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Open Digital Pedagogy & General Education: �A Game-Based Approach

Living Lab General Education Seminar | Seminar 2 | February 14, 2020

Claire Cahen, Digital Pedagogy Fellow

Jason Ellis, OpenLab Co-Director

Jody R. Rosen, OpenLab Co-Director

Olivia Wood, OpenLab Digital Pedagogy Fellow

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The OpenLab Team

OpenLab Co-Directors: Jill Belli, Charlie Edwards, Jason Ellis, Genevieve Hitchings, Jody Rosen, Jenna Spevack
Senior Instructional Technologist: Bree Zuckerman
Digital Pedagogy Fellows: Claire Cahen, Jesse Rice-Evans, Olivia Wood
Developers: Boone Gorges, early-adopter
System Administrator: André Pitanga
And the OpenLab’s 32,000+ members!

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The OpenLab: Teaching, Learning, Collaboration

openlab.citytech.cuny.edu - an open platform that everyone at the college can use

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What’s in a name?

OPEN: Unlike closed online teaching systems, the OpenLab allows members across the college to share their work with one another and the world outside City Tech
LAB: Like a lab, it provides a space where students, faculty, and staff can work together, experiment, and innovate

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Goals of the OpenLab

Support teaching and learning
Enable connection and collaboration
Strengthen the intellectual and social life of the college community

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Architecture

Visible & Connected

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People

Directory Page

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People

Member Profile

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Courses

Directory Page

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Course Profile

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Course Site

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Projects

Directory Page

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For Building Community, Sharing Best Practices

Open Pedagogy faculty interest group

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Clubs

Directory Page

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For Clubs

Official and unofficial - anyone can create a club around their research interests

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Portfolios

Directory Page

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ePortfolios

Students use ePortfolios for reflection and self-presentation

People

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Portfolios

Faculty members create teaching portfolios for promotion and to share their work

People

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Portfolios

Tools to facilitate portfolio building

People

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Open Pedagogy on the OpenLab

… and some examples of Intercultural Knowledge and Competence

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Knowledge: Cultural

Self- Awareness

• Culture: All knowledge and values shared by a group.

• Cultural rules and biases: Boundaries within which an individual operates in order to feel a sense of belonging to a society or group, based on the values shared by that society or group.

Suspends judgment in valuing their interactions with culturally different others: Postpones assessment or evaluation (positive or negative) of interactions with people culturally different from one self. Disconnecting from the process of automatic judgment and taking time to reflect on possibly multiple meanings.

Articulates insights into own cultural rules and biases (e.g. seeking complexity; aware of how her/his experiences have shaped these rules, and how to recognize and respond to cultural biases, resulting in a shift in self-description.)

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AFR 1501 – SEMINAR IN CURRENT COMMUNITY PROBLEMS (AND SOLUTIONS )

Prof. Bennett | Fall 2017

ETHNICITY and/or RACE – FIRST EXPERIENCES

a) Describe the first time you became aware of ethnicity and/or race OR the first major experience that made you aware of how ethnicity and/or race can affect people. (First try to think of a specific experience. If you cannot recall an experience, describe a period in your life when you started to become aware of this concept.) If you are feeling ambitious you can write about more than one experience or period.

b) Describe how the experience or period affected you when it occurred.

c) Describe how the experience continues to affect you now.

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Knowledge: Cultural Worldview Frameworks

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Profs. Almeida and Swift | LIB/ARCH 2205 ID Learning Places | FA18

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Skills: Empathy

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MAT 2071: Advice from the Past

Prof. Reitz | Mat 2071 Proofs and Logic | Intermediate Math Course FA 19

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Skills: Verbal and Nonverbal Communication

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Virtual Workplace Ethnography Assignments

PSY3405 Health Psychology | Interdisciplinary Course on Race and Health

Prof. Blain | ENG2570 | Writing in the Workplace SP 19

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Attitudes: Curiosity and Openness

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Regional Cuisine Assignment

PSY3405 Health Psychology | Interdisciplinary Course on Race and Health

International Cuisine | HMGT4965 | Prof. Stewart

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Let’s Hear from You!

how can you get started?

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��let’s play a brainstorming game

working in your group:

1. you have already chosen an ethics/values/relationships learning goal

2. pick one card from each deck:

_ open digital pedagogical strategies

_ games

3. use the game to help brainstorm an assignment using the open pedagogical strategy to teach the IL skill

4. record the details of your assignment in the template

5. report back to all

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for example

game: Monopoly

cultural knowledge and competency: Discern multiple perspectives

open digital pedagogy: Working together to create an online map (e.g. a Google map)

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Say back in groups

PSY3405 Health Psychology | Interdisciplinary Course on Race and Health

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The Open Community & Support

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The L4

An open bank of assignments submitted by faculty at City Tech and beyond!

A virtual resource exchange of teaching practices
Open to colleagues within and outside City Tech
No membership required to view or post
https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/l4/
(Or simply google it! – L4 City Tech)

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Open Educational Resources

A Legacy of the Living Lab

People

Another important internal partnership has been our collaboration with the Library’s Open Educational Resources initiative

OER benefits to students surpass the obvious cost reduction and ease of using digital texts

Caileen Cooney, who leads City Tech’s OER initiative, describes the the OpenLab as the perfect lab space for OERs because “both seek to inspire collaboration and lifelong learning” (Nucleus 12)

One robust example, Jeremy Seto’s Bio 1 OER uses the site for two different biology courses, creating continuity and providing materials for students needing a refresher and those looking beyond to the next semester

These are vast resources that are dynamic, easily update-able

The new CUNY-wide OER initiative is a priority of the college and the university; City Tech faculty have the opportunity to be OER innovators throughout CUNY and beyond

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Open Educational Resources

OER Fellowship

People

Another important internal partnership has been our collaboration with the Library’s Open Educational Resources initiative

OER benefits to students surpass the obvious cost reduction and ease of using digital texts

Caileen Cooney, who leads City Tech’s OER initiative, describes the the OpenLab as the perfect lab space for OERs because “both seek to inspire collaboration and lifelong learning” (Nucleus 12)

One robust example, Jeremy Seto’s Bio 1 OER uses the site for two different biology courses, creating continuity and providing materials for students needing a refresher and those looking beyond to the next semester

These are vast resources that are dynamic, easily update-able

The new CUNY-wide OER initiative is a priority of the college and the university; City Tech faculty have the opportunity to be OER innovators throughout CUNY and beyond

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OpenLab Outreach

Help, In the Spotlight, The Open Road, The Buzz, and Open Pedagogy on the OpenLab

People

Another important internal partnership has been our collaboration with the Library’s Open Educational Resources initiative

OER benefits to students surpass the obvious cost reduction and ease of using digital texts

Caileen Cooney, who leads City Tech’s OER initiative, describes the the OpenLab as the perfect lab space for OERs because “both seek to inspire collaboration and lifelong learning” (Nucleus 12)

One robust example, Jeremy Seto’s Bio 1 OER uses the site for two different biology courses, creating continuity and providing materials for students needing a refresher and those looking beyond to the next semester

These are vast resources that are dynamic, easily update-able

The new CUNY-wide OER initiative is a priority of the college and the university; City Tech faculty have the opportunity to be OER innovators throughout CUNY and beyond

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OpenLab Outreach

Workshops, Office Hours, Open Hours, and Open Pedagogy events

People

Another important internal partnership has been our collaboration with the Library’s Open Educational Resources initiative

OER benefits to students surpass the obvious cost reduction and ease of using digital texts

Caileen Cooney, who leads City Tech’s OER initiative, describes the the OpenLab as the perfect lab space for OERs because “both seek to inspire collaboration and lifelong learning” (Nucleus 12)

One robust example, Jeremy Seto’s Bio 1 OER uses the site for two different biology courses, creating continuity and providing materials for students needing a refresher and those looking beyond to the next semester

These are vast resources that are dynamic, easily update-able

The new CUNY-wide OER initiative is a priority of the college and the university; City Tech faculty have the opportunity to be OER innovators throughout CUNY and beyond

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Thank you!

EMAIL: OPENLAB@CITYTECH.CUNY.EDU

URL: OPENLAB.CITYTECH.CUNY.EDU

TWITTER: @CITYTECHOPENLAB