Paid Professional Development Opportunity: Open Educational Resources Summer Training Learn how to incorporate Open Educational Resources into your teaching practice and earn $2,000. Applications due May 10. Apply today<https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=s_BgbwZfCU6XFZiduozH2JqOE4hCQmpBqtHomk4fi6hUOERKSTY3SDVHUFZIVlIyRlcyTU8yVFo3Ny4u> Nearly forty percent of CUNY students come from households with annual incomes of less than $20,000. For many of our students, the cost of textbooks can be a steep barrier to academic success. Students often choose not to register for courses that require expensive textbooks, or fail courses simply because they cannot afford the materials. These patterns can lead to increased enrollment time and reduced rates of degree completion. You can help! Queens College faculty have saved our students over $2 million in textbook fees since 2018 by using Open Educational Resources, or OER. Learn more about OER<https://qc-cuny.libguides.com/oer-ztc>. This summer, the Queens College Library is pleased to offer an accelerated OER Fellowship Program. Through this program, held over four days in June, OER Fellows learn the fundamental principles of OER and open pedagogy, develop technical skills to create and curate accessible course content, organize cohesive and coherent materials tied to overarching learning objectives, and apply rigorous assessment standards to identify existing resources for classroom use. Faculty Fellows receive $2,000 in compensation. Faculty Fellows commit to: * Participate in four 90-minute remote workshops June 3-6 * Develop a zero-textbook-cost course * Teach at least one section of the OER or ZTC course in the following academic year * Submit openly licensed course materials to one of our institutional repositories by August 27 * Write a brief (200-500 word) end-of-fellowship narrative Through the Fellowship program, faculty learn to: * Define and distinguish between open educational resources and zero textbook cost materials * Find and evaluate existing open educational resources * Assemble organized and easily modified syllabi * Navigate intellectual property, fair use, copyright, and Creative Commons licenses * Create accessible resources * Explore the principles and practice of open pedagogy * Enact social justice by reducing economic barriers to student success Faculty Fellows make the resources they create openly available for other faculty to adopt, and we are happy to be able to offer modest funding to each faculty member the first time they teach a ZTC section of a course using a Fellow's materials. Apply today<https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=s_BgbwZfCU6XFZiduozH2JqOE4hCQmpBqtHomk4fi6hUOERKSTY3SDVHUFZIVlIyRlcyTU8yVFo3Ny4u> =================== Dr. Leila Walker Assistant Professor Humanities & Digital Scholarship Librarian Queens College CUNY Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library Room 346 65-30 Kissena Boulevard Queens, NY 11367-1597 leila.walker@qc.cuny.edu<mailto:leila.walker@qc.cuny.edu> Dr. Soniya Munshi (she/they) (hear my name<https://namedrop.io/soniyamunshi>) Director, Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Leadership <https://www.qc.cuny.edu/cetll/> (CETLL) Associate Professor of Urban Studies Queens College, CUNY