Seminar 1 | 01/14/2025
Prep Reading Required:
- Davidson, C. N., & Katopodis, C. (2022). The New College Classroom. Harvard University Press.
- City Tech General Education Committee (2012). General Education at New York City College of Technology. Retrieved from The New York City College of Technology Faculty Commons website: http://facultycommons.citytech.cuny.edu/index.php/gen-ed/
- “Value Rubrics” Association of American Colleges & Universities, AACU, 6 Nov. 2018. https://www.aacu.org/value   https://www.aacu.org/value-rubrics http://air.citytech.cuny.edu/assessment/gen-ed-assessment/gen-ed-rubrics/
- Kuh, G. D., Schneider, C. G., & Association of American Colleges and Universities (2008). High-impact educational practices: What they are, who has access to them, and why they matter. Introduction, Part 1 and Part 2. Washington, DC: Association of American Colleges and Universities.   1454076969-Kuh_HighImpactPractices_AACU_2008fullreport.
- HIEP UPDATED LIST:Â Â https://www.aacu.org/leap/hips
Prep Reading Recommended/Optional:
- Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching: “Increasing Inclusivity in the Classroom” https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/increasing-inclusivity-in-the-classroom/
Seminar 2 | 01/15/2025
Prep Reading Required :
- “What Is Open Pedagogy? – Improving Learning.” Accessed December 21, 2022. https://opencontent.org/blog/archives/2975.
- Jody A. Rosen and Maura A. Smale (2015). Open Digital Pedagogy=Critical Pedagogy. http://hybridpedagogy.org/open-digital-pedagogy-critical-pedagogy/
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University, Brock, and Ryerson University. “What Is Open Pedagogy?,” February 15, 2022. https://pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca/pdccguide/chapter/what-is-open-pedagogy/.
Optional / Follow-up Reading:
- Why teach in the open? University of British Columbia
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Teach Anywhere. “Non-Disposable Assignments,” August 24, 2020. https://teachanywhere.opened.ca/practices/non-disposable-assignments/.
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“Introduction to Open Digital Pedagogy – Teach@CUNY 2020 Online Summer Institute.” Accessed December 21, 2022. https://tcuny2020.commons.gc.cuny.edu/introduction-to-open-digital-pedagogy/.
- Open digital pedagogy – addressing student privacy concerns: City Tech OER blog: https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/oerfellowship/2019/01/22/oer-and-student-privacy/
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Open Pedagogy Notebook. “Open Pedagogy Notebook.” Accessed December 21, 2022. https://openpedagogy.org/.
Seminar 3 | 01/16/2025
Prep Reading Required
- McMurtrie, B. (2024) Is this the end of reading. Students are less able and less willing to read. Professors are stymied. Chronicle of Higher Education.
- Data Analysis Research Experience (DARE) Project Co-Investigators.
Dr. Esther Wilder (Lehman College), Dr. Eduardo Vianna (LaGuardia Community College), and Dr. Rebecca West (Lehman College). - Steen, L. A. (2004). Everything I needed to know about averages . . . I learned in college.
Peer Review, 6(4), 4-8 - Wiest, L. R., Higgins, H. J., & Frost, J. H. (2007). Quantitative literacy for social justice. In University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Education, Equity & Excellence in Education (Vol. 40, pp. 47–55).
- Carless, D. & Boud, D. (2018). The development of student feedback literacy: enabling uptake of feedback. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 43(8), 1315–1325. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2018.1463354.
- Suskie, L. Fair Assessment Practices: Giving Students Equitable Opportunities to Demonstrate Learning. Adventures in Assessment, Volume 14 (Spring 2002), SABES/World Education, Boston, MA, Copyright 2002. Fair Assessment Practices_Suskie
Prep Reading Recommended/Optional:
- Cumming, Tammie, and M. David Miller. “Academic Assessment: Best Practices for Successful Outcomes with Accreditation Evaluation Teams.” New Directions for Community Colleges, vol. 2019, no. 186, 2019, pp. 81–93. Chapter 11 Link: Cumming_et_al-2019-New_Directions_for_Community_Colleges
- Finley A. & McNair T. (2013) Assessing Underserved Students’ Engagement in High-Impact Practices. Association of American Colleges and Universities. Retrieved from https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED582014.pdf
Seminar 5Â | 01/22/2025
Prep Reading Required:
- Museum of Food and Drink
- Free Access to The New York Times
https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/library/get-free-access-to-the-new-york-times/ - LaGroce, T. ( 2024, December 28). How the head of a food museum spends her Sundays. The New York Times
- Ortiz, D.A. (2024, January 18). How a 12-year-old boy made vanilla a global spice,BBC. https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240118-the-little-known-truth-about-vanilla
- Lee, Y. Decolonizing food: An antidote to oppression. Womanly.https://www.womanlymag.com/issue-no-6/decolonizing-food-an-antidote-to-oppression
- Goodlad, K. & Leonard (2018)  Place-Based Learning across the Disciplines: A Living Laboratory Approach to Pedagogy.  InSight, 13(1), 150–164.
Prep Reading Recommended/Optional:
- Gruenewald, David A. “The Best of Both Worlds: A Critical Pedagogy of Place.” Educational Researcher 32, no. 4 (2003): 3-12. Accessed January 10, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/3700002. Critical Pedagogy and Place-based Learning
- Montgomery J.A. (2020) Learning Places: Place-Based Learning in an Interdisciplinary Approach to Undergraduate Research. In: Lansiquot R.D. (eds) Interdisciplinary Team Teaching. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56302-8_4 Chapter_4_Learning_Places_Montgomery_20200414_revised draft
- Phillip, S. (2020) Using Monuments to Teach About Racism, Colonialism, and Sexism. In: Lansiquot R., MacDonald S. (eds.) Interdisciplinary Team Teaching: A Collaborative Study of High-Impact Practices. Palgrave.
- Living Lab Third Year Report_Final_abridged_20190320Â This is a section of the report that Anna, Andleeb Zameer, and I wrote to review and summarize the findings of the Third Year Living Lab Fellows during the grant period. This reading builds a narrative starting with Gen Ed and building to Place-based Learning as a potent teaching strategy for a broad range of learning at City Tech.
- Chin T., Swift C. (2019) Mapping Urban Performance Culture: A Common Ground for Architecture and Theater. In: Lansiquot R., MacDonald S. (eds) Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Virtual Place-Based Learning. Palgrave Pivot, Cham 2020_Mapping Urban Performance
- Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching: “What is service learning or community engagement?” https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/teaching-through-community-engagement/
Further Reading
- Suskie, L. Using Assessment Results to Inform Teaching
Practice and Promote Lasting Learning. In G. Joughin (ed.), Assessment, Learning and Judgement in Higher Education. Springer ScienceþBusiness Media B.V. 2009 Suskie-2009 Using Assessment Results To Inform - Eyler, J. (2009, January 1). The Power of Experiential Education. LIBERAL EDUCATION -WASHINGTON DC: 95(4), 24–31. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ871318.pdf.
- Steele, C.M. Whistling Vivaldi: how stereotypes affect us and what we can do. Chapter 11. Whistling Vivaldi – Chapter 11
- Barnes, Elizabeth, and Tasha Souza. “Intercultural Dialogue Partners: Creating Space for Difference and Dialogue.” Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning, Magna Publications, 31 Jan. 2019, www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-and-learning/intercultural-dialogue-partners-creating-space-for-difference-and-dialogue/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=email_this&utm_source=email.
- Banta, T. and Palomba, C. (2015) Assessment Essentials: Planning, Implementing and Improving Assessment in Higher Education, 2nd Edition, Wiley Jossey-Bass.
- cc20359 (Cumming)
- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cc.20359
- But, J. C. (Ed.). (2020). Teaching College-Level Disciplinary Literacy: Strategies and Practices in STEM and Professional Studies. Springer Nature.
- Montgomery, Jason A., and Anne E. Leonard. 2021. “The City as a Learning Lab: Using Historical Maps and Walking Seminars to Anchor Place-Based Research.” In Engaging Undergraduates in Primary Source Research, edited by Lijuan Xu, 59-68. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield.
- Kraus, Amanda. Disabled Students Need Equity, Not Just Access. AAC&U Magazine. Summer 2021. https://www.aacu.org/article/disabled.