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Thursday, September 10, 2015

 

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:  Kannan Mohan, Interim Director of Baruch’s Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL)

Dear Colleagues: 

Please see the workshop announcement below from George Otte, CUNY’s University Director of Academic Technology. This workshop would be valuable especially to those who have not taught online/hybrid courses and those who have not used Blackboard extensively but plan to do so in the future.  

I am happy to discuss in more detail the structure and expectations of the workshop with any interested faculty, and to help you determine if the workshop is right for you.  

Best wishes,
Kannan Mohan

From:  George Otte, Associate  Dean of Academic  Affairs, The CUNY School of Professional  Studies

(Note: the following has been excerpted from Dean Otte’s message to CUNY’s Chief Academic Officers)

We will soon be accepting registrations for the fall 2015 workshops preparing CUNY faculty to teach online or hybrid courses, giving priority to those faculty slated to teach online or hybrid courses in the winter session or the spring term. 

Starting September 8th, we will begin accepting applications for the October and November workshops of "Preparation for Teaching Online: A Foundational Workshop for CUNY Faculty," scheduled for 10/19-11/1/15 and 11/9/15-22/15 respectively. These workshops will themselves be completely online.

Applicants will need supervisory sign-off indicating they will be scheduled to teach at least one online or hybrid course in the term(s) ahead, with priority given to those scheduled to do so in the coming fall term. That supervisory approval (by both the department/program head and the CAO) is especially important since the campuses are to pay each faculty member who successfully completes the workshop 10 hours at the non-teaching adjunct rate for their participation; this amount will be reimbursed to the college once the faculty member has taught six online or hybrid credits within the two semesters following the workshop. (As noted in earlier announcements, this is to ensure that there is follow-through -- actual delivery -- on the online or hybrid courses these workshops are intended to foster.)

The description of the workshops and the application form can be found at http://cunyonline.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ -- where you also find the full annual schedule of workshop dates at the bottom of the page, just above the means to register for the workshops.

 

George Otte   George.Otte@mail.cuny.edu

Associate  Dean of Academic  Affairs,  SPS

The CUNY  School of Professional  Studies

101 W 31st  Street,  New York, NY  10001

Room:  718           Phone:  646-344-7258

University Director of Academic Technology

The  City  University  of  New York  (CUNY)