{"id":275,"date":"2026-03-23T15:51:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T19:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/open-knowledge-commons\/?p=275"},"modified":"2026-03-30T13:21:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:21:26","slug":"june-2026-oer-ztc-course-redesign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/open-knowledge-commons\/2026\/03\/23\/june-2026-oer-ztc-course-redesign\/","title":{"rendered":"OER\/ZTC Course Redesign &#8211; June 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We invite you to join over 370 of your colleagues who are removing barriers for students by teaching their courses with no-cost materials!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This OER\/ZTC* seminar provides a foundation for redesigning courses with no-cost materials that provide significant pedagogical and financial benefits to our students. Redesign activities will be grounded in pedagogical conversations with colleagues, as we <strong>create learning experiences with no-cost materials.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zoom sessions, which will take place on <strong>Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2:00 &#8211; 3:30 pm, in June<\/strong>, will be complemented by asynchronous activities, including readings and reflections. Applicants should be available on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Week 1: June 2 and 4<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Week 2: June 9 and 11<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Week 3: June 16 and 18<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Week 4: June 23 and 25<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Apply by Monday, April 20, at 5pm,<\/strong> using this <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/oCUpAQVi2budPiZj9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">application form<\/a>. Faculty selected to participate will receive a $1000 stipend for redesigning a course with OER and other no-cost materials and teaching at least one section as a zero textbook cost (ZTC) course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This learning community is part of the ongoing open education initiative at both CUNY and SUNY, funded by the NYS Education Department. For questions or more information, email <a href=\"mailto:oer@bmcc.cuny.edu\">oer@bmcc.cuny.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unesco.org\/en\/open-educational-resources\" target=\"_blank\">Open educational resources (OER)<\/a> and other no-cost resources, such as library materials, make it possible to teach zero textbook cost (ZTC) courses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We invite you to join over 300 of your colleagues who are teaching their courses with no cost materials! Apply by 12pm on Tuesday, May 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/open-knowledge-commons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/open-knowledge-commons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/open-knowledge-commons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/open-knowledge-commons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/open-knowledge-commons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/open-knowledge-commons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/open-knowledge-commons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/open-knowledge-commons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/open-knowledge-commons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/open-knowledge-commons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/open-knowledge-commons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}