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Tool Talk | October 6, 2016

Presentation slide titled “Student Directed Teaching Using iPads with AirServer,” showing chemistry problem examples for “Group A – Missing formal charge” and “Group B,” alongside text: “Acid-Base Reactions,” “Providing formative Assessment,” and “Helps Reinforce Conceptual Understanding.”

Enhancing student engagement using Airserver

By ACERT and Manashi Chatterjee
Topics : Assess student work, Data visualization, Lectures, Mobile apps and devices, Student Engagement

Traditional methods of teaching organic chemistry via lecture do not provide active learning opportunities for students. Instead, meaningful learning occurs when students are encouraged to participate and work on problems rather than waiting to copy instructors’ answers. We report how the use of “iPad with AirServer” in an organic chemistry lecture course can make student thinking visible.

Assess It! | September 29, 2016

Presenter gestures toward a research poster on an easel during a conference or workshop session.

Assessment in Action in Hunter’s learning communities

By ACERT and John Taylor Pell
Topics : Assessment

A project conceived by the 2014-2015 Assessment Fellows made an appearance at the ACRL Assessment in Action poster session at the annual meeting of the American Library Association this summer. The project was an effort to activate Hunter’s learning communities by fostering deeper collaboration between faculty in the library and in the first-year writing program.

News and Announcements | September 13, 2016

Triangular design of overlapping blue, green, and yellow shapes pointing right.

PressForward Workshops

By ACERT
Topics : Uncategorized

Join the Library Association of CUNY, the Graduate Center’s Teaching and Learning Center, the Graduate Center Digital Initiatives, and the Borough of Manhattan Community College’s Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship, to learn new ways to gather content from the open web and to share it using PressForward.

News and Announcements | May 23, 2016

Digital Pedagogy Prizes

By ACERT
Topics : Assignments & exams, ePortfolios, Online writing and reflection, Rich media & presentation tools

This semester, ACERT organized two new prizes to call attention to some of the innovative and exciting work happening at Hunter in the area of digital pedagogy: a Faculty Assignment Prize and a Student Digital Writing Prize. Here, we would like to share with you a small sample of the winning projects.

News and Announcements | May 20, 2016

ACERT Steering Committee members receive 2016 Presidential Awards

By ACERT
Topics : Awards

ACERT is proud to announce that Faculty Fellow Laura Baecher and Steering Committee member Sandi Clarkson are among the recipients of the 2016 Presidential Awards for Excellence.

What We’re Reading | April 19, 2016

Tube labeled “Glue” with adhesive dispensing from the nozzle.

Make It Stick

By ACERT, Mark Bobrow, Stephanie Margolin and Meredith Reitman
Topics : Assess student work, Assignments & exams, Course design

Members of the ACERT community share their responses to "Make It Stick." This book challenges conventional thinking about student learning, with a particular focus on how inefficient and unproductive strategies and practices are often reinforced by educators.

News and Announcements | April 14, 2016

Day of DigPed: Workshop topic announced

By ACERT
Topics : Events

ACERT will be hosting a workshop on creating open access digital books as part of our May 3 Day of Digital Pedagogy. This hands-on workshop, led by Jack Dougherty (Professor of Educational Studies, Trinity College), will feature the open-source Pressbooks platform, a WordPress derivative that generates books in multiple formats.

News and Announcements | April 7, 2016

Exploring Student Learning: Assessment Day 2016

By ACERT and Meredith Reitman
Topics : Events

Join us at our second annual Assessment Day, featuring presentations from Hunter's cohort of seven Assessment Fellows, each of whom is experimenting with ways to explore their students’ learning.

News and Announcements | March 28, 2016

Day of DigPed: Digital Pedagogy Prizes

By ACERT
Topics : Awards

Submit an entry for the Day of DigPed Faculty Assignment Prize. Encourage your students to submit entries for the Student Writing Prize.

News and Announcements | March 25, 2016

FITT deadline extended to April 1

By ACERT
Topics : Awards

Faculty Innovations in Teaching and Technology (FITT) is a competitive program for faculty seeking to enhance student learning in innovative ways. We invite Hunter faculty to submit FITT proposals by April 1.