AbstractWhat role did COVID-19 play in the students’ benefits and challenges of open educational resources (OER)? Motivated by decades of research in helping students to access and use course materials to improve their learning by offering substitutes to the highly priced and exponentially increasing costs of commercially printed textbooks, this paper takes another dive to understand students’ challenges and benefits of OERs during the pandemic. Based on an anonymous survey distributed to students enrolled in CUNY Kingsborough Community College (N=1,175 participants) during Fall 2020, the two top benefits reported were cost savings and access. Some challenges that are identified in open and closed ended questions are organization of the material to fit the course design of the faculty. It is important to note that students had difficulty with accessing also the OER material, unlike prior surveys, but they continue recommending OER material at similar rates as prior to the pandemic.

This website was created as an OER (Open Educational Resource) for the Borough of Manhattan Community College’s “MMP100 – Introduction to Multimedia” course. [...] The content of the course has been divided into “Topics”. Please refer to the “Syllabus” page for a suggested weekly breakdown. Each topic’s page includes slides (core concepts and terminology), web resources (relevant tutorials, articles etc.), as well as sample assignments and grading rubrics (faculty members are free to use these exact guidelines or to adapt them). [...] This site is administered by Prof. Anna Pinkas, Assistant Professor at the Borough of Manhattan Community College’s Media Arts & Technology Department. Please send any suggestions or concerns to: apinkas@bmcc.cuny.edu

Doug Cohen's Music 1300 is a site for students of Music Appreciation, both at Brooklyn College and around the world. We feature open access web resources, and resources available to the CUNY community. We are committed to the use of Open Education Resources (OER). Click on the tabs and dropdown menus to navigate to the lower level pages.

This is a supplement to my syllabus for USSO 10100, United States Society 10100. This supplement contains links to online resources that cover the subjects that would ordinarily be covered in a textbook. Some resources are literary selections. Other resources are videos. All of the resources included in this supplement to my syllabus are free. This is one approach to a ZTC USSO course. -Johnnie Wilder, Ph.D.

A project of Macaulay Honors College and CUNY Advance, "Science Forward is a new type of undergraduate science seminar, helping students to see science as a lens on the world, a way of approaching questions and challenges. The course focuses on the critical thinking skills in use across the scientific disciplines, which we have summarized as the “science senses.” Starting with critical issues in the contemporary world, from climate change to the social and economic implications of artificial intelligence, the course encourages active learning and inquiry-based instruction."

Teaming is a verb. It is the dynamic coordination and communication of individuals striving to leverage their unique perspectives. When a group of people with different abilities, talents, experiences, and backgrounds come together for a shared purpose they are teaming. Their ability to leverage their differences is what allows for “magic” or synergy.

Our mission in this platform is to facilitate the unlocking of this potential by providing evidence-based resources so that you can successfully engage in teaming: to leverage the diversity of perspectives and experiences in your team, and to do so in an inclusive way. Our hope is to help your team to work together and solve problems that matter, to innovate, and to develop every team member’s skills and thinking to meet the demands of modern, collaborative, and diverse organizations.

This material provides an introduction to a tissue engineering module in an experimental methods in biomedical engineering course. Students are expected to be familiar with this material prior to a pre-assessment taken at the beginning of class as we have condense lecture time this semester.

This is a youth to youth guide to the GED. Written for and by youth it is a learner-centered tool for understand choices and options around the GED.

Welcome to the Brooklyn College Writing Across the Curriculum resource page. Here instructors and students alike can find a variety of documents to employ writing as a tool to develop writing skills, and to improve critical and creative thinking. Review the tabs above to access downloadable .pdf resource files.

More information about WAC is available at http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/wac