Spring 2022

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Presenter: Vicki Lens (Social Work)

In March of 2020 we embarked on a massive experiment in online learning. Did we like it? Dislike it? Did it change the way we taught? The quality of our relationship with our students? Our class evaluations? Drawing from a survey of faculty on their online teaching experiences we look back to what we learned, how it changed us, and what we can use going forward.

12-1pm

Presenters: Sarah Ward, Jennifer Newman (Libraries), Jeff Allred (English), Jillian Báez (AFPRL)

Sometimes an assignment just needs a little tweak, and other times we realize more work needs to be done to keep it relevant and effective. In this session, our faculty panelists will unpack the assignment redesign process: they will share why they felt the need to change a course activity and how they went about it.

12-1pm

Presenters: Lacey Peters, Carmen Brown (Early Childhood)

12-1pm

Presenters: Laurie Hurson (Graduate Center), Maayan Barkan (Classical and Oriental Studies) and fellow CCI-2020 leaders Tomonori Nagano, Kazuko Saito, Shigeru Suzuki, Asako Tochika, Stefania Porcelli (Graduate Center)

The CUNY Academic Commons, CUNY’s academic social network, has become a versatile platform for establishing and maintaining connections between students, faculty, and staff – a public or private space to host your course, share resources and ideas with colleagues, offer students a venue to publish their work, or create your own academic website. Join us to (re)familiarize yourself with the Commons’ main features, learn more about some exciting recent updates, and see some examples of how colleagues are using the platform.

12-1pm

Presenters: Donna McGregor (Chemistry, Lehman College), Elizabeth Klein (Special Education), Dongshin Chang (Theatre)

In a “flipped classroom” new course content is introduced before class, so that class time can be dedicated to discussion, problem solving, and application of the material. Through active learning activities and peer instruction students gain a better conceptual understanding of the course content. In this panel long-time and more recent flipped classroom instructors will share their experiences and insights about this approach, and we will learn how the “flipped classroom” model works in different fields, class sizes, and course modalities.

12-1pm

Presenters: Kirsten Grant (Chemistry), Gabriela Smeureanu (Chemistry), Scott Gentile (Mathematics)

Past and present assessment coordinators and fellows share how assessment can be used to demonstrate and improve student learning.

12-1pm

Presenters: Marcia Liu (HCAP and AASP), Paul McPherron (English)

Research has demonstrated the powerful connection between positive student outcomes (e.g. GPA, retention, and graduation times) and college teaching activities that connect to students’ identities, race, and purpose. In this seminar, we will hear from recent participants of the HCAP Faculty Seminar Series, a series where instructors developed teaching innovations (e.g. class activity, assignment/project, teaching tool, etc) that help students develop a positive sense of their own identities, the internal motivation to complete college, and a greater sense of feeling that they belong to a community as a college student.

12-1pm

Presenters: Matt Gold (DH and English, Graduate Center), Jeff Allred (English), Luke Walzer (TLC, Graduate Center)

Enough wheels get reinvented each semester in college classrooms to reach the moon and back. Given that much of what we do as instructors lends itself to remixing, from syllabi to assignments to lesson plans and slide decks, how can we create “gift economies” in our teaching, sharing our work and borrowing/adapting others’ more widely and richly? Our panelists will discuss their ideas and experiences, with special emphasis on GitHub and the CUNY Academic Commons.

12-1pm

Presenters: Barbara Ravida (Nursing), Alexandra Plavskin (Nursing), Jason Moore (Television Radio, & Emerging Media, Brooklyn College), Ricardo Miranda (Film & Media)

The metaverse is coming, or so we heard. With renewed buzz around virtual reality and immersive technology, let’s hear from colleagues who have been using virtual reality and simulation for a while in their teaching and creative work. Panelists will share how they apply this technology in their different fields to create effective learning experiences whether the students are in person or online.

12-1pm

Presenters: Gina Riley, Kathy Furlong Silverio, Virginia Gryta (Special Education)

Choice boards are a great way to give undergraduate and graduate students choice regarding assignments, and can also be used for assessment purposes. In the first part of this workshop, we will review what choice boards are and how we use them in our classes. In the second part of the workshop, we’ll gather in breakout groups to create choice boards for immediate use in our online, hybrid, and in-person classes.

12-1pm

Presenters: Jody Polleck (Curriculum and Teaching), Joel Bloom (Office of Assessment)

12-1pm

Presenters: You all! (No formal presentations are scheduled)