CUNY Online Unscripted Ep. 2: Abigail Torres sits down with Dr. Joshua Tan of LaGuardia Community College to explore Open Educational Resources (OER). They discuss what OER are, why they matter, and how faculty can find, use and create openly licensed materials to replace “traditional” textbooks, reduce student textbook costs, improve access to higher education and promote collaboration in online learningProduced by CUNY Online, Unscripted is a monthly podcast which spotlights the people, ideas and innovations advancing online education. CUNY Online partners with CUNY colleges to support the development of more than 220 online degree and certificate programs and to advance high-quality online teaching and learning.  Learn more: https://www.cuny.edu/academics/online-education-at-cuny/podcast/Contact CUNY Online at: [email protected] a guest or suggest a topic for the podcast: https://ybephbsyus.formstack.com/forms/join_the_conversationResources Mentioned in This Episode: OER Commons: https://oercommons.org/ Academic Works: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/ Academic Commons: https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/ Pressbooks: https://pressbooks.cuny.edu/ Manifold: https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/ Different Licenses for OER: Sharing Openly, Sharing Globally - Creative Commons CC 0 – Public Domain CC By – give attribution SA - share alike NC – no commercial purposes CC ND - no derivatives

Welcome to the new CUNY Online Unscripted  Podcast, which spotlights the people, ideas and innovations advancing online education.

In this episode, CUNY Associate Professor Meghan Gilbert discusses how to build trust with students online by creating an asynchronous classroom that encourages authentic sharing, community and a sense of belonging. The conversation spotlights English 203, an online undergraduate writing course at Guttman Community College that Gilbert and CUNY Online instructional designer Ashley Park worked together to bring online.

This podcast is produced by CUNY Online, which partners with CUNY colleges to support the development of more than 220 online degree and certificate programs and to advance high-quality online teaching and learning. 

Learn more: https://www.cuny.edu/academics/online-education-at-cuny/

Contact CUNY Online at: [email protected]