Introduction to O.E.R. & the Open Textbook Library

You're invited to learn more about free and open educational resources (O.E.R.) and how they can support instruction and student access to course materials. Participants are encouraged to bring questions; no level of familiarity with O.E.R. is required. Workshops will be conducted remotely over Zoom.  This workshop will provide an introduction to open educational resources (O.E.R.) and get you started locating open

Call for Applications: Living Lab Gen Ed Seminar 2022

The seminar is designed to make General Education more visible in our classrooms and courses. Participants will explore, implement, and assess a variety of teaching practices proven to engage students using one of the four general education student goals evaluated by the AIRE in 2022-2023 AY: Oral Communication; Quantitative Literacy; Reading; Writing. A list of

Open Pedagogy: Ungrading

Please RSVP by commenting on this post. Please share this invitation with your colleagues! As higher education continues to demand rigor and productivity from its workers and students, we’re concerned with how institutional policies can better engage the material realities of many in the CUNY community. Difficulties in the classroom are compounded by ongoing investment in a “back-to-normal” paradigm that

Immersive instructional design workshop

Ten City Tech faculty will be selected to participate in a paid, virtual January immersive instructional design workshop in which they will learn about information literacy, reflect on discipline specific research practices and  Information Literacy (IL) skills, and be introduced to accessible Instructional Design (ID) principles. Participants will complete readings and participate in discussions (both

READ: Reading Effectively Across the Disciplines

In this workshop, we will share strategies designed to improve content literacy, including online annotation strategies and Creative Literacy, our new READ initiative that aims at applying high-impact creative writing pedagogy in the content classrooms. Meeting ID: 812 9601 9494 Passcode: 144401Questions: Professor Juanita But More about the program on OpenLab: READ: Reading Effectively Across the Disciplines

Pirate Queens at City Tech

In celebration of Women’s History Month in March, City Tech will be hosting an event for author Leigh Lewis and illustrator, COMD’s own Sara Gómez Woolley on their National Geographic book tour for Pirate Queens the Dauntless Women who Dared to Rule the High Seas. Join illustrator Sara Gómez Woolley and author Leigh Lewis for

41st Annual Literary Arts Festival Writing Competition

Please encourage your students to submit their work to the 41st Annual Literary Arts Festival Writing Competition! Students may submit their work at: https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/literaryartsfestival/submission-guidelines/And, save the date for the 2022 Literary Arts Festival featuring Layli Long Soldier on March 24th, 4:30 to 6:30 pm on Zoom. Layli Long Soldier is an Oglala Lakota poet whose 2017 Whereas received many

Open Pedagogy: Ungrading, Pt. 2

Last semester, we met to discuss ungrading! This is part two of a series of Open Pedagogy workshops the OpenLab Community Team is developing to address inequity in assessment and anti-racist pedagogies. For this event, we’ll be joined by co-authors of a recent article from the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy titled “Resisting Surveillance,