Blog Feature Archives: Teaching Tips

Event Capsules, Teaching Tips, Tool Talk | August 13, 2021

The ACERT and Center for Online Learning Resources and Tool Kit

By ACERT
Topics : Assignments & exams, Asynchronous teaching, Course design, Discussion, Group work, Hunter Resources, Hybrid classes, Lectures, Online classes, Online writing and reflection, Pedagogy, Polling & testing tools, Social and sharing, Technology

A selection of recent resources created by ACERT and the Center for Online Learning for your online, hybrid, or in-person classes.

Teaching Tips | August 24, 2020

Resources from Summer 2020 Faculty Working Groups

By ACERT
Topics : Asynchronous teaching, Discussion, Hybrid classes, Lectures, Online classes, Pedagogy

We provide links to resources that came out of the faculty working group meetings. In particular, the two faculty leaders of the Active Learning group, Julie Van Peteghem and Jeff Allred, compiled a robust group of resources in folders on a shared Dropbox site.

Teaching Tips | March 31, 2020

Best Practices In Online Teaching

By ACERT
Topics : Uncategorized

The COVID crisis has created an “emergency” online teaching situation for faculty. This post contains insights gained by Gina Riley (SOE) in her many years teaching online courses and by Shiao-Chuan Kung (Center for Online Learning) in her many years helping Hunter professors design online courses.

Teaching Tips | January 17, 2019

Open Educational Resources at Hunter Libraries

By ACERT
Topics : Course design, Hunter Resources, Library, Open Educational Resources

Finding Open Educational Resources (textbooks, courseware, and ancillary materials which can be freely used, reused, and remixed) can be a daunting task. Adding to this frustration is the fact that OERs are as diverse as the disciplines which seek to employ them. There is no “one size fits all” OER. Enter the Hunter Library’s OER office and our showcase OER repository Open Educational Resources (OER): A Libguide. Though digital pedagogy, digital tools, and OER materials represent a paradigm shift in the way education is provided, the library continues to be the faculty’s guide to available resources and information technologies.

Teaching Tips | October 30, 2017

Pedagogy and/as Play: “Playing” a Novel via Ivanhoe for WordPress

By ACERT and Jeff Allred
Topics : Events, Student Engagement

Jeff Allred details his adaption of Billy Budd into a Wordpress-based role-playing game and how it engaged his students. His project will also be featured as part of a "digital panel" at the American Studies Association conference in early November.

Teaching Tips | May 10, 2017

Nothing Succeeds Like Failure

By ACERT and Jeff Allred
Topics : Student Engagement, Technology

Narrative of instructive failed assignment as part of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy’s wonderful Teaching Fails feature.

Teaching Tips | April 19, 2017

Mentoring college students for graduate study

By ACERT and Keith R. Okrosy
Topics : Student Engagement, Student Services

Keith Okrosy from Student Affairs/Career Development Services lays out a wide range of resources available to Hunter students interested in graduate study.

Teaching Tips | March 27, 2017

Serious play: Games in the classroom

By ACERT
Topics : Course design, Learning outside the classroom, Student Engagement

Learn about some of the major themes and fascinating projects covered in last Tuesday's Lunchtime Seminar.

Teaching Tips | March 15, 2017

Embodied and mindful teaching

By ACERT
Topics : Student Engagement

Alyson Greenfield (English Department) employs “unconventional” teaching methods to enliven the classroom and student experience as a whole.

Teaching Tips | December 8, 2016

Teaching fails

By ACERT
Topics : Online writing and reflection

During an ACERT Lunchtime Seminar, Laura W. Kane and Sarah Ruth Jacobs introduced the aims and editorial guidelines of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, which is a collaborative effort between 23 faculty members, graduate students, and academic staff at CUNY and other institutions.