Online and blended classes should be student-centered, robust, and engaged learning environments, but I can say after working with many faculty over the years, they don’t always hit the mark. […]
Archive | March, 2015
Teaching and Researching with Feeling
The things I like best about myself as a teacher and the things I work to refine share a boundary: excitement. I move around the room, peeking into group work. […]
Cathy N. Davidson to Speak at ACE on “Equity and Innovation in Higher Education”
Dr. Cathy N. Davidson will speak on the closing plenary “Equity and Innovation in Higher Education” at the American Council on Education Annual Meeting, “Promises to Keep: Higher Education and […]
Two Chances at the Same Lesson, or, It’s Nice to Have a Do Over
At the end of last week, I had the fortune to substitute teach for an evening class and then the subsequent morning class because one of our teachers was, unfortunately, […]
Students Take the Lead: Quick Prompt for Research
I have not always been a student-centered believer. It took a few years before I could really understand how to implement this approach into my classroom and grasp the unlimited […]
A ‘Cognitive Surplus’ in the Bronx!
This week’s lesson in “Mapping The Futures” involved the complex topic known as “student-centered pedagogy”, an approach with which I have had no prior experience. Our colleagues Michelle, Hallie, and […]
Bringing Mapping to the Classics Course: An Adventure
My Greek and Latin Roots of English course recently published their Name Etymology Map to the Futures site (you can check it out and participate here). However, since many names […]
How We Judge Learning (and How It Judges Us)
Today, I had an incredible, exhausting, inspiring hour today with Matt, the relentless and caring personal trainer at our gym. Before we dove into the tough stuff, he tested me […]
NYCDH Second Graduate Student Project Award
NYCDH is pleased to announce our second annual cross-institutional NYCDH digital humanities graduate student project award. We invite all graduate students in the city of New York to apply by August […]
How We Designed Our Class and Assessment Follow-up
Group one in Mapping Futures of Higher Education launched our first peer led class with assessment after an amazing collective brainstorming activity held on the first day of class. Our […]