I was notified about this from the college where I’m teaching — it may be of interest to some of you just to see what others are doing and what […]
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How It All Works: Breaking Down the Structure and Purpose of “Mapping the Futures of Higher Education”
We are often asked to carefully break down exactly how the “Mapping the Futures of Higher Education” course is structured. It seems more complex than it is but since, to […]
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 […]
Virtual Mapping
This past October at our first public Futures Initiative event at the Graduate Center, Curtis Wong, the Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, gave a talk entitled “Mapping the Universe and Other […]
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 […]
The Single Best Method For Class (Or Any Kind of) Participation (Thx SciFi Genius Samuel Delany)
Whenever the great science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany teaches or gives a talk, he asks questions and has one requirement: everyone has to raise a hand. Everyone. Whether one […]
Collaborative Learning for a Digital Age
This is an excerpt from Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn (Viking, 2011). It was published, in […]
What Are We Missing in Higher Ed and How Can We Change It–Today?: Podcast
Bonni Stachoiwiak did a great job interviewing me and editing this podcast on “Teaching in Higher Ed,” “How To See What We’re Missing in Higher Ed“: http://teachinginhighered.com/podcast/cathy-davidson/ Follow here on Twitter: […]
Five Ways to Be Part of “Mapping the Futures of Higher Ed” #FuturesEd
“Mapping the Futures of Higher Education” is a series of courses at the Graduate Center and throughout the CUNY system. It is also a collaborative, peer-driven movement to rethink the […]
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 […]
