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
  • Choose Creative Commons licenses for sharing own work

WEEK 1

Tuesday, January 3,
2-4pm
  • While we’re waiting: Write down a song (title and artist) that represents for you the joy, hope, or liberation of learning
  • Welcome
  • Getting to know each other: Team Tally
  • Thinking about pedagogy, part 1

Prior to meeting Thursday, January 5:

  • 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?
  • REMINDER: SOC faculty will meet 12-2pm on Thursday, all other cohorts will meet 2-4pm.
Thursday, January 5
2-4pm
  • Welcome
  • Syllabus convo
  • Cohort groups
  • What the heck is ZTC? OER?

WEEK 2

**Prior to Tuesday, Jan 10**

Tuesday, January 10
2-4pm
  • CSP Conversation
    • What resonated for you in Paris & Alim’s conception of CSP?
    • What is one example from your own teaching of how you incorporate CSP concepts into your courses?
    • How might you apply CSP as you redesign your course?
  • UDL Conversation
  • What are OER? What’s ZTC? (no-cost materials definitions handout, also linked above)

**Prior to Thursday, Jan 12**

Thursday, January 12
SOC 12 – 2pm, all other cohorts 2 – 4pm
  • Creative Commons licenses
  • Disciplinary groups

WEEK 3

**Prior to Tuesday, January 17**

  • By Monday, January 16 at 12pm, 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.
  • When considering and enacting asset pedagogies, such as open pedagogy and culturally sustaining pedagogy (CSP), we often focus on single classrooms rather than systems/structures. CSP acknowledges and addresses “communities who have been and continue to be damaged and erased through schooling” (Paris & Alim). Equity-centered trauma-informed education, as conceived by Alex Shevrin Venet, recognizes that schooling plays a role “in causing and worsening trauma because of the role of schools in perpetuating oppression.” After reading “Defining Trauma-Informed Education” (from Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education by Alex Shevrin Venet, sent by email), reflect on the following questions in preparation for conversation next Tuesday:
    • How might engaging with systems/structures identified in CSP and trauma-informed education influence what we do in our classrooms with our students?
    • What practices at BMCC and/or in our departments and classes possibly replicate/cause trauma?
    • How have you or how can you incorporate CSP and trauma-informed practices into the redesign of your courses?
Tuesday, January 17
2 – 4pm
  • Trauma-informed education conversation
  • Copyright and fair use discussion and scenarios

**Prior to Thursday, January 19**

  • Continue to redesign your course with OER and other no-cost resources.
  • Bring any lingering Creative Commons, copyright, and fair use questions.
Thursday, January 19
  • Continuation of copyright and fair use discussion
  • Disciplinary groups
  • Reflection