.
Any original OER materials created must be assigned a Creative Commons License. If the materials are in a document format they should be submitted to CUNY’s institutional repository, Academic Works. If the materials are in the form of a website they should be submitted to CUNY Open Ed, CUNY’s OER discovery site. CUNY librarians will assist and advise if needed. Please consult the OER Artifacts Protocol for more information.
Participants will be expected to share best practices and lessons learned, to provide necessary data so the project can be properly assessed, and to participate in the assessment and evaluation process. Requirements will include a summary report detailing outcomes for each course and the designation of Zero Textbook Cost Course attribute in CUNYfirst.
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