The Teaching and Learning Center at the CUNY Graduate Center supports doctoral students who teach 150,000 undergraduates each year. It has been built intentionally as a manifestation of the open education movement: in dialogue with and responsive to its constituents; imprinted with the values of openness, sharing, access, and care; and focused on building sustainable communities of inclusive practice to make life, work, and learning at the university more just. This presentation will demonstrate how various projects at the TLC encode the values of openness, including open access publishing and OER initiatives, institutes and focused inquiry groups, a major multi-campus project exploring open education at community colleges, and various collaborative programs to build open infrastructures. We’ll detail the life cycle of projects, highlighting how open practices infused each, and engage attendees in a discussion of how these practices are adaptable to different contexts.
Attendees of this session will be able to:- Describe the values and practices that are necessary to build sustain communities of care;
- Articulate how programs on their own campuses align with open practices;
- Imagine revisions to existing or new programs that meet the needs of their constituents while prioritizing communities of care;
- Connect with colleagues elsewhere to build networks of solidarity around infrastructure and strategies for open practices.
