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
Category: Faculty Resources
In the Spotlight: Nursing Case Management- Role and Process (NUR4030)
This week, we’re spotlighting Professor Thomas’ NUR4030 OER, Case Management: Role and Process. The course “focuses on innovative, integrated nursing case and care management models within the context of assessment, planning, collaboration, negotiation, and evaluation.” The course site is clean, simple, and well-organized, and is a great example an OpenLab OER. … Continue reading this post
In the Spotlight: Add to My Portfolio
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On the OpenLab, you can build your online portfolio, creating a personal site on which you display digital representations of your academic work, interests, and achievements. If you are a City Tech student, you may already have done this as part of your coursework. … Continue reading this post
In the Spotlight: Mat1275 Algebra and Trigonometry Template
This week, we spotlight the Mat1275 template course, which the Math department created to facilitate resource-sharing and cloning of the course among instructors. Such resource-sharing is a key way the OpenLab can help support open teaching and learning. Below, we focus on how the template site is built.… Continue reading this post
In the Spotlight: Introduction to Accessibility
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This semester, we are focusing on the theme of access. How can open, digital pedagogies improve student access to learning? How can we ensure course materials and pedagogical resources are accessible to all students? The library’s module, Introduction to Accessibility, provides useful guidelines.… Continue reading this post
In the Spotlight: Technical Writing (ENG 2575- E270)
This week, we’re spotlighting Professor Ellis’ ENG 2575 Technical Writing course. In the class, students will have “opportunities to learn the theory, skills, and heuristics of technical writing through projects relevant” to their degree program. The course encourages students to write often, and with intention.… Continue reading this post
In the Spotlight: Privacy in Open Learning
Happy second week of school to all City Tech faculty, students, and staff! At the start of every semester, hundreds of members of the City Tech community join the OpenLab for the very first time. If that’s your case, welcome! We want to take the start of the semester to go over the ins-and-outs of privacy in open learning.… Continue reading this post
Welcome Back & Fall 2019 Programming
Welcome back to all City Tech faculty, students, and staff! As you all sink into your semesterly routines, we want to take a moment to highlight the different ways we’re here to support your work on the OpenLab this semester.
Fall 2019 Drop-in Office Hours
Meet with a member of the OpenLab Community Team for face-to- face support.… Continue reading this post
In the Spotlight: Gothic Literature and Visual Culture (ENGL 3407-D613)
A few weeks ago, we spotlighted Prof. Blain’s Writing in the Workplace course site. This site offered great ideas for how to organize student writing assignments. This week, we spotlight another well-organized, creative and visually compelling writing-intensive course: Prof. Westengard’s Gothic Literature and Visual Culture (ENGL 3407-D613).… Continue reading this post
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
