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: Asset Pedagogies

**Prior to meeting Tuesday, June 6**

• 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 Open Pedagogy Assignment Design seminar)

Tuesday, June 6 | 11:30am – 1pm

Agenda

• Welcome and land acknowledgment
• Getting to know each other: Team Tally
• Thinking about pedagogy, part 1
  • Situating our work within asset pedagogies
  • Trauma informed teaching and learning
• “Kindness” by Naomi Shihab Nye

**Prior to meeting Thursday, June 8**

• Introduce yourself on the Community Members page of our seminar site (link in menu above).
• 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?

Thursday, June 8 | 11:30am – 1pm

Agenda

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

WEEK 2: Asset Pedagogies Continued

**Prior to meeting Tuesday, June 13**

• 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”)

Tuesday, June 13

• Welcome and #4wordpedagogy
• Culturally sustaining and trauma-informed pedagogies conversation
• Open pedagogy conversation
• “We Are of a Tribe” by Alberto Ríos

**Prior to meeting Thursday, June 15**

• 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

Thursday, June 15

• Applying backward design
• A room of one’s own (time to complete backward design worksheet)
• “Fire” by Judy Brown

WEEK 3: CC Licenses, Fair Use, and More

**Prior to meeting on Tuesday, June 20**

• 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 Tuesday’s session
• Continue exploring possible no-cost resources for your course (OER/no-cost definitions)

Tuesday, June 20

• Universal design for learning conversation
• Creative commons licensing conversation
• Finding no-cost materials
• “Compassion” by Miller Williams

**Prior to meeting on Thursday, June 22**

• By Wednesday, June 21 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.
• Watch Fair Use (4 mins), and read about the Fair use Checklist.
• Bonus video: Copying Is Not Theft (1 min)
• Bonus bonus video: Copyright Is Brain Damage (18 mins)

Thursday, June 22

• Copyright prior knowledge exercise
• Fair Use four factors and checklist
• Scenarios discussion
• Excerpt from “Natural Resources” by Adrienne Rich

WEEK 4: Wrapping Up

**Prior to meeting on Tuesday, June 27**

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

Tuesday, June 27

• Scenarios continued
• Accessibility (moved to Thursday)
• “Small Kindnesses” by Danusha Laméris and the poem created by 1300 teenagers riffing

**Prior to meeting on Thursday, June 29**

• Contribute to the OER community:
  • Choose one educational material that you have created (assignment, slide deck, that you feel comfortable adding a Creative Commons license to and sharing with other educators
  • Add a Creative Commons license to this material
  • Upload the material to CUNY Academic Works
• Watch Unconditional Positive Regard (~ 8mins) and jot down ideas in response to bring to discussion on Thursday: 
  • How do or might you weave unconditional positive regard throughout your course?

Thursday, June 29

• Unconditional positive regard in our classes
• Considering accessibility
• Postcard reflection activity
• ZTC designation and textbook information for your course on CUNYFirst
• “Hands” by Moya Cannon
• So long and thanks for all the fish!