Education Course Conversion Cohort

  1. Introductions to each other
  2. Crash Course in Open Education
    1. Slides
    2. Creating an OER One Sheet
    3. Review of Grant Requirements
    4. Useful resource:  K-12 Digital Pedagogy by Kelly Hammond
    5. CUNY Teacher Education OER Hub
    6. OER for Early Childhood Ed Google Doc
    7. Projects that might be inspiring:
      1. Last year’s KCC Education Cohort!
      2. Modern Humanities (Manifold project)
      3. Kingsborough Open Literatures (Academic Commons site)
      4. Brooklyn College-created OER  
      5. Education OER on CUNY Academic Works
      6. Making Open Educational Resources with and for PreK12
  3. Group and individual goal-setting and discussion
  1. Progress Check-in
  2. Discussion of Nikki Anderson’s Enhancing Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and accessibility in OER
  3. Activity: syllabus/course/materials review for diversity, equity, and inclusion
  • Begin to convert syllabus, identify gaps, and ask for help
    • You can always email Muskaan, Shawna, or Julie for personalized assistance- we are here to help!
  1. Progress Check-in
  2. Deep Dive on Library Resources
  1. Check-ins
  2. Discussion of readings on Open Pedagogy and Selected Articles from Special Issue of the Journal of Multicultural Education
  3. Activity:  brainstorm 3 possible ways to open your pedagogy and discuss
  4. Resources:
    1. “Chapter 5: Open Pedagogy” in A Graduate Student’s Guide to Open Education and Scholarship
    2. Katz and Van Allen, “Evolving Into the Open: A Framework for Collaborative Design of Renewable Assignments”
    3. A Guide to Making Open Textbooks with Your Students
    4. Open Pedagogy Slides with clickable links
    5. KCC Open Pedagogy Fellowship Website
    6. Information on Liquid Syllabus is here and here
      1. Check out KCeL’s liquid syllabus for inspiration
      2. Sample CUNY Commons Syllabus/Course Template you can clone if you like 
  • Read Anderson, Nikki.   Accessibility, Usability, and Universal Design for Learning in Enhancing Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEA) in Open Educational Resources (OER), Australian Edition. 
  • Schedule a meeting with the Open Education Student Fellow to see how a student would view your syllabus.
  • Finish first draft of your converted syllabus before next meeting
  1. Accessibility: Best Practices
    1. Why & How
    2. Quick Start to Accessibility:  
      1. Use Styles to Add Headings
        1. Use the styles hierarchically
        2. Once applied, you can use use styles for the outline, table of contents, and to easily make font/color/size choices consistently across a whole document
        3. Information & How-To use Styles
      2. Add Alt-text to images (how/why to alt-text)
      3. Make URLs descriptive links, not word salad
      4. Run Accessibility Checker in Microsoft Word and make any necessary changes (check the warnings as well as the broken)
    3. Resources:
      1. Universal Design for Learning in 30 Seconds Slides
      2. CUNY Office of Library Services Accessibility Toolkit for OER
      3. Accessibility and Open Educational Resources on the UDL in Higher Ed site
  • Revise Converted Syllabus
  • Prepare to present and deposit
  • Write one blog post and post it to the OE@KCC blog, reflecting on what you’ve done and learned throughout the year and any ways this project has informed your thinking about teaching and learning
  1. Reminder of Grant Requirements
    1. Have your chair mark your class as ZTC in CUNYfirst going forward
    2. Add a notation: This is a Zero Textbook Cost Course.  
    3. Add a CC license and deposit to CUNY Academic Works
      1. instructions for depositing
    4. Syllabus needs to be deposited by the end of May
    5. Make final blog post
  2. Presentations
  3. Reflections on the Project & Suggestions for Improvement
  4. Deposit and Celebrate!!!