Research Guides: OER How-To at Guttman Community College: ZTC, CUNY OER and more

OERs Developed by Guttman Faculty

OER Repository of Guttman Community College
Access to OERs created and curated by Guttman Community College faculty, staff, and students. You can find OER by Program: Business Administration, First Year Experience, Human Services, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Math, Urban Studies.
Guttman OER on Academic Works
A list of OERs by Guttman faculty members on CUNY Academic Commons organized by year.
CUNY Academic Commons
Contains a list of OER courses created by Guttman Community College.
OpenEd CUNY
Search Guttman's Open educational resources at CUNY through a curated digital library.
OER Commons
Open modules produced by Guttman faculty

Open Educational Resources and Zero-Cost Textbook Across CUNY

Open Educational Resources and Zero-Cost Learning
Guide by Amy Wolfe is a place where professors and students are able to find lists of CUNY Open Educational Resources (OER), Zero-Cost library resources, and other useful tools to access.

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Zero Textbook Cost Guidelines
“Zero Textbook Cost” or ZTC is the designation used in CUNYFirst to indicate that a course does not require students enrolled in the class to purchase a textbook or required readings.

Get step by step directions how to designate your course "Zero Cost Textbook" (ZTC) in CUNYfirst.

It is also important that you let your students know that they are registered in a ZTC / OER course. The following language written by Serge Rodriguez will be helpful in the syllabi for the course:

This course uses Open Education Resources/Zero cost course material.

There are no required books to purchase for this course, or items will be provided to you in the class.

ZTC Guide
This guide explains Zero Textbook Cost further and differentiates between ZTC and OER

OER Examples and Resources at CUNY

OpenEd CUNY
Search open educational resources at CUNY through a curated digital library.
Academic Commons
An open space where the CUNY community can find like-minded colleagues, build personal or professional websites, teach, learn, and collaborate in open classrooms. The Commons has over thirty thousand members, and each member can join or create sites, groups, or a group + site on the Commons Creation Portal. Many professors use the Commons as a platform for teaching and ask their students to join their site or group. Professors and students may publish research on the Commons.
Academic Works
The series in Guttman Academic Works include items that are significant to its institutional and intellectual history and that are also authorized for open dissemination and public consumption. Series include the Guttman Community College Archives, Guttman Faculty Publications and Research, and Guttman Open Educational Resources (OERs).
OA@CUNY
A site produced by CUNY librarians to advocate for open access scholarship across CUNY.
CUNY's OER Research Guide
A guide on OER and OER resources.
Manifold @CUNY
Free digital publishing platform at CUNY to create and share OER

OER Initiatives at CUNY and Broader

Achieving the Dream Grant seeks to increase OER in higher education to provide accessible and responsive materials to students, including CUNYs, and Tennessee schools.
The OER Degree Initiative revealed OERs help students complete degrees
New York OER Fund's goal to replace traditional textbooks with Open-access textbooks in CUNYs started in 2017 and is ongoing. This initiative engages faculty in the redesign of courses through the replacement of proprietary textbooks with open educational resources. With an intensive student engagement model focused on community college completion, Guttman is putting in place the resources to continue its path towards zero and low-cost openly licensed materials for students.
Gates Foundation Waymaker Study studied how students cognitively learn from course materials.
CUNY is part of North America's Community College Consortium for OER (CCCOER), promoting and adopting open educational resources.

Gathered from OER@BMCC, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0); (N.Y.S. Open Educational Resources Funds: CUNY Year Four)

Office of Educational Technology
The U.S. Office of Educational Technology Competitive Grant Programs support the enhancement and dissemination of K-12 Openly Licensed Educational Resources.