This Week in the Open Lab: End of the Year Edition!

(Image by Rob Hughes via Creative Commons License)

School is nearly out!  It’s the end of the year!  We’ll be taking most of the summer off of This Week to concentrating on other elements of the project, and just wanted to take this chance to thank everyone for supporting the OpenLab this year.  It’s been an amazing time, the growth of the project has been unbelievable, and we’re looking forward to keeping it up in the fall.  Thanks again!

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CUE CONFERENCE SUMMARY 

Last week, the OpenLab community team presented at the CUNY CUE Conference.  Designed for faculty and administrators, this year’s CUE conference focused on research and evidence-based practices to improve student learning outcomes in the classroom and in all academic support services.

The OpenLab Team promised to “examine how faculty learn new techniques to enhance student learning by presenting examples of the pedagogy from OpenLab.”  In practice, that meant we showed some of the great work going on at the OpenLab, and the many advantages our users have gained from keeping their work open and public.

Once we presented some possibilities and advantages for open pedagogy, we asked the attendees to play a game!  As in our Living Lab Workshop a few weeks ago, groups of participants were to create an assignment based on three cards, drawn at random.  The event was a great success, topped off with some serious campus envy on John Jay’s amazing roof-lawn-patio-field…

Many thanks to everyone who participated in our session, and the conference!  Have a sane finals week, and have a wonderful summer!