This week weâre spotlighting the recent issue of the Nucleus (Winter, 2017), our Faculty Commons Quarterly. This seasonâs issue features pieces from faculty about the creative ways theyâve used the OpenLab in the context of their courses and/or research. Specifically, faculty discuss engaging students through creative and interactive assignments that incorporate multiple forms of media and dialogue, how the open and archival aspects of the OpenLab enable past students to share tips and strategies with newer students despite never meeting in person, how course sites can act as nodes in larger networks of resources that may benefit students academically, professionally, or otherwise, how to carry out collaborative student-faculty research projects, and how other innovative learning resources such as OERs and WeBWorks enrich students learning AND can help keep educational costs down for students.… Continue reading this post
Tag: Student-faculty partnerships
In the Spotlight: City Tech Women Engineers Club
This week weâre spotlighting the City Tech Womenâs Engineer Club. This club provides an exciting opportunity for City Tech students to connect and collaborate with their peers as well as faculty members on projects and events around campus and the larger metro area.… Continue reading this post
In the Spotlight: Energy and Environmental Simulation Laboratory
This week weâre spotlighting City Techâs Energy and Environmental Simulation Laboratory (EESL). EESL is a research group organized by Professor Masato R. Nakamura in the Mechanical Engineering Department at City Tech. Though a research group, this group is open to anyone interested in conducting research on energy, environmental engineering and computing for sustainability.… Continue reading this post
In the Spotlight: RoboQuĂn
This week weâre spotlighting CityTechâs own âRoboquĂnâ. In addition to being a seemingly futuristic mannequin robot fashion model that can interact with people via Bluetooth and Wifi connectivity, RoboquĂn is also a larger multidisciplinary project composed around the construction and showcasing of the mannequin robot (hereafter the robot will be referred to as RoboQueen and the project will be referred to as RoboquĂn).… Continue reading this post
In the Spotlight: SADHA
OpenLab affords many opportunities for student-faculty collaboration and professional development for students. For a great example of this, look no further than SADHA. SADHA, short for Student American Dental Hygiene Association, is a site that facilitates the membership of first and second year Dental Hygiene students in an important professional organization – the American Dental Hygiene Association.… Continue reading this post
In the Spotlight: City Tech Printmaking Club
City Tech’s Printmaking Club is a one-stop shop for students learning to make prints. The club, advised by Profs. Libby Clarke and David Barthold and staffed by a top-notch team of student officers, is dedicated to “keeping traditional printmaking alive at City Tech.”… Continue reading this post
In the Spotlight: Pre-Dental Society NYCCT
This club site is clean and well-structured, and members have been actively writing, with regular posts that include helpful information about dentistry and dental school. Itâs also easy to find out more about what the club does and how to contact them. … Continue reading this post
