Archive | Pedagogy

News and Announcements | December 15, 2017

OPEN LAB: OER – Low Cost Alternative or New Model for Learning?

By ACERT
Topics : Events, Open Educational Resources, Opportunities

On Wednesday, December 20, 2017, from 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm, panOpen is hosting an Open Lab at NY EDTECH WEEK on Open Educational Resources (OER) — and you are invited!

Readings about Race: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure

By ACERT
Topics : Discussion

Wednesday
Jan 3, 2018
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
1203 HE

Readings about Race: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure

Presenter(s): Jessie Daniels (Sociology)

Most in higher education value a diverse workforce and professoriate, but universities continue to struggle hiring, supporting, and retaining faculty of color. In this TSC, we will discuss how faculty learn to balance political activism, community engagement, and the demands of tenure in our fractured political times. [Details...]

Readings about Race: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure

By ACERT
Topics : Discussion

Tuesday
Jan 3, 2017
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
1203 HE

Readings about Race: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure

Presenter(s): Jessie Daniels (Sociology)

Readings about Race: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure

By ACERT
Topics : Discussion, Events

Tuesday
Jan 3, 2017
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
1203 HE

Readings about Race: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure

Presenter(s): Jessie Daniels (Sociology)

Most in higher education value a diverse workforce and professoriate, but universities continue to struggle hiring, supporting, and retaining faculty of color. In this TSC, we will read and discuss selections from Patricia Matthew’s edited volume Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure, and consider how the issues raised by the book’s contributors relate to the experiences of faculty at Hunter. [Details...]

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.

Teaching Tips | October 30, 2017

Painting of a multi‑mast sailing ship battling rough ocean waves under a dark, stormy sky.

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.

News and Announcements | October 27, 2017

CUNY Academic Commons OER Faculty Teaching Fellowships

By ACERT
Topics : Fellowships, Open Educational Resources

The CUNY Academic Commons (CAC), in collaboration with the Graduate Center’s Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) and the Graduate Center Library, seeks applications for up to ten CUNY Academic Commons Open Educational Resources (OER) Faculty Teaching Fellowships for the Spring 2018 semester. Full-time, adjunct, and Graduate Teaching Fellow faculty who will be teaching at a CUNY campus in Spring 2018 are all eligible for this fellowship.

ACERT Connections | October 24, 2017

Landscape photograph of a valley with patchwork fields, winding paths, and clustered buildings beside a lake, framed by steep mountains under a soft sky.

Hunter Taskscapes

By ACERT and Jeff Allred
Topics : Student Engagement

This week, ACERT invited two CUNY colleagues to campus, Maura Smale (Head Librarian, City Tech) and Mariana Regalado (Library, Brooklyn College). They presented their work on what they call, borrowing from social anthropologist Tim Ingold, the “taskscapes” of students from several CUNY campuses (including Hunter’s).

Event Capsules | October 24, 2017

ACERT Event Capsule – Student Taskscapes: Understanding CUNY Undergraduates’ Lived Experiences

By ACERT
Topics : Student Engagement

In this Event Capsule, Mariana Regalado (Brooklyn College Library) and Maura Smale (City Tech Library) discuss their presentations at an October 17th Lunchtime Seminar.

Event Capsules | October 20, 2017