Office of the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs

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Tuesday, November 29, 2016

 

This email is being sent to all members of the Baruch College faculty.

For an archive of announcements sent from the Associate Provost beginning June 2011, click here.

 

From:  Allison Lehr Samuels, Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning 

Here’s what’s happening at the Center for Teaching and Learning the week of November 28^th:

All faculty and staff are invited to participate in the CTL’s programs. Click here to learn more about the CTL. If you have any questions, contact Allison.Lehr-Samuels@baruch.cuny.edu or call 646.312.2069. 

Post-Election Resources on Challenging Classroom Discussions:  The CTL has a growing repository of materials, references, and ideas on the CTL blog here: http://ctl.baruch.cuny.edu/resources/challenging-classroom-discussions/.

If you have particular questions or concerns that aren’t addressed, please contact us.

CTL Conversations: “Lowering the Cost of Course Materials: Navigating Open Educational Resources”

Wednesday, November 30, 4pm-5pm, NVC 14-270

Concerned about the high cost of course materials? Hear from members of the Baruch community who have been exploring different approaches to this topic.

New - Can’t join in person but would like to participate? You are welcome to join our experiment of remotely listening in via WebEx. Email Allison.Lehr-Samuels@baruch.cuny.edu to learn more.

 

CTL Conversations is a time for faculty to come together to informally workshop, brainstorm and discuss topics related to their teaching. Each week we’ll focus on a new topic and will invite members of the Baruch community who have expertise in the topic to be on hand, too. Faculty are welcome to drop in and leave at any point during the session. Refreshments available.

 

Coming up.…

CTL Conversations: “Developing Assignments that Incorporate Current Events”

Wednesday, December 7, 4pm-5pm, NVC 14-267

Come together to brainstorm and share how you can develop meaningful assignments that relate your discipline to current events and promote the learning goals of your course.

 

Tech Thursdays: Annotation Tools

Thursday, December 8, 4pm-5pm CTL office, Newman Library building Room 123 (within the Subotnick Financial Center)

Join us to consider and discuss annotation tools such as CommentPress, Hypothes.is, Genius, and more!

Educause has two articles that might be of interest to faculty first learning about annotation tools. This article by Prof. Elyse Graham at SUNY Stony Brook offers historical context to the development of annotation tools. Click here to read a second article that discusses the benefits of using annotation tools. 

 

Allison Lehr Samuels
Director, Baruch Center for Teaching and Learning
Lecturer, Narendra Paul Loomba Department of Management
Field Mentor, Lawrence N. Field Programs in Entrepreneurship
Baruch College, The City University of New York
http://ctl.baruch.cuny.edu