CUNY Academic Commons

Organizational culture change, communities of practice, faculty development, game-based learning, online education, ePortfolios, learning styles

• History
• Awards
• Celebrating Carnival in New York, Ecuadorian style
• Celebrando el Carnaval al estilo Ecuatoriano en Nueva York
• ¡Vamos al teatro para apoyar al Fondo de Becas!

• President and Co-Founder, Organización Juventud Ecuatoriana – www.juventudecuatoriana.org

• Founder of the Ecuadorian Scholars Fund – www.juventudecuatoriana.org/esf

Polytechnic University
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science
City College Of New York
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

• Beyond Physical Space: Implementing a Virtual Learning Commons at an Urban Community College”

  Cases on Higher Education Spaces: Innovation, Collaboration, and Technology, IGI Global

  2012

  The administration, faculty, and staff at Hostos Community College strive to improve students’ computer and information literacy skills while meeting the distinct needs of Millennials. In 2007, Hostos initiated a project to reconfigure physical spaces throughout the campus (areas in the Library, Academic Learning Center, Educational Technology Office, and Academic Computing Center) and establish a unified virtual space, creating a cross-divisional entity: the Information Learning Commons (ILC). This case discusses the formation of the ILC Committee, the group that envisions and manages physical ILC spaces’ renovation and also develops virtual spaces; the planning and implementation of physical learning commons spaces; the web applications that unify the ILC; the benefits of reducing duplication and optimizing resource utilization; Hostos current challenges with the ILC concept; and finally, the imminent expansion of virtual commons spaces. Hostos is an exemplar in how collaboration can creatively maximize resources through technology to meet students’ needs.

  Authors:
  • Carlos Guevara,
  • Heba Elsayed,
  • Rebecca Hoda-Kearse,
  • isabel li,
  • George Rosa,
  • Kate Lyons

• Learning Language, Content, and Collaboration through Group Projects

  Common Ground Publisher; Ubiquitous Learning: An International Journal

  2010

  This paper reports on the use of various online technologies to facilitate group-projects at a community college serving a multilingual population in a large metropolitan area. The paper explains why and how wikis, podcasts, and audio-editing software were selected and introduced to and by second language learners to carry out a multi-task project on the historical figure, Thomas Jefferson, an American founding father. It describes features of wikis that not only foster the acquisition of academic language and content, but also help students develop teamwork skills needed for college and workplace success. In short, this paper presents an on-going curricular project to integrate online technologies into ESL content-based instruction (CBI) using student-directed, small-group project work.

  Authors:
  • Carlos Guevara,
  • Kate Lyons,
  • Paula Korsko