Touro University Libraries, in collaboration with The Office of the Provost, is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 Touro University Open Educational Resources (OER) Faculty Fellowship. This fellowship awards faculty a stipend of $500 to develop OER for use in their courses. At the end of the fellowship, the fellows’ OER projects will be published on Touro Scholar and in public OER repositories. Our 2023 OER fellows are:
Gena Bardwell, MFA Director, General Education Chair and Assistant Professor, Speech and Communication Touro University NY, NYSCAS
David Nussbaum, MA Assistant Professor, Speech and Communication Touro University NY, NYSCAS
Michelle Buccinna, OTD, OTR/L Director, Long Island Campus, Occupational Therapy MS Assistant Professor, Occupational Therapy MS Touro University NY, School of Health Sciences
Regina Burch, AB, MSA, JD Interim Assistant Dean for Academic Excellence and Bar Success Visiting Professor of Law Touro Law Center
Stephanie Klinesmith, MS Instructor of Anatomy and Neuroanatomy Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine, Middletown
Jacqueline Randa, PT, DPT, PhD, NCS, OCS Assistant Professor, School of Physical Therapy Touro University Nevada
Deborah Ratti, PhD Assistant Professor, Sociology Touro University NY, NYSCAS
Tom Rozinski, JD, MA Associate Professor and Deputy Chair for Lander College for Men Department of Political Science Touro University NY
James Van Rhee, MS, PA-C Associate Professor and Chair of Assessment and Remediation PA Program Touro University
Did you know that open educational resources (OER) can be more than simply textbooks? Many people think of a textbook, that standard tool for teaching and learning, when they think of OER. But did you know that OER can be much more than just textbooks? There are great many ancillary resources available as OER as well, and the depth and variety of what’s available is only growing.
This fellowship is intended to support faculty to develop OER for use in their courses. All full-time faculty, across all Touro University departments and campuses, with anticipated teaching responsibilities for the 2023-2024 academic year are eligible to apply. The fellowship period will be from July 2023 to December 2023. The deadline for submission is June 16, 2023. We strongly encourage interested faculty to contact Kirk Snyder (OER & Instruction Librarian) before submitting an application. Apply here!
Fellows receive a stipend of $500 for their full participation in the fellowship program and finished OER to be used in their course within the next calendar year. The fellowship period is six months long.
Participants will:
Develop an open educational resource for a specific course; completing the work by the end of the fellowship and publishing the finished work via Touro Scholar
Retain copyright to their materials and all resources will be released under a Creative Commons license allowing derivatives
Use their OER project materials in their course within the next calendar year
Attend meetings with the OER librarian as needed and meetings with the cohort of OER Fellows monthly, during the fellowship term; these meetings will be held via Zoom
Complete trainings and short assessments during the fellowship term
Present their work to the campus at a to-be-determined event/date
Engage in OER advocacy efforts at Touro, as an OER ambassador during the fellowship term and beyond
Receive faculty development digital badges
Eligibility:
Any full-time faculty member in the Touro University System with anticipated teaching responsibilities for the following academic year.
Apply by June 16th to be considered for the fellowship, and please share this great opportunity with colleagues across Touro far and wide!
[post contributed by Kirk Snyder, OER & Instruction Librarian, Cross River Campus]
Welcome to our series recognizing champions of free and affordable course materials at Touro! These “Textbook Heroes” have made a difference in the lives of our students by lowering the cost of their degrees. Do you know someone who fits the bill? Nominate them (or yourself) by contacting the Libraries.
Dr. Bigel has partnered with Touro Libraries to publish a series of peer-reviewed open textbooks on the Pressbooks platform. Introduction to Financial Analysis, the first book in the series is available here.
Who are you? Tell us more about you and the course you teach.
I am a former Wall Street executive who did stints in Asset Management, International Commercial Lending, Corporate Strategic Planning, and Forensic Finance. I hold M.B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from NYU and am a Certified Financial PlannerTM registrant. I taught Finance at NYU from 1989-1998 and since 2000 have been teaching Finance with pleasure at the Lander College for Men, Touro University. I have published two e-books in a series which will eventually number five OER volumes. Over the years, I have found that my students ask questions from perspectives that I had not considered. I have endeavored to inculcate these questions into my books. These texts were written for them and the students have taught me so much. Thus, the texts are written in a most friendly manner and are replete with examples and exercises so that the learner can proceed smoothly through the material.
It’s Open Education Week, and this year we’re kicking it off with a bang. We will be sharing posts throughout the week about what the Touro University community has been doing with open education in the past year. We’ve been busy! But first, we are thrilled to share the news that we have just reached a big milestone…
It’s that time of year again, where the global education community comes together to highlight open educational practices. It’s all about celebrating successes, highlighting innovations, and sharing resources! This whole week, on the blog, we will be shining a light on what’s happening with open education at Touro. In addition to our posts, you can check out the official Open Education Week website to see what others around the country (and world!) are doing, find open resources you can use, and learn more about open education.
Welcome to our series recognizing champions of free and affordable course materials at Touro! These “Textbook Heroes” have made a difference in the lives of our students by lowering the cost of their degrees. Do you know someone who fits the bill? Nominate them (or yourself) by contacting the Libraries.
Welcome to our series recognizing champions of free and affordable course materials at Touro! These “Textbook Heroes” have made a difference in the lives of our students by lowering the cost of their degrees. Do you know someone who fits the bill? Nominate them (or yourself) by contacting the Libraries.
[Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that are free to all users. They reside in the public domain, or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.]
The Touro College OER Faculty Fellowship, sponsored by Touro College Libraries and funded by a grant from the Network of the National Library of Medicine Middle Atlantic Region, supports faculty in the health sciences and allied health fields in developing Open Educational Resources for their undergraduate and graduate students. The fellowship was awarded to five Touro Faculty members to support adopting, or creating OER for use in their courses.
Hear more about Dr. Ogunsakin’s fellowship project in his own words:
“The goals for this project were to evaluate and assess public health interventions to chronic diseases in East Harlem, a community where our campus is located. The project focuses on public health preparedness and intervention in conjunction with the activities of the student-run health clinic in the Harlem campus.
“Open Educational Resources (OER) are a valuable tool that we believe will provide the requisite platform to share our project, thoughts, ideas, findings, and conclusions with the public, especially the target community of East Harlem. OER is expected to be our window-access to the outside world and the ideal platform to share our project findings with the public.
“This project has greatly improved student participation in community outreach and intervention activities. It has also empowered the students to address health education and awareness among their potential patients and community residents. Through this project, my students and all the stakeholders have been able to assess and harness available resources for improving overall health outcomes in the community. Most importantly, every student, through this project, will come to understand the importance of health education and awareness to improving overall community health outcomes.
“Our team has submitted three abstracts that have been accepted for presentation at different conferences, seminars, and academic meetings. We are currently working on two manuscript drafts from the analyzed data on the project. These drafts are being prepared for submission in reputable journals.
“Participating in this fellowship has been one of the greatest highlights of my career in this institution, as my team have learned so much about different OER platforms out there that can be used and adapted to our project to help improve our project outcome. This was definitely a great opportunity.
“We hope to continue to partner and work with the librarians towards presenting our findings from the project to the Touro community and the general public.”
This collection was released as a free resource on the web, so you can access it any time, even when you’re not signed in to the TouroOne system. It is presented as an accessible, easy-to-navigate website, separate from ProQuest’s research databases.
Primary sources are first-hand accounts from people directly connected to a subject, event, time or place. They are invaluable to the study of history, especially when they center the voices and perspectives of those largely kept out of the historical narrative.
Black Freedom Struggle in the United States features speeches, interviews, letters, newspaper stories, government documents from the FBI and Congress, laws and court records from the era of slavery and abolitionism all the way to contemporary times, with Black Lives Matter, the high-profile killings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and many others, and the racial unrest of 2020.
The website contains approximately 1,600 documents, organized into these six eras of history:
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