LaGaurdia's OER Toolkit: Help & Support

• LaGuardia's OER librarians can provide support for your OER projects. If you or your department require 1:1/tailored help we can guide you to find appropriate sources, understand copyright and open licensing, implement changes in your courses, and more. 
• Participating in the Center for Teaching and Learning OER Seminar is an excellent way to learn about OER and build a community of practice. It can also be a space to learn about ways to build your OER, find collaborators for your projects, and hear about ways your colleagues are bringing open educational practices into their classrooms. The seminar runs each spring and the application will be available on the Center for Teaching and Learning website.
• Funding for OER projects may be available through the New York State OER grant. 

Join us for the spring 2025 CTL OER Seminar

The spring 2025 OER Seminar invites instructors and staff to explore their past, current, or desired use of OER at LaGuardia. Seminar co-leaders will present and discuss a variety of experiences with OER, from authoring a textbook to implementing OER in high enrollment courses. Other key topics include:

• Copyright, licensing, and citation in OER
• Publishing, modifying and archiving OER
• Accessibility and Universal Design for Learning
• Open pedagogy and student creators

Facilitators: Ian McDermott, Emma Handte, and Rena Grossman, Library, and Joshua Tan, Natural Sciences

Eligibility: Full-time and part-time faculty and staff.

Dates: This seminar meets via Zoom. Dates will be announced in 2025.

Support: Contingent upon attendance and active participation in all seminar activities, each Academic Affairs full-time faculty participant will receive a stipend of $500. Adjunct faculty may receive non-teaching pay if eligible.

Apply - CTL Seminars 2024 - 2025 Application Form

Inquiries: Ian McDermott  imcdermott@lagcc.cuny.edu

• Ian McDermott, Associate Professor, Coordinator of Library Instruction 

• Rena Grossman, OER Librarian

• Emma Handte, OER Instructional Technologist