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| August 16, 2017

The CUNY Games Conference 4.0: The Interactive Course

The CUNY Games Network of the City University of New York is excited to announce The CUNY Games Conference 4.0: The Interactive Course to be held on January 22 and 23, 2018 at the CUNY Graduate Center and the Borough of Manhattan Community College in New York City.

News and Announcements | August 8, 2017

Lumen Learning Webinars: OER Course Walkthroughs

By ACERT
Topics : Course design, Opportunities

For those of you interested in an OER “out of the box” option that may ease you in to the fall semester, Lumen Learning is hosting webinars for SUNY and CUNY faculty members to walk through several of the OER courses most widely-used in US higher education.

Assess It! | May 17, 2017

Diagnoses from the Quantitative Reasoning Fellows

By ACERT and Robert Cowan
Topics : Assess student work, Assessment, Identify outcomes, Map to assessments

At the May 3, 2017 Assessment Breakfast, Hunter’s 2016-17 Quantitative Reasoning Fellows (QRFs), Ernesto Garcia, Richard Gustavson, and Rachel Perlin presented “Using Diagnostic Exams to Run Semester-Long Assessment.”

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.

Event Capsules | May 3, 2017

ACERT Event Capsule – Online course development: First takes

By ACERT
Topics : Course design, Online classes

In this event capsule, Irene Morrison-Moncure and Jared Simard discuss taking their courses online. They share the educational tools they used, and give suggestions for faculty members interested in developing online courses of their own.

News and Announcements | May 3, 2017

Register for “Module-making camp”

By ACERT
Topics : Asynchronous teaching, Course design, Learning management systems, Online meetings

On June 5 – 7, 2017, we invite you to participate in a 2.5-day camp on building or refreshing your hybrid or online courses. We will work intensively to support you as you design one online learning module for a course you will be teaching in a future semester.

News and Announcements | May 1, 2017

Teach@CUNY event, May 8th

By ACERT
Topics : Events

Don’t miss this upcoming all-day event with a wide range of panels on pedagogy from CUNY faculty, students, and staff.

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.

Event Capsules | April 5, 2017

ACERT Event Capsule – Serious play: Games in the classroom

By ACERT
Topics : Course design, Student Engagement

We often think of play as the opposite of the work that we do in the classroom as teachers or students. However, in this Event Capsule, Leah Potter and Jeff Allred discuss using games to transform their pedagogy.

News and Announcements | April 5, 2017

Knowledge Without Walls: The ethos of openness in research and teaching

By ACERT
Topics : Events

ACERT is pleased to host three CUNY colleagues whose work embodies the spirit of openness in scholarship and teaching. “Open” is a multivalent and emerging concept in scholarship and teaching. Openness, in this sense might point to: authors’ protection of readers’ right to share work via a Creative Commons license; Web 2.0 affordances that invite readers to comment or annotate critical texts; teachers’ creation of free course materials to replace expensive textbooks and thus make education more accessible for economically burdened students.