With growing concerns about the cost of college education, open educational resources (OER), which are public domain or openly licensed teaching materials, are attracting interest. Several states, including New York, have invested in providing these free alternatives to expensive course texts at their public universities. A new grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities positions the CUNY Graduate Center to lead efforts to create social justice-oriented open educational resources that engage diverse college students in active learning. With a $250,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the CUNY Graduate Center will offer the Open Education Publishing Institute: Collaborative Knowledge and Social Justice, a summer institute for scholars with experience in the digital humanities to design open educational resources that foreground diverse, anti-racist perspectives and empower students as co-creators of knowledge. The institute draws on the Graduate Center’s strengths in digital humanities and digital pedagogy.
