Archive | Technology

Event Capsules | April 2, 2018

ACERT Event Capsule – Focus on Faculty Innovations in Teaching with Technology (FITT)

By ACERT
Topics : Grants, Opportunities, Technology

In this Event Capsule, Iris Finkel, Steven Kowalik, Steve Foglia, and Todd Miller recap their presentations at a March 6, 2018 Lunchtime Seminar. They highlight their own FITT projects, and discuss the work they've accomplished through their participation in the FITT program.

Evidence-Based Instruction: Emerging Best Practices for Effective Teaching & Learning

By ACERT
Topics : Assessment, Course design, Discussion, Pedagogy, Rich media & presentation tools

Wednesday
Oct 4, 2017
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
1203 HE

Evidence-Based Instruction: Emerging Best Practices for Effective Teaching & Learning

Presenter(s): Manashi Chatterjee (Chemistry)

This TSC will consist of a series of workshops in which we will discuss the development of engaging classroom activities. During this series, we will discuss and explore teaching strategies that have been shown to lead to increased student interest, more active student participation, and better faculty teacher evaluations. [Details...]

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.

Module-making camp: Day 1

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

Monday
Jun 5, 2017
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
C105 HN

Module-making camp: Day 1

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

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. [Details...]

News and Announcements | May 3, 2017

Register for “Module-making camp”

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

What We’re Reading | January 12, 2017

Hillary Clinton and beyond

By ACERT
Topics : Assignments & exams, Online writing and reflection, Student Engagement

Professor Wendy Hayden's (English) rhetoric course, Hillary Clinton and Beyond, explored rhetoric in the context of the recent election. The course experimented with a crowdsourced syllabus in which Wendy chose the readings for the first four classes of the semester and then turned the syllabus over to the students. By the end of the semester, her course uncovered answers to some of the guiding questions about Clinton and the power of rhetoric.

Teaching Tips | December 8, 2016

Teaching fails

By ACERT
Topics : Online writing and reflection

During an ACERT Lunchtime Seminar, Laura W. Kane and Sarah Ruth Jacobs introduced the aims and editorial guidelines of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, which is a collaborative effort between 23 faculty members, graduate students, and academic staff at CUNY and other institutions.