Public Group active 2 weeks, 1 day ago

Futures Initiative

The Futures Initiative aims to advance greater equity and innovation in higher education. Housed at the Graduate Center and reaching throughout the CUNY community, the Futures Initiative empowers the next generation of intellectual leaders with bold, public, and engaged teaching and learning. The Futures Initiative fosters greater understanding of the complexities of the higher education landscape by spearheading qualitative and quantitative research in areas such as academic labor practices and reward systems, open-access multimedia publishing, data visualization and interpretation, and institutional change. Through HASTAC@CUNY (a hub of the online network Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory), the Futures Initiative extends its collaborative peer-to-peer practices across institutions, disciplines, national boundaries, and economic and social disparities, promoting reinvestment in higher education as a public good.

Admins:

Join Us: Open Pedagogy Event Thursday 2/23 at 5:30pm

  • Posted by Kristen Hackett on February 14, 2017 at 2:37 pm

    Dear Colleagues:

    We’re excited for our upcoming Open Pedagogy event on Thursday February 23, 2017 at City Tech beginning at 5:30pm, and are hoping you can join us and/or help us to spread through your various networks. Full details below.

    Thanks for your help, and looking forward to seeing you on at the event!

    Cheers,

    The OpenLab Team

    **************************************************************

    **APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING**
    Open Pedagogy on the OpenLab Event: Annotating Texts in Open Digital Pedagogy

    Thursday February 23, 2017, 5:30-7:30pm (Faculty Commons, N227, at City Tech)

    *Refreshments will be served. (Thanks to the Faculty Commons for its generous support of this event!)

    *Please RSVP and share this invitation widely!

    Join the OpenLab Team, City Tech faculty and staff, and CUNY colleagues at our next Open Pedagogy event where we’ll be discussing annotating texts in open digital pedagogy. There is an increased push to use digital texts and open educational resources to save students money on textbooks (and to save paper!), but using digital texts in the classroom is often perceived as preventing students from fully and critically engaging with a text. Thanks to the development of new digital technologies, it has become easier to annotate texts digitally, and during this Open Pedagogy session, we’ll share a sampling of tools to use for digital annotation, showcase examples of them in action, and discuss best practices for cultivating close reading and conversation in digital spaces.

    We’ll consider the following questions:

    • What challenges have faculty encountered while working with digital texts (perhaps as opposed to printed or hard copy texts)?
    • How can annotating digital texts impact student learning? How can they impact the teaching process?
    • How can you (and your students) use the OpenLab (and/or other open digital tools) to annotate texts digitally?
    • What does the future of annotating texts and open digital pedagogy look like?

    Want to learn more about annotating texts in open digital pedagogy and digital reading more generally? Here are a few short pieces for reference:

     

    SAVE THE DATE! 

    Next Event: Multimedia Pedagogy Across the Disciplines

    Thursday March 23, 2017, 5:30-7:30pm (Faculty Commons, N227 at City Tech)

You must be logged in to reply to this topic.