CCNY Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources 

Every year, about fifty instructors at CCNY develop or find high-quality no-cost instructional material. These materials are gathered under the umbrella term Open Educational Resources (OER) and are classified in the course search page as Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) courses. The Teaching and Learning Center offers an online hybrid training course (80% asynchronous, 20% synchronous) which walks faculty through the issues of copyright protection, fair use, and finding available open educational resources. Instructors who complete all modules of our OER conversion training in synch with the course schedule, convert their courses to OER/ZTC, and submit at least one teaching artifact to Academic Works, and receive approval from one of our OER fellows will receive a total of $1,200 payment in two $600 installments. The TLC offers these courses twice a year, in January and June. If you're interested in the hybrid training course or have any questions, please send an email to the Teaching and Learning Center at tlc@ccny.cuny.edu

Faculty who participate in the OER Initiative will be paid as non-teaching adjuncts (NTA).

  • A higher stipend amount can be proposed for lead faculty of a large enrollment course (5 or more sections or 100 students). 
  • There’s a stipend cap of $2000 per faculty.

We will start processing paperwork for stipend after you have completed all the requirements listed below.

Take a look at some examples of course content that other CCNY instructors have submitted.


 

Curated CCNY Academic Works Open Educational Resource Submissions


CCNY Open Press Initiative

CCNY accepts between three and five OER textbook projects every year. These texts are free of charge to everyone. Faculty who create an OER textbook with the Teaching and Learning Center will receive $10,000. We encourage faculty to submit their textbook proposals to us by emailing  tlc@ccny.cuny.edu . Faculty members accepted into our Open Press Initiative program complete a five-session synchronous introduction to open educational resource practices and pedagogy. Following this introductory course, they work with an OER Fellow who provides both technological and pedagogical support until the project is complete. Project completion generally takes between one and three years.

Z Degrees 

Students in some majors are able to earn a Z degree, which means that at least one section of every required course in their major subject is designated ZTC. These courses have to be offered with enough frequency that a student would reasonably be able to complete a degree in four years. Departments that offered Z degrees as of September 2024 include: 

 

Last Updated: 12/06/2024 11:03