Events – Page 8 – Open Pedagogy on the OpenLab

Recap: Exploring Research Projects on the OpenLab

Last week’s Open Pedagogy event, Exploring Research Projects on the OpenLab, was a great success, with lots of time for faculty members to explore opportunities for collaboration and research on the site. Attendees agreed on their interest in research design that sends students into the world to investigate a question, followed by opportunities to share and discuss their findings on the OpenLab. There was particular excitement about the possibility of mapping research, as Prof. Jody Rosen’s students did in her2013 course Being in Brooklyn. You can explore her students’ interactive map here.

Our final Open Pedagogy event of the semester, Getting Hands-On with Research Projects on the OpenLab, will serve as a working session to follow-up ideas that emerged from last week’s session. All faculty and staff are welcome, even those unable attend the last session, and all attendees should bring their own devices. Stay tuned, too, for a list of open pedagogy resources for research that we will share in anticipation of that event.

Join us on Th 3/17: Exploring Research Projects on the OpenLab

Exploring Research Projects on the OpenLab
Thursday, March 17, 5:00-6:30pm (N227)

Refreshments will be served.

Interested in learning more about how the OpenLab can support your research? Previous events have focused on courses, but we’re seeing more research projects appear on the OpenLab. This session showcases this exciting work happening at City Tech, and explores some of the ways faculty and staff are using the OpenLab to collaborate with colleagues and students on research projects.

Please share the invitation, and feel free to comment on this post to let your colleagues know you’re planning to come!

Part-time faculty are eligible to receive a stipend for participation.

Image credit: janneke staaks

Join us on Th 2/18: Knowing Brooklyn through Place-Based Open Digital Pedagogy

Knowing Brooklyn through Place-Based Open Digital Pedagogy

Thursday, February 18, 2016, 5:00-6:30pm (Faculty Commons, N227)

Refreshments will be served

Interested in using the OpenLab to engage with the college’s current City Tech GenEdge bird's view of the brooklyn bridge theme, Knowing Brooklyn? A companion event to this college-wide effort, this session takes a place-based approach to open digital pedagogy. Together we will think through ways to integrate place-based learning around City Tech’s Brooklyn location with open pedagogy on the OpenLab, as we design our courses, activities, and assignments. In partnership with the Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center.

Photo by The Buzz student blogger, Jean-Luc. See more here.

Part-time faculty are eligible to receive a stipend for participation.

The OpenLab at the CUNY IT Conference 2015

We had a great time presenting at the CUNY IT Conference last week, where we showcased recent OpenLab community-building innovations, including L4: Living Lab Learning Library, a faculty-generated repository for General Education assignments; Open Educational Resources; The Buzz student blog for discussion and community building among students; and Patrick Corbett’s usability study that surveyed faculty engagement and recommended best practices. Presenters also discussed the OpenLab’s new mobile-friendly design and future initiatives, including cohort-based projects and collaborations across CUNY.

Thanks to everyone who came to our presentation, and to all our excellent presenters! They were:

Jill Belli, Assistant Professor of English/OpenLab Co-Director
Cailean Cooney, Instructor, User Services Librarian
Patrick Corbett, Assistant Professor of English
Charlie Edwards, Living Lab Co-Director
Scott Henkle, Senior OpenLab Community Facilitator
Anna Matthews, Assistant Professor of Dental Hygiene/L4 Director
Andrew McKinney, Senior OpenLab Community Facilitator
Jody R. Rosen, Assistant Professor of English/OpenLab Co-Director
Laura Westengard, Assistant Professor of English/L4 Director

The presentation slides can be viewed below or downloaded as a PDF. And, please feel free to leave a comment with any questions or ideas!

Download (PDF, 3.5MB)

Join us on Th 11/12: Accessibility, Disability, and Open Digital Pedagogy

Accessibility, Disability, and Open Digital Pedagogy

Thursday, November 12, 2015, 4:30-6:00pm (Faculty Commons, N227)

*Refreshments will be served

(Please share the invitation with colleagues, and RSVP by commenting on this post)

Join faculty and staff around the college at the next Open Pedagogy event, where we will discuss issues of accessibility and disability in online communities and digital spaces. Together, we’ll explore key issues at stake and brainstorm how we, as faculty and staff, might better serve our students and each other by being aware of and competent in best practices. We will start to think through our open digital pedagogy to become more inclusive of all our members as we teach, research, collaborate, and communicate in open digital spaces. We’ll consider the following questions:

What do accessibility and disability mean and look like in online digital spaces?

What is universal design?

What are our responsibilities (ethical, legal, institutional, personal) to consider accessibility and disability, & implement changes to our pedagogy in response?

“Why is accessibility often treated as an afterthought” (Hoffman 2014)?

How can we make our work in open digital spaces more accessible?

Want to learn more about issues of accessibility / disability in open digital pedagogies? Here are a few short pieces for reference:

“Disability, Design, and the Digital Humanities” (George H. Williams, Debates in the Digital Humanities, 2012)

Recent special issue of First Monday on “Disability and the Internet” that is hot off the (digital) press, and explores a wide ranges of issues on the topic (September 2015)

“Increasing Access and Making Practice More Inclusive through Disability Awareness Training” (Carrie E. Rood and Michelle L. Damiani, Academe, September-October 2015)

“Accessibility” [From The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)]

*Image credit: Disability Symbols (Wikimedia Commons)

An invitation to an Open Pedagogy Event 10/8, 4:30-6:00

collage of doodles with 'collaborate' written in the middle.

Collaboration on the OpenLab

Thursday, October 8, 2015, 4:30-6:00pm

Faculty Commons, N227

Refreshments will be served

This Open Pedagogy event brings together those interested in teaching and learning in the open, using readily available resources either within or in conjunction with City Tech’s OpenLab. Examples of collaboration among students, and between instructor and students abound in the OpenLab’s 1000+ courses. Emerging as well are collaborations between students and peer mentors, between courses across the college, and among faculty teaching parallel sections of the same course. First-Year Learning Communities can bring two or three courses together in a single space to further facilitate community, and can bring into that community the peer mentor for further student support. Course coordinators have created community within departments through the ability to share materials for better support of instruction across sections. The same kind of openness facilitates the community of pedagogy that draws on the support of Open Educational Resources developed with the support of library faculty. Come hear about these exciting examples from colleagues and OpenLab Community Team members, and share your own.

Can’t join us but want to think more about collaboration in your pedagogy? Here are two short pieces you might read to consider best practices in project-based collaborations:

A Student Collaborators’ Bill of Rights

A Collaborators’ Bill of Rights

Please share the invitation with colleagues–and feel free to comment on this post to let your colleagues know you’re planning to come!

Image credit: Collaborate by Brenderous

The OpenLab @HASTAC 2015

Jill Belli & Jody Rosen, two of the OpenLab Co-Directors, are demoing / discussing the OpenLab at the 2015 HASTAC Conference in East Lansing, MI, May 27-30th. The theme of this year’s conference deals with the interdisciplinary nature of the digital humanities and the art & sciences, and we are exciting to bring our work at City Tech to this international network at scholars.

Our project demo, on 3:45pm EST on Thursday, May 28th, provides an overview of the OpenLab, contextualizing it within City Tech’s local context, our design principles, and pedagogical and professional development innovations.

Below are our slides (uploaded here as a PDF), so you can follow along with us virtually. We welcome questions / comments / ideas by leaving “comments” below.

Download (PDF, 6.62MB)

The OpenLab at the CUNY CUE conference

We’re excited to present at this year’s CUNY CUE conference at City College. If you can’t join us, check out our CUE Conference 2015 presentation. Our focus in this presentation is encouraging student engagement through and on the OpenLab.

Open Digital Pedagogy at ELD

The OpenLab team is facilitating a session at the Emerging Learning Design Conference at Montclair State University, so we would like to welcome colleagues from ELD 2014!

For the Open Digital Pedagogy: Creating a Game-Based Workshop, we’d love for participants to share their products with the OpenLab community. Use the format below to share your assignment ideas as comments to this post–or revise it to fit the needs of what you’ve made. We’re glad to have you join our efforts on the OpenLab!

Our three cards were

General Education Student Learning Outcome:

Open Pedagogy Technique:

Game:

Our group developed a/an [formal/informal/ group/ classroom] assignment that asks students to [what they’ll do] and then [what else they’ll do] and [finally what else they’ll do] using [specific tools, materials, skills] so they can learn [course goal] while also developing [specific and or general skills]

Thanks for playing with us!

This Thursday, 11/21, 4-6:00pm: Fostering Conversation on the OpenLab

You’ve saved the date–now let us know you can join us!

This Thursday afternoon, we’ll reconvene the group of us interested in Open Pedagogy on the OpenLab at an event focused on fostering conversation on (and with) the OpenLab. A few colleagues will briefly share some of their methods for generating and fostering conversation, and then we’ll continue our conversation by hearing from anyone who wants to share, ask questions, comment, etc. And we’ll have snacks, too! That’s where the RSVP comes it–it would be good to know how much snacking will take place. You can simply reply to this post letting us know if you can make it.

The details:

Fostering Conversation on the OpenLab

Thursday, November 21st

4:00-6:00 pm

Faculty Commons (N227)

Lively conversation plus snacks

image courtesy of Marc Wathieu

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