Engaging a College Community Through Open Digital Technologies: City Tech’s OpenLab CUE Conference at City College the OpenLab team @CityTechOpenLab May 8th, 2015
Charlie OpenLab is an online community at City Tech where students, faculty, and staff can meet to learn, work
Jody Rosen, Jenna Spevack our team living lab project director: Jonas Reitz living lab program manager: Charlie Edwards OpenLab co-directors: Jill Belli, Genevieve Hitchings, Jody Rosen, Jenna Spevack instructional technology fellow: Bree Zuckerman community facilitators: Scott Henkle, Andy McKinney developers: Boone Gorges, early-adopter system administrator: André Pitanga student graphic designer: Matthew Joseph student bloggers: Jean Luc Antoine, Amoni Brown, Shawn Brumell, Jessica Deng, Konyca Francis, Amanda Marmol, Mandy Mei, Brianna Vasquez Work of many hands – including students
People
Courses
Courses
Projects
Clubs
Portfolios
why “Open”? unlike closed online college systems, the OpenLab allows members across the college to communicate with one another and the world outside City Tech Jody – What is open pedagogy? Why is it beneficial?
why “Lab”? like a lab, it provides a space where faculty and students can work together, experiment, and innovate Jody
goals for the OpenLab _ make the curriculum visible to students _ encourage connections across the college _ empower students to take ownership of their work _ offer a virtual space for collaboration & learning for the entire City Tech community Charlie: - Making entire curriculum visible to all City Tech and beyond Students making connections, presenting their best work, opportunities to expand audience for their work beyond the walls of the classroom Our campus is small, our college is large, virtual place-based learning can help strengthen our community
introducing “The Buzz” student bloggers… Just in case…
In case we need it…
Brianna Vasquez
Brianna Vasquez
Konyca Francis
Konyca Francis
Mandy Mei
Mandy Mei
Brainstorm How do you generate student engagement on your campus? What successes have you had with creating student engagement? What challenges? Any new ideas using open digital technologies?
more questions? please get in touch! thank you! more questions? please get in touch! openlab@citytech.cuny.edu