On the Open Road you can find:
- A 5-part series to help you Get to Know the OpenLab
- The Spotlight Archive where you can learn more about how other members of the City Tech community use the OpenLab to support their work.
Category: Community&Collaboration
A Commons for Open Learning: Voices from City Tech’s OpenLab
*This post is part of the OpenLab’s “Retrospective Series,” through which the OpenLab team and community is curating and reflecting on the ways in which the OpenLab has grown and transformed since its launch in Fall 2011. (You can check out the first two posts in the series here and here).… Continue reading this post
In the Spotlight: Entertainment Technology’s Culmination Project
As mentioned in previous posts, our theme for Open Pedagogy this semester has been Portfolio curation– the process of selecting, organizing and updating the work featured on one’s Portfolio/ ePortfolio. This week, as we return from Spring Break and inch toward the close of the semester (what?… Continue reading this post
In the Spotlight: City Tech Super HERO
This week we’re spotlighting the City Tech Super HERO’s OpenLab site. Who is our super hero? Well, she was “born in 1980 as Healthkit Educational Robot (HERO).” As the site goes on to note:
… Continue reading this post“For the next 15 years she helped countless number of students in colleges and universities across the country learn about Computer and Robotics Technology.
In the Spotlight: Open Pedagogy on the OpenLab
This week, as we prepare for our second Open Pedagogy Event of the semester, we’d like to draw your attention once again to our in-house site, Open Pedagogy on the OpenLab. This site operates as a forum where OpenLab community members can ask questions and stimulate discussion related to teaching and learning on the OpenLab and in open digital environments more generally.… Continue reading this post
In the Spotlight: The City Tech Literary Arts Festival
This week, we’re spotlighting the City Tech Literary Arts Festival’s OpenLab site. The Literary Arts Festival is “a yearly celebration of literary accomplishments among City Tech’s students, staff, faculty, and community.” The Festival features both a writing competition and a featured writer who is invited to speak.… Continue reading this post
In the Spotlight: the City Tech Library’s Copyright Module
This week we’re spotlighting the City Tech Library’s Open Educational Resources (OER) Copyright Module. The module “covers copyright basics, gives an overview of creative commons licenses, and offers some best practices for using copyrighted and library licensed materials.” This site is an invaluable resource for faculty teaching OERs specifically and working in open digital spaces more broadly.… Continue reading this post
In the Spotlight: Open Pedagogy on the OpenLab
This week, as we prepare for our first Open Pedagogy Event of the semester,
we’d like to draw your attention once again to our in-house site, Open Pedagogy on the OpenLab. This site operates as a forum where OpenLab community members can ask questions and stimulate discussion related to teaching and learning on the OpenLab and in open digital environments more generally. … Continue reading this post
In the Spotlight: First Year Learning Community Badges
When enrolling at City Tech, freshmen and transfer students can choose to participate in learning communities. As noted in the First Year Learning Communities (FYLC) OpenLab Site, FYLCs are “two or more courses with the same students enrolled, linked with an interdisciplinary theme, providing an innovative way for students to learn and form bonds with the college.… Continue reading this post
In the Spotlight: 28,000 Members and Counting!
Last semester, the OpenLab hit an impressing milestone, welcoming its 25,000th member at the start of the fall. This term, the OpenLab reached an even more impressive 28,000 members: we continue our retrospective series here, looking back at how the OpenLab has grown and evolved since its inception in 2011.… Continue reading this post
