On this page you will find links (and PDFs in some cases) to a variety of Open Education Resource (OER) materials. This collection is an ongoing project which includes materials I have created, adapted, or curated, as well as OER materials from other contributors and institutions.
NOTE: Only materials that are clearly marked or intended as an OER are included here and any use of such materials must adhere to any associated licensing (e.g., Creative Commons).
If you’re interested in learning more about OER and how to share and use work under a Creative Commons License, please check out these OER materials:
Open Educational Resources https://libguides.gc.cuny.edu/c.php?g=817333&p=5833597
“Creative Commons Crash Course” by Jill Cirasella http://bit.ly/cc-fellows-2022
**Please bear with me as I build out the OER and add new content**
ASSIGNMENTS
Bonus Quiz
Bonus Quiz
(socialized extra credit) 12 @ ¾ pt. each = 9 pts After each lecture there is a mini bonus quiz about the lecture taken during class—there are 12 throughout the semester. These quizzes will consist of 3 general questions about…
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Poverty Line Discussion
This activity helps students distinguish between and analyze the U.S. Official and Supplemental Poverty Measures. As a group students will determine an annual food budget, for a fictitious family, and compare this to current federal poverty guidelines. Students will describe…
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Poverty Line Exercise
An analysis of U.S. poverty thresholds—Official Poverty Measure, Supplemental Poverty Measures and NYCgov—this assignment asks students to create a poverty threshold to meet a fictitious family’s bare essential needs. Students will then critique the pros and cons of the current…
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Social Space of Public Housing
This OER provides the framework for an 8-week module that proposes a restructuring of the current URBST 222: Introduction to Urban Housing course from a lecture/exam format to a lecture/scaffolded project on social space and public housing (i.e., NYCHA). I’m…
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Urban Housing Written Report
The purpose of this assignment is to provide an opportunity for you to identify and examine a current housing-related issue or problem—this can be an issue in NYC, NYS, or elsewhere in the U.S. Through the lectures and assigned materials,…
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Environmental Psychology: Open Syllabus
Valkiria Duran-Narucki
CUNY College of Staten Island, Valkiria.Duran@csi.cuny.edu
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1039&context=si_oers
LINKS to OER COLLECTIONS
CUNY OER Collections
GC Music Teaching Hub
MIT Open Courseware
QC Pedagogies of Place
Teaching Environmental Psychology Critically (beta)*
https://tepc1beta.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
*No longer actively curated as to my knowledge
Zinn Education Project