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Open Educational Resource Library
The Public Interest Technology University Network
Explore open educational resources (OER) for faculty, practitioners and anyone interested in public interest technology (PIT), including:
- Syllabi, curricula, modules, presentations, and course guides
- Data dashboards, research frameworks and examples of PIT projects
- Final reports and case studies illustrating key strategies and lessons for building PIT programs and community partnerships
- Materials for internship and fellowship programs, career fairs and hackathons
All OER in this library were created by members of PIT-UN, a 63-university network cultivating the field of PIT, which has gained widespread recognition and support in academia, government, civil society and industry since PIT-UN’s founding in 2019.
The projects here are funded by the Network Challenge, an annual grantmaking program to drive equitable innovation in technology. The Network Challenge is open only to PIT-UN Members, and projects fall into four Focus Areas critical to building the field.
The OER are hosted on SkillsCommons, a free and open online library supporting a wide range of higher education and career technology programs. All materials are free to share and adapt with attribution under the terms of Creative Commons BY 4.0.
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Featured Projects
Advanced Technology in Society and the Public Interest (ATS-PI). Zingale, Nicholas. Cleveland State University, 2021. This interdisciplinary graduate certificate and fellowship created new curricula, convened an international forum and connected graduate students to high-level, interdisciplinary research projects on advanced technologies.
Data Science for Public Service Consortium. Searcy, Cynthia. Georgia State University, 2021. The project supported the work of the Data Science for Public Service Consortium (DS4PS), faculty representing ten schools of public affairs, aiming to deepen institutional capacity to offer courses in the technical skills and ethical foundations needed to effectively harness the promise of PIT in the public and nonprofit sectors. It built open-source data science curricula appropriate for graduate students in public affairs, and made progress in formalizing the consortium to scale PIT educational opportunities in public affairs and build clear career pathways to the public sector.
Developing Equity-Focused, Community-Led PIT Curricula. Fox, Sara ; Skirpan, Michael ; Eslami, Motahhare ; Shen, Hong. Carnegie Mellon University, 2021. Created curricular materials for PIT-related courses alongside communities that are systematically left out of conversations about technologies impacting them. In doing so, we built shared resources and extended the repertoire of PIT approaches taken up within our own educational institution as well as others.
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SkillsCommons Tip Sheet
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- What’s in the library
- Library organization
- How to start searching
- FAQ’s on OER and licensing
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- The definition of PIT
- Examples of PIT in action
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