Currently, many academic institutions are using one or more variations of online …
Currently, many academic institutions are using one or more variations of online modalities due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and science educators face a unique challenge with distance-learning laboratories. Many resources to engage students in virtual, interactive laboratory activities exist, but we found that high costs and/or overlooked content left gaps for several topics typically taught in a general, introductory biology course for undergraduate biology majors (e.g., organismal biology). Additionally, resources for an online lab must be identified and curated from multiple sources, requiring intense demands on the instructors’ time. To meet this need and to overcome the financial burden of high-cost lab manuals or software, we developed, piloted, and revised a series of online general biology lab exercises. We have published these exercises as an Open Educational Resource (OER) digital laboratory manual under the Creative Commons License Agreement, and they are accessible online via Manifold, Creative Commons, and the CUNY Academic Works portal.
This assignment is designed for any lecture based course that does not …
This assignment is designed for any lecture based course that does not inherently have collaborative work or assignments as part of the curriculum. For any student taking a theatre arts course, understanding how it is to work with others and create something is one of the biggest lessons that can be learned. To take the pressure off the idea of "performance", this playwriting assignment starts with the role of the Playwright and how to create from the ground up.
This syllabus includes OER materials and college policies for a fully online …
This syllabus includes OER materials and college policies for a fully online course that takes a comprehensive look at global health issues. In this course, the assessment of health issues are analyzed from various perspectives including geographic, ethnic, religious, human rights, socioeconomic, social, cultural, and political influences. Students learn about global environmental causes and consequences of infectious diseases, major diseases, mental illness, natural disasters, malnutrition, drug and alcohol addiction, violence and injuries.
An OER resource for Hum1: Modern Humanities: Arts & Ideas Humanities Course …
An OER resource for Hum1: Modern Humanities: Arts & Ideas Humanities Course Description: Through the exploration of modern literature, drama, art, film, poetry, and music, this course places developments in the Humanities into historical and philosophical contexts and illustrates the continuity of culture. This course introduces students to literature, philosophy, art, film, and music from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. Humanities Course Objectives: At the completion of this course, students will be able to 1. become acquainted with the human tradition as expressed in its literature, philosophy, and the arts; 2. become familiar with seminal modern ideas and theories as expressed through literature, philosophy, and the arts; 3. examine underlying assumptions about and ways of seeing literature, philosophy, and the arts; 4. think critically about the humanities by looking outward at the world and formulating thoughtful and informed ideas about it; and 5. understand themselves as persons whose identities are shaped through participation in a wider community and longer history.
Implementing digital portfolios to document the writing process offers students a way …
Implementing digital portfolios to document the writing process offers students a way to curate an exhibit of their work. The Google Sites application provides online spaces for students to upload permanent artifacts. It is user friendly and provides a visual document of student growth over the course of a semester. By publishing drafts and revisions, students are reminded of the progress they have made as writers. In addition, using visual approaches to organizing work also assists students with time management.
Approaching analysis of Dramatic Literature can easily be accomplished via class discussion …
Approaching analysis of Dramatic Literature can easily be accomplished via class discussion and through writing. Since plays are “written to be performed”, other approaches of analysis must be explored. The collage assignment and synthesis focuses on the visual aspects of the writing and how the playwright offers clues as to what can or should be focused on.
This assignment aims at making instruction student-centered where students would participate in …
This assignment aims at making instruction student-centered where students would participate in the curation of content. Students are asked to explain the various economic topics using the economic terminology and personal experience. For example, in this assignment, the students are split in groups and asked to discuss and identify what their opportunity cost of getting a college degree is. They will discuss all the items that comprise the opportunity cost and the benefits of going to college and share this in real time with everyone else through a google document. Assignment Learning Outcomes: Define and apply the notion of opportunity cost. Understand the consequences of making choices and the relation with costs. Apply and clarify choices based on benefit and cost analysis.
This assignment aims at making instruction student-centered where students would participate in …
This assignment aims at making instruction student-centered where students would participate in the curation of content. Using findings from prior conducted research and group discussions, students will present some economic indicators and the performance of the economy of a country of their choice (students self-selects the country to be researched). For example, the student is asked to identify the latest recession experienced by the selected country using the historical real GDP data collected and analyzed in stage two. Having identified the time of the recession, the student is asked to explain what happened to the other economic indicators, such as inflation rate and unemployment rate during that specific time. Assignment Learning Outcomes: Interpret, graph, and explain the macroeconomic indicators such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP), unemployment rate, inflation rate, etc. Identify a recession and explain it in relation to the macroeconomic indicator of real GDP. Relate and interpret the relationship of various macroeconomic indicators, such as real GDP, inflation rate, and unemployment.
In this writing assignment, students will conduct research on statistics about COVID-19 …
In this writing assignment, students will conduct research on statistics about COVID-19 in New York City and their embedded communities using free online databases from the New York City Department of Health (NYC DOH). For questions 1, 2, 3, and 4, students will conduct research on COVID-19 statistics within NYC and their specific neighborhood/community in New York City. In questions 5 and 6, students will analyze the data you have gathered while using your own knowledge of your community. A full set of instructions for accessing NYC DOH databases and a complete rubric for grading the assignment is included.
The goal of this assignment is to create a webpage about a …
The goal of this assignment is to create a webpage about a language used by NY state students that can be shared with an audience of teachers and future teachers.
After participating in Kingsborough Community College’s Open Pedagogy Fellowship during the Spring …
After participating in Kingsborough Community College’s Open Pedagogy Fellowship during the Spring 2021 semester I designed theses assignments in order to better align my course assignments and learning outcomes with some principles of Open Pedagogy. The three assignments are scaffolded, each building on the previous one, to produce the overall goal of having students educate others about artworks. There is a combination of group work and individual work throughout and the groups decide what the final product will look like and how it is shared, that is, students decide who they are looking to educate about art and how they will do so. Students have this freedom to design these aspects of their projects because the final grading rubric will be consistent regardless of the form they choose. These aspects of the assignment’s design aim to embrace the principles of collaboration and flexibility, which are central to Open Pedagogy.
Work in Progress - In the Spring of 2023, I will endeavor …
Work in Progress - In the Spring of 2023, I will endeavor to work collaboratively with students to develop an open textbook for the Art 26: UX Visual Design course. As this class has only been offered once in the past and in general the UX courses are new at Kingsborough there isn't an obvious single authority on the subject. As a practitioner in the field professionally, I grow concerned that even if a solid text could be found in print that industry changes happen so frequently that the only helpful authority will need to be a dynamic work. Hence, I've built a new CUNY Commons site for the purposes of working with the students to define and build out this resource. In so doing I hope the students will learn through the production of the resource and at the same time build into a dialectic with future students as the courses grow and course work expands. The work can be found at: https://art26uxdesign.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
This work includes a teaching material that could be the embryonic stage …
This work includes a teaching material that could be the embryonic stage of a textbook for a Principles of Financial Management course. Principles of Financial Management is a course that introduces you to key financial concepts and the application of financial analysis in making sound business decisions. Topics covered are time value of money, risk and rates of return, asset valuation, capital budgeting, and capital structure, and more. At the end of the course, you will gain an understanding of financial assets, financial markets, financial intermediaries, and the banking system. You will also be able to understand financial statements (i.e., balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement) published by corporations and the various ratios utilized by investors.
This two-part assignment introduces students to spectrogram reading by asking them (1) …
This two-part assignment introduces students to spectrogram reading by asking them (1) to explore a set of spectrograms representing the days of the week, and then (2) record their own spectrogram and add a picture of it to a common "Mystery Spectrograms" folder for use in a subsequent assignment (and also in classroom activities). NOTE: by the time this assignment is introduced, the students have already learned how to record themselves and save sound files using the Praat software for acoustic analysis. If they are not familiar with the procedure, this tutorial will help: Making a recording in PRAAT
This assignment is asking students to collaboratively create a database with videos …
This assignment is asking students to collaboratively create a database with videos illustrating differences in the speech production of young children compared to that of adults.
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