The Digital Tool Box for Teaching and Scholarship, created by Brooklyn College Library's OER Developers, is dedicated to exploring and evaluating some of the many digital tools available on the web. We will explore various tools, discussing how they can be used in classrooms as learning objects and will also provide links to interesting and exciting projects where they are used. This toolbox will also touch on accessibility in digital scholarship and creation. Since this toolbox is part of the CUNY and SUNY 2017-19 Open Educational Resources Initiative, we are committing to present tools which are openly available.

This program surveys two centuries of art and culture in the city now known as Tokyo. Ceramics, screens, textiles, prints, paintings, and armor are among the materials discussed.

The Environment and the Earth class at the University of South Carolina participated in a campus environmental service-learning project where students collected data lighting, water fixtures, recycling bins, and trash in five academic buildings.

This workshop bridges the concepts of equity (broadly conceived) and accessibility, treating them as related and intersecting. Its intention is to increase our collective and individual capacity to become more equity and accessibility-minded educators: especially in the online classroom, where existing inequity and a lack of accessibility can sometimes be magnified, but which is also a place that can offer new forms of engagement and connection.

In this blog post, Dr. Christina Katopodis details ways to build flexibility into a syllabus by adding more "or" options to cater to different learners.

Welcome to our faculty resource page. We often assign research projects but don’t always have the time to devote to these skills in class. This tutorial is designed to help both faculty and students through the process, from developing a research question, to finding articles, to using articles in a research project. We encourage you to assign sections of this tutorial throughout the semester. The tutorial includes several worksheets that you may collect or use as a basis of discussion in class. You will also find activities designed for faculty to plan a scaffolded research project, help students develop topics, and teach key information literacy skills. Contains: Annotated Bibliography Activity, How to Use a Source: The BEAM Method, Helping Students Build Better Research Questions, The Stases as Research Method, Scaffold Research Calendar (guide students' the research process), Zotero access, Librarian Tips on Good Research Assignments.

The process of research is often more complex than students anticipate. Part of helping them succeed is making visible the steps in the research process and helping students recognize that each step will require them to employ different skills. This section of the Faculty Toolkit provides small, low-stakes activities that can be adapted and deployed throughout the semester to help students develop the skills and understanding needed to get them to the finish line: the research project! This toolkit covers the different stages of the research process, covering understanding the assignment, developing topic/research questions, finding and evaluating information (including keywords, OneSearch, peer review), synthesizing and organizing information, composing, designing, citing, and information ethics.

Focus efforts on deliberately building opportunities for your classroom community to emerge and flourish.

Students study aquatic organisms in relation to the environmental conditions of lakes and streams. The course develops substantial quantities of data concerning the local watershed. This data is used by community partners in many contexts.

This course on "Future Internet Opportunities" consists of 10 modules, which are related to the subject from technical, social and business perspectives.

Each module is available at introductory, basic and advanced levels.

The material is developed as part of an Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership, and available for everyone to use, exploit and modify. The materials consist of a wide variety of materials: From Powerpoint slides, to interactive materials with videos and quizzes, assignments, and peer learning activities.

If you have found yourself searching for, adapting or creating materials for your heritage classes because of a lack of readily available commercial resources, this site is for you!

This Instructor’s Guide contains the brief outlines of Chapters 12-21 as found in Concepts of Biology, though some underwent revision. Also, instructors will find detailed outlines of the text for use in lecturing, as well as structured outlines that may be used by students to take notes while reading the chapter or during lecture. All outlines are derived from the OpenStax text. Additionally, study guides that contain a variety of questions are provided for students.

This syllabus for an introductory course on critical theory, designed for students at Lehman College in Spring 2021, incorporates the works of Audre Lorde as a running touchstone throughout the semester. ENG 463/702, “Introduction to Critical Theory x The Audre Lorde Great Read,” was designed to provide students with an understanding of literary theory that could be implemented and practiced right away, enabling them to experience what it means to engage with public-facing humanities during a course-long semester on theory. Half of our sessions are seminar discussions of critical theory readings in the classroom; the other half is host to lectures, performances, and in conjunction with Activism in Academia, Lehman Envision ARC, Transformative Learning in the Humanities, The Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center, and The Grolier Club. This resource is provided by Olivia Loksing Moy.Olivia Loksing Moy is assistant professor of English at Lehman College, CUNY, where she specializes in nineteenth-century British poetry and poetics. She is the founder and director of The CUNY Rare Book Scholars and, since 2016, has organized the Activism in Academia symposium alongside Dhipinder Walia, Lise Esdaile, and the Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center. 

What do we mean by “open” teaching? And how does “open” relate to “digital pedagogy”? This workshop will introduce the foundations of open digital pedagogy and provide examples from The CUNY Academic Commons, a WordPress teaching and learning platform used by faculty in a variety of graduate and undergraduate courses across CUNY.

Free practice modules for Spanish language educators
Introduction to Oral Proficiency Levels is a free open educational resource that can help Spanish teachers gain a foundational understanding of how to evaluate Spanish speakers. The resource includes 17 video-based practice modules designed to strengthen your understanding of the ACTFL Speaking Proficiency Guidelines and to help you evaluate the speaking levels of your language students.

This FYS Resource collection was designed for instructors teaching First Year Seminar-like courses to high school students in NYC Public Schools. It includes a broad range of activities that promote college and career readiness skills for use in the classroom.

These activities introduce, model, and practice college and career readiness skills on the five topics above in a manner accessible to a 10th grader. They range from 15-minute activities to multi-day sequences for an instructor to integrate into their course.

The Core Composition Sequence at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY with sample syllabi and resources for ENG 1200: Composition I and ENG 2400: Composition II.

Der Landesbildungsserver Baden-Württemberg ist die Standard-Plattform Baden-Württembergs für alles im Umfeld Schule.
The german "Educations-Server" of Baden-Württemberg provides a great variety of educational stuff. Well tested and approved for the teachers every-day-life.
All free.

This is a guide for faculty who are interested in converting their courses to OER. It briefly defines OER, and provides resources for finding OER materials.