OER/ZTC Course Redesign Schedule

Learning Outcomes

• Identify current uses of asset-based pedagogies in courses, including culturally sustaining pedagogy and trauma-informed pedagogy
• Design learning experiences with asset-based pedagogies
• Apply universal design for learning to course assignments and activities
• Use backward design to plan a class session or unit/module
• Identify content/materials needed for learning outcomes and learning experiences by applying backward design
• Find open educational resources (OER) for the content identified through backward design process
• Feel confident in assessing fair use
• Choose Creative Commons licenses for sharing own work

WEEK 1: Community Building

Wednesday, May 29 | 10 – 11:30am – IN PERSON

**Prior to meeting**

• If you’re not yet a member of the OpenLab (BMCC’s virtual campus), complete the sign up process (instructions)
• Create (or update) your OpenLab profile and add a photo or image (instructions)
• Introduce yourself on the Community Members page of our website (which also includes the OER/ZTC Course Redesign seminar)

Agenda

• Welcome
• Getting to know each other: postcard introductions
• Create a comp book led by Lisa Haas
• Where is the joy in your course? What are you and your students struggling with?
• “Small Kindnesses” by Danusha Laméris and the poem created by 1300 teenagers riffing

Please note: All remaining sessions will be held on Zoom (link sent in email).

WEEK 2: Thinking about Pedagogy

Monday, June 3 | 1 – 2:30pm

**Prior to meeting**

• Continue the conversation from our in-person session (click on each link below to go to page where you’ll post a response):
  • Where is joy in your course(s)?
  • What are the struggles in your course(s)?
• Read: Preparing a Learning-Focused Syllabus and Liquid Syllabus
  • Reflection: What about your syllabus is learning-focused? What is one change you might make to be more learning focused? Find an example of a policy on your syllabus; insert the phrase “because I say so” at the end. How does this change the perspective?

Agenda

• Welcome
• Syllabus convo
• What the heck is ZTC? OER?
• “The Tiger” by Nael

Wednesday, June 5 | 1 – 2:30p

**Prior to meeting**

• Read and reflect on culturally sustaining and trauma-informed pedagogies in your teaching practices
• Read “What Is Open Pedagogy” and consider these questions:
  • In what ways do you share power in your classes? Where are the places that you might make space for more student agency?
• Express your teaching philosophy as a #4WordPedagogy (e.g., “Who’s missing? Teach that” or “Start by trusting students” or “Teach less, but deeply”), we’ll share these at the start of Tuesday’s session (we also encourage you to add your #4wordpedagogy to your OpenLab profile, for example under “About me”)
• Inventory all of the OER/ZTC sources you currently use in your course (maybe list in your comp book).

Agenda

• Welcome and #4wordpedagogy
• Asset pedagogies conversation
• Open pedagogy conversation
• “Compassion” by Miller Williams

WEEK 3: Backward Design for Learning Experiences

Monday, June 10 | 1 – 2:30p

**Prior to meeting**

• Create learning experiences with backward design
  • Go to the backward design conversations page and complete the activities including the reflection prompt
  • Choose a learning outcome, module, or class session to bring to Thursday’s session; we will use these to (re)design a learning experience with backward design.
• Explore no cost resources to support learning experiences in your course, including library and other free online sources, as well as OER.

Agenda

• Applying backward design
• A room of one’s own (time to complete backward design worksheet)
• “The Thing Is” by Ellen Bass

Wednesday, June 12 | 1 – 2:30p

**Prior to meeting**

• Explore and reflect on Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
• Review Creative Commons licenses
  • Watch Creative Commons Licenses Explained (5 mins)
  • Read about CC Licenses
  • Bring questions about CC licenses to Wednesday’s session
• Continue exploring possible no-cost resources for your course (OER/no-cost definitions)

Agenda

• Universal design for learning conversation
• Open conversation about classroom and pedagogical challenges
• “Fire” by Judy Brown

WEEK 4

Monday, June 17 | 1 – 2:30p

**Prior to meeting**

• By Sunday, June 16 at 5pm, send an email to oer@bmcc.cuny.edu describing one or two examples of material that you’ve wondered if you could use without violating copyright in a past or present course. We’ll anonymize these and use them for discussion.
• Continue identifying no cost resources to support learning experiences in your course, including library and other free online sources, as well as OER. Bring questions, snafus, success stories to Monday’s session.
• Watch Fair Use (4 mins), and read about the Fair use Checklist.
• Bonus video for fun: Copying Is Not Theft (1 min)
• Bonus bonus video for a radical take: Copyright Is Brain Damage (18 mins)

Agenda

• Copyright, fair use factors and checklist
• Scenarios discussion
• Creative commons licensing conversation
• Finding no-cost materials
• Mystery poem?

Wednesday, June 19

No seminar in recognition of Juneteenth.

WEEK 5: Wrapping Up

Monday, June 24 | 1 – 2:30p

**Prior to meeting**

• Continue to apply backward design, UDL, CSP, TIP to redesigning learning activities with no-cost materials
• Read about and reflect on unconditional positive regard
• Create account on CUNY Academic Works (if you don’t already have one)

Agenda

• Copyright/fair use scenarios continued
• Considering unconditional positive regard
• What do you need to complete the redesign of your course with no-cost materials?
• “We Are of a Tribe” by Alberto Ríos

Wednesday, June 26 | 1 – 2:30p

**Prior to meeting**

• Catch up on any posts you haven’t had a chance to complete, and read and respond to, as you’re inspired, to your colleagues’ posts
• Contribute to the OER community:
  • Choose one educational material that you have created (assignment, lecture notes, slide deck (if all the images are openly licensed or you created them), that you feel comfortable adding a Creative Commons license to and sharing with other educators. (See what your colleagues have shared.)
  • Add a CC license to the material; you can use the Creative Commons license chooser to help you select a license. 
  • If you’re ready to, upload the material to CUNY Academic Works.

Agenda

• Wrap up
• ZTC designation and textbook information for your course on CUNYFirst
• Postcard reflection activity
• “Hands” by Moya Cannon
• So long and thanks for all the fish!