In one breathtaking hour on June 5th, 2025, those zooming into Kingsborough’s 2025 Open Education Lightning Talk showcase  “Get Struck by Inspiration” were treated to a succession of CUNY professors who had five minutes each to talk Open Ed. From KCC professor, Laura Kates, whose seminar centers her education students who lead book talks, to KCC biology professor Dmitry Brogun on his Pressbooks-platformed UDL OER textbook General Biology Laboratory Manual, which is eternally accessible right here in the Commons, and has saved students over $400k plus combined so far. KCC political scientist Professor Jamie Oroosi demonstrated how he inspires students toward optimal library research with the peer-reviewed sources they share out,  Anthony Chatman detailed his fascinating work engaging criminal justice students digitally archiving “true” true crime via ArcGis story maps, and data analysis and visualization. Early education professor Julie Morris’s students share observational strategies and valuable data gathering. Closing out the packed hour, York College Professor Virginia Thompson stunned us by how she makes precalculus exciting and accessible. Using the OER MyOpenMath, she makes sure students “don’t throw away their learning” by having them create public facing test questions and math resources for fellow students, and also facilitates cooperation among departments by having computer science students code student-created questions for MyOpenMath. Her parting words? “Without OER, I would not have been led to open pedagogy, and I would not have considered students as co-creators.”  Thanks to KCC’s Open Ed Faculty Coordinator (and force of nature) Professor Shawn Brandle for creating the showcase and making sure it happened at semester’s end!