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New Media Lab

THE NEW MEDIA LAB (NML) assists City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center faculty and doctoral students from a variety of academic disciplines to create multimedia projects based on their own scholarly research. Our goal is to integrate new media into traditional academic practice, challenging scholars to develop fresh questions in their respective fields using the tools of new technology. The NML is committed to a vision of new technology based on open access to ideas, tools, and resources.

With ongoing support from CUNY, the New Media Lab has become a dynamic environment in which projects funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Old York Library Foundation, and other private and public sources demonstrate new approaches and methods of merging digital media, scholarship, and learning.

Located in room 7388.01 at the CUNY Graduate Center and run under the auspices of the Center for Media and Learning / American Social History Project, NML researchers:

work across academic disciplines to produce scholarly digital media projects;

analyze Internet usage in the educational, social, and commercial sectors;

construct 3-D environments that explore ways of visualizing the arts, humanities, and sciences

digitally archive and analyze a wide range of data
participate in public programs that address the critical intersection of knowledge and technology

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OERs for Teaching and Learning

  • Posted by Luke Waltzer (he/him) on October 17, 2016 at 3:56 pm

    The rapid increase of textbook prices is a particular problem at a university like CUNY whose students often come from lower income backgrounds. Many students are already hard pressed to afford college, let alone expensive texts. As advocates for our students, we have the opportunity and responsibility to consider moving away from both textbooks and costly educational materials and towards no-cost solutions like Open Educational Resources (OERs).

    Join the staff of the Teaching and Learning Center on <strong>Wednesday 10/19 from 1-3 pm in room 9207 of The Graduate Center</strong> for a workshop on integrating open educational resources into your classroom. This workshop is open to faculty and students across the CUNY system.

    Participants are encouraged to come to the workshop with material or materials in mind that they’d like to replace with an OER solution. We will explore some tools and resources that are necessary to begin weaning ourselves away from using pricey, proprietary educational materials with the goal of designing courses that are more accessible to lower income students and that reinforce the belief that knowledge should be free and open. Particular attention will be paid in the workshops to thinking about how we can involve our students in the processes of building OERs.

    <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeOFVmw2nUtHwDnCkjrptBGq41FY_nd8Q6eW28Z9_kaeke8Jw/viewform?c=0&w=1">To RSVP please click through to this form.</a>

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