This year, we have three new fellowship opportunities in OE@KCC.  Please check them out, spread the word to your colleagues, and apply!  All fellowships will be a combination of synchronous online meetings (approximately 6 throughout the year) along with independent asynchronous work in between meetings as needed. There are three opportunities open: the Academic Commons Fellowship, the Open Pedagogy Fellowship, and the OE Liaisons.  All instructors (full-time and part-time) are eligible and encouraged to apply for all of the fellowships in which they are interested.  

Academic Commons Fellowship

Do you want to learn how to teach on the CUNY Academic Commons, CUNY’s free and open-source online community space?  This year-long professional development experience will support a cohort of instructors exploring open educational practices by learning how to teach on the CUNY Academic Commons.  Commons fellows will design, teach, and revise a class on the CUNY Academic Commons, provide feedback on their colleagues’ work, and blog about their experience at least twice on the OE@KCC blog.  Academic Commons fellows will be accompanied on their Commons journey by the Open Education Coordinator (Professor Shawna Brandle), the Open Education Librarian (Professor Julie Turley), and our student fellow, who will help us all keep the student perspective centered.  Please note:  no prior experience teaching on or using the Commons is necessary to apply- only enthusiasm and commitment are required!  

CUNY Academic Commons Fellow will receive a stipend of $1,000; to apply please complete the form here by Tuesday, November 21.

KCC Open Pedagogy Fellowship

Be a part of the 5th year of the KCC Open Pedagogy Fellowship! Open Pedagogy is an evolving practice, but can be briefly characterized as “the practice of engaging with students as creators of information rather than simply consumers of it. It is a form of experiential learning in which students demonstrate understanding through the act of creation” (Introduction to Open Pedagogy, UTA Libraries, https://libguides.uta.edu/openped).

 Throughout the year, faculty fellows will meet together to explore the worlds of open education and open pedagogy and to support each other as they design, implement, reflect on, and revise ways of opening their own pedagogy.  The Open Education Student Fellow will serve as a resource for all faculty fellows, helping them see their assignments through a student’s eyes.  Open Pedagogy Fellows will deposit one large (or three shorter) open pedagogy assignments into CUNY Academic Works; they will also blog about their experience at least twice in the OE@KCC blog.  

Open Pedagogy Fellows will receive a stipend of $1,000.  To apply, please complete the form here by Tuesday, November 21.

Kingsborough Open Education Liaisons

To embed open education into each department, as well as to help OE@KCC design projects and programming that are most helpful to the campus community, we are seeking a small cohort of Open Education Liaisons.  OE Liaisons are responsible for being the voice of open education in their departments/programs, as well as the voice of their departments/programs in the Open Education program.  OE Liaisons will meet throughout the year with the Open Education Coordinator (Professor Shawna Brandle), the Open Education Librarian (Professor Julie Turley), and our student fellow, to share their ideas of how OE@KCC can best serve the needs of the students and faculty in their departments.  OE Liaisons will also write blog posts for the OE@KCC website and be an open resource to their departmental colleagues.  

OE Liaisons will receive a stipend of $1,000.  To apply, please complete the form here by Tuesday, November 21.