Introducing the CUNY Language Immersion Program to OE Resources

I am very excited to take part in this initiative and to bring these ideas to CLIP. Our students have been admitted to a CUNY college but have not started taking credit-bearing classes because of low language proficiency. As such, CLIP can be described as a feeder or gateway program, so investing in its development and sustainability impacts all of us.

My experience in converting a for-credit course into an open educational resource has helped me improve my practice, and now I want to exted it to CLIP. The collective experience of dissecting each aspect of our courses and rebuilding them in a much more accessible way needs to be integrated into the leading-edge work our faculty engages in. More specifically, I hope to achieve the following goals:

a. Create a comprehensive and accessible course, starting with the syllabus

b. Discover new resources and alternatives aimed at further integrating CLIP to the larger university community.

c. Inspire more CLIP faculty to join an OER initiative.

Once again, I am very excited to join!

Joao da Silva