The Open Education & Publishing Institute supports faculty from a range of discipline as they create, design, and implement an Open Educational Resource (OER) and/or an OER course built on the CUNY Academic Commons or Manifold. The Open Educational Resource or the OER/ZTC course that Fellows develop will serve as models for future faculty who are interested in developing OER and teaching with open-source, digital platforms.

OEPI Fellows will work with the GC’s Open Educational Technologists and colleagues from across the CUNY system to develop their OER or Fall 2022 or Spring 2023 course. From June 13-16, Fellows will attend virtual meetings, likely including four morning informational/workshop sessions, and four afternoon working sessions to plan and begin implementing their projects. During the informational and working sessions, Fellows will learn more about the affordances of the platforms, open access content and publishing, open digital tools, and best practices for developing experiential and public facing assignments and projects. Work will continue throughout the summer, culminating in a final August meeting. Following the institute, OEPI Fellows will be expected to write a brief reflection about the OER or open course they developed during their fellowship experience.

The Open Education and Publishing Institute is offered and hosted by GC Digital Initiatives and the Teaching and Learning Center at the CUNY Graduate Center and is was made possible with funding from CUNY’s OER Initiatives.

Institute Team

Laurie Hurson, Assistant Director of Open Education, The Teaching and Learning Center, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Robin Miller, Open Educational Technologist, The GC Digital Initiatives, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Krystyna Michael, Assistant Professor, Hostos Community College

Wendy Barrales, Manifold Graduate Fellow, PhD Candidate in Urban Education, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Miryam Nacimento, Manifold Graduate Fellow, PhD Candidate in Cultural Anthropology, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Matt Gold, Associate Professor of English and Digital Humanities, Director of the M.A. Program in Digital Humanities and the M.S. Program in Data Analysis and Visualization, The Graduate Center, CUNY; Advisor to the Provost for Digital Initiatives, and Director of the CUNY Academic Commons

Luke Waltzer, Director, The Teaching and Learning Center, The Graduate Center, CUNY; Director of Community Projects, The CUNY Academic Commons; Director, CUNY Humanities Alliance