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Open Infrastructure for Open Education: Working with Commons In A Box OpenLab
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Speaker
Charlie Edwards
OpenLab Co-Director and Commons In A Box OpenLab Co-Project Director, City Tech, CUNY
New York City College of Technology
Full Abstract
Over ten years ago, faculty and technologists at New York City College of Technology, CUNY, created the OpenLab at City Tech, a WordPress-based open platform for teaching, learning, and collaboration that everyone at the college can use. Since then, it has become a vital hub of activity for the City Tech community, serving more than 41,000 members to date, and advancing open educational practices across the college. Commons In A Box OpenLab is free and open source software that enables anyone to launch an OpenLab and customize it to meet the needs of their community. It is built and sustained through a partnership between teams at three CUNY campuses – City Tech, The Graduate Center, and Borough of Manhattan Community College – in collaboration with an enthusiastic community of OpenLab-ers at CUNY, SUNY, and beyond. In this workshop you will learn about the platform, explore example uses, and imagine how they might apply in your context; we will also discuss the benefits and challenges of using, building, and supporting open infrastructure for open education, and lessons learned along the way.
Biography
Charlie Edwards (she/her/hers) is a scholar-practitioner who works to advance the creation and use of open infrastructure for open education. She is a Co-Director of the OpenLab at City Tech (https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/), an open platform for teaching, learning, and collaboration developed by and for New York City College of Technology, CUNY. She is also Project Co-Director of Commons In A Box OpenLab (https://cboxopenlab.org/), free and open source software that enables other groups and institutions to launch OpenLabs of their own. Before coming to CUNY in 2011, she spent two decades in technology consulting. Now her goal is to help build a more open university that encourages and supports practices of openness, sharing, and collaboration. She is also pursuing a PhD in English at The Graduate Center, CUNY.
Session Notes
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