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

By ACERT
Topics : Events

Monday
Apr 24, 2017
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Chanin (B126 HW)

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

Presenter(s): Shelly Eversley (English & Women’s Studies, Baruch College), Matthew K. Gold (English & Digital Humanities, CUNY GC), Michael Smith (Communications Technology, York College)

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. [Details...]

News and Announcements | March 24, 2017

CUNY Conference on Undergraduate Education: The Professoriat at the Global University

By ACERT
Topics : Events

The CUNY conference on The Professoriat at the Global University will be held on April 1st, 2007 at Hunter College (68th Street campus). The conference theme asks how instructors across the CUNY system can connect their teaching and research to CUNY’s global student population.

News and Announcements | March 20, 2017

Open pedagogy event: Multimedia pedagogy across the disciplines

By ACERT
Topics : Events

Join the OpenLab Team, City Tech faculty and staff, and CUNY colleagues at the next Open Pedagogy event, where they'll be discussing the use of multimedia in open digital pedagogy.

News and Announcements | February 16, 2017

FITT 2017 – Call for Proposals

By ACERT
Topics : Opportunities

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 March 17.

News and Announcements | February 16, 2017

Apply to be an ACERT Faculty Fellow

By ACERT
Topics : Opportunities

We would like to call to your attention the opportunity to be an ACERT Faculty Fellow in 2017/2018. Each spring, ACERT invites applications from potential Faculty Fellows for the following academic year. In a year-long appointment, Fellows work with ACERT in various ways, depending on their particular expertise and inclination.

News and Announcements | February 15, 2017

Open Pedagogy on the OpenLab Event: Annotating Texts in Open Digital Pedagogy

By ACERT
Topics : Events

Join the OpenLab Team, City Tech faculty and staff, and CUNY colleagues at Openlab's Open Pedagogy event, where they'll be discussing annotating texts in open digital pedagogy. OpenLab will share tools to use for digital annotation, showcase examples of them in action, and discuss best practices for cultivating close reading and conversation in digital spaces.

News and Announcements | February 7, 2017

CUNY Research in the Classroom (RIC) Winners

By ACERT
Topics : Grants

ACERT is proud to announce that three Hunter College faculty members have been selected for funding through the CUNY Research in the Classroom (RIC) Idea Grant program.

News and Announcements | February 6, 2017

NYC Digital Humanities Week

By ACERT and Jeff Allred
Topics : Events

Today marks the first day of NYCDH Week, a week-long series of workshops, lightning talks, and social events for digital humanists of all stripes and at all skill levels. There is a kickoff gathering all day today at the CUNY GC and an exciting array of workshops and discussions on platforms, computing languages, and more general scholarly and pedagogical topics going on all week.

News and Announcements | February 2, 2017

Hookup culture on campus

By ACERT
Topics : Events

On February 8th, Lisa Wade will be discussing her book, “AMERICAN HOOKUP: The New Culture of Sex on Campus,” which explores the culture of sex found in many American college campuses today. Lisa argues that today’s hookup culture equates college with freedom, fun, and casual sex. However, there are good, bad, and even ugly sides to this type of campus life.

News and Announcements | December 21, 2016

(Call for Papers) CUNY Conference on Undergraduate Education: The Professoriat at the Global University

By ACERT
Topics : Opportunities

(Call for Papers) The CUNY Conference on Undergraduate Education is looking for submissions from CUNY instructors that explore how they connect with such a global student population while developing their own careers as teachers and scholars.