Every semester I offer a day-long crash course that covers the basics of geographic information systems. You’ll learn the fundamental concepts of layering, joining data to map layers, coordinate systems, […]
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Photo: CUNY IT Conference
Members of the Futures Initiative team with George Otte, Director of Academic Technology, following Cathy Davidson’s keynote address at the 2014 CUNY IT Conference.
March 10: Open Session on Student-Centered Pedagogy (Livestreamed!)
Join us March 10 for Student-Centered Pedagogy: a workshop for innovative classroom practices focusing on collaboration, crowdsourcing, and experiential learning. What does peer learning look like across disciplines? What are […]
Intro to GIS Workshops using Open Source Software
Do you have a research question that you’d like to envision geographically? Maybe you’d like to study neighborhoods and businesses to target a market, or to provide a public service. […]
Spring 2015 Events
Events from our partners: CLAGS GC Digital Initiatives GC Office of Career Planning and Professional Development Graduate Center Library JustPublics@365 NYC Digital Humanities Futures Initiative and Mapping the Futures of […]
CANCELED: Queering the Map with Jen Jack Gieseking
The Futures Initiative and the Graduate Center Library regret that this event has been canceled. We hope to reschedule very soon and will post details here when they are confirmed. […]
The MOOC Moment, Thurs. Feb. 26, 3:30pm, Grad Center Library
2012 was declared to be “the year of the MOOC” by no less than the New York Times, but stories of failure abounded about Massive Open Online Courses in the […]
Photo Essay of Futures Initiative Syllabus Building Workshop
The Futures Initiative hosted its first workshop of the Mapping the Futures of Higher Education course this past Thursday, January 22nd. A number of the graduate students who will be […]
Cathy N. Davidson, “The Invention of Failure” Tuesday, January 20 at Duke
The Invention of Failure Tuesday, January 20, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Open to the public. Light dinner provided. PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge John Hope Franklin Humanities […]
Reflections on Futures Initiative Open Session: Rethinking Evaluation and Assessment in Online and Blended Learning Environments
On December 8th, Dr. Anthony Picciano, Professor and Executive Officer of the PhD program in Urban Education, joined us for a Futures Initiative Open Session. This was a very topical […]
