Archive | Course design

Module-making Camp: Day 1

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

Monday
Jun 4, 2018
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
C105 HN

Module-making Camp: Day 1

Presenter(s): Shiao-Chuan Kung (ICIT) & Nancy Guerrero (ICIT)

Participate in 2.5-day camp on building or refreshing your hybrid or online courses in June. 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. [Details...]

Module-making Camp: Day 3

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

Wednesday
Jan 10, 2018
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
C105 HN

Module-making Camp: Day 3

Presenter(s): Shiao-Chuan Kung (ICIT) & Nancy Guerrero (ICIT)

Participate in 2.5-day camp on building or refreshing your hybrid or online courses in January. 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. [Details...]

Module-making Camp: Day 2

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

Tuesday
Jan 9, 2018
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
C105 HN

Module-making Camp: Day 2

Presenter(s): Shiao-Chuan Kung (ICIT) & Nancy Guerrero (ICIT)

Event Capsules | November 13, 2017

ACERT Event Capsule – Close Looking and Teaching Students to Read Images – Part 1

By ACERT
Topics : Course design, Library, Student Engagement

In this Event Capsule, Sarah Ward, Stephanie Margolin, and Mason Brown (Library) discuss their work with the SEEK Summer Bridge students, in which students look closely at and ask questions about comic panels and pages as an introduction to the research process.

Event Capsules | October 20, 2017

ACERT Event Capsule – Active Learning is Lecturing⁻¹

By ACERT
Topics : Assessment, Course design, Discussion, Lectures, Map to assessments, Student Engagement

In this Event Capsule, Malcolm Campbell, Professor of Biology from Davidson College, discusses his October 10th presentations at Hunter College.

The Cure for Discussion Board Fatigue: VoiceThread for Flipped, Hybrid, and Online Classes

By ACERT
Topics : Course design, Online classes, Rich media & presentation tools

Monday
Jan 22, 2018
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Online - register for details

The Cure for Discussion Board Fatigue: VoiceThread for Flipped, Hybrid, and Online Classes

Presenter(s): George Haines

Join us for an online workshop led by George Haines, VoiceThread's instructional designer. George will show us how to create VoiceThread assignments in our Blackboard environment. He will also share examples of VoiceThread used in engaging, student-centered assignments from a variety of disciplines and instructional modalities. [Details...]

Open Educational Resources and Zero Cost Courses: Principles and Practices

By ACERT
Topics : Course design, Open Educational Resources

Thursday
Oct 26, 2017
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
1203 HE

Open Educational Resources and Zero Cost Courses: Principles and Practices

Presenter(s): Christa Acampora (Provost’s Office), Cailean Cooney (City Tech Library), Shiao-Chuan Kung (ICIT), Adam McMahon (Political Science), Aine Zimmerman (German)

This panel will present and open discussion on the principles and practices of using OER and creating zero cost courses at Hunter. Panelists will present examples of OER materials already in use, and participants will have a chance to discuss their own ideas and plans for using OER in their courses. [Details...]

Close Looking and Teaching Students to Read Images

By ACERT
Topics : Course design, Pedagogy

Tuesday
Oct 31, 2017
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
1203 HE

Close Looking and Teaching Students to Read Images

Presenter(s): Mason Brown (Library), Caitlin Henningsen (The Frick Collection), Stephanie Margolin (Library), Kaitlin Mondello (English), Sarah Ward (Library)

As instructors, we often use images to add context and detail to our core content, but images and visual culture have become more central to our daily lives and can be used as the primary text in classroom lessons and teaching activities. This panel will present innovative research and pedagogical projects that help students learn to read, understand, and apply meaning-making strategies to understand and "read" images. [Details...]

Active Learning is Lecturing⁻¹

By ACERT
Topics : Course design, Student Engagement

Tuesday
Oct 10, 2017
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
1203 HE

Active Learning is Lecturing⁻¹

Presenter(s): Malcolm Campbell (Biology, Davidson College)

Are we doing everything we can in our classes to maximize student learning? In this workshop, Malcolm Campbell, Professor of Biology from Davidson College, will highlight evidence-based, active learning teaching methods that empower students to construct their own knowledge, better retain class information, and achieve success in our courses. [Details...]