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Connect OER

Open Education

State University of New York

New Paltz, NY, United States
Official Website • @suny

Type: Public 4-Year
Annual Enrollment: 7,692

  SPARC Member  

OER Webpage

Overview

The State University of New York is the largest comprehensive system of higher education in the United States, and more than 95 percent of all New Yorkers live within 30 miles of any one of SUNY’s 64 colleges and universities. Across the system, SUNY has four academic health centers, five hospitals, four medical schools, two dental schools, the state’s only college of optometry, and manages one US Department of Energy National Laboratory. As of Fall 2019, more than 415,500 students were enrolled in a degree-granting program at a SUNY campus. In total, SUNY serves about 1.3 million students in credit-bearing courses and programs, continuing education, and community outreach programs. SUNY oversees nearly a quarter of academic research in New York. Research expenditures system-wide exceeded $1.7 billion in fiscal year 2019, including significant contributions from students and faculty. There are three million SUNY alumni worldwide, and one in three New Yorkers with a college degree is a SUNY alum.

SUNY OER Services (SOS) operates as part of SUNY’s Office of Library and Information Services. SOS works directly with SUNY campuses and faculty to provide assistance and knowledge to support the adoption of open educational resources (OER) and sustained use of OER as drivers of faculty choice and student success.

This includes offering a ready-to-adopt course catalog, facilitating the seamless integration of openly-licensed content into learning management systems, the remixing of openly-licensed content from various sources, the offline (print) production of learning materials, as well as the services and resources of our partners.

Campus Details

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OER Programs

SUNY OER Community Courses

The SUNY OER Community Courses introduces the fundamental principles and effective practices related to Open Educational Resources. Throughout this learning space, there is the opportunity to explore and discuss methods and approaches to finding, adopting, customizing, integrating, creating, publishing, and licensing OER. Opportunities to converse with your peers, and work with OER advocates from the SUNY community who can help you along your learning journey are all part of the SUNY OER Community Course experience.

Program Type:

Duration: 09/2018 - Present

Program Webpage: https://innovate.suny.edu/sunyoercommunitycourse/

Scope: OER (open course content)

Primary OER Strategy: OER Awareness

Secondary OER Strategies: OER Adaptation, OER Adoption, OER Curation, OER Pedagogy, OER Publication, OER Review/Assessment, OER Research

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Conditions: Recipients are encouraged to openly license and freely share resources created or adapted


Point of Contact

Michael Daly
Director of Operations, SUNY OER Services
@MikeD_SUNYOER