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Everything You Wanted To Know About Teaching And Learning With Technology But Were Afraid To Ask: An Online Facilitators' Inquiry-Based Investigation Group, Sarah Brennan, Sandy Figueroa, Sherese Mitchell Apr 2011

Everything You Wanted To Know About Teaching And Learning With Technology But Were Afraid To Ask: An Online Facilitators' Inquiry-Based Investigation Group, Sarah Brennan, Sandy Figueroa, Sherese Mitchell

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Saturday In The Park With Franz And Joyce, Julie Trachman, William A. Casari, Nelson Nunez-Rodriguez, Flor Henderson, Yoel Rodriguez, Jason Libfeld Apr 2011

Saturday In The Park With Franz And Joyce, Julie Trachman, William A. Casari, Nelson Nunez-Rodriguez, Flor Henderson, Yoel Rodriguez, Jason Libfeld

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Business Ethics Education: How Well Are We Preparing Students To Handle Ethical Issues At Work?, Hector Lopez Apr 2010

Business Ethics Education: How Well Are We Preparing Students To Handle Ethical Issues At Work?, Hector Lopez

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Educators at large constantly struggle to overcome curriculum and resources constraints to prepare students for everything within their specific academic program. The logical question to ask is whether the content of an ethics course aligns with the content of the ethical challenges students will face. While a strong case can be made supporting the mastery of classical approaches to ethical analysis, the touchstone for deciding what to include in a business ethics course or curriculum should reflect practicality and applicability as well as critical thinking. To build student awareness of ethics in real-time situations, both a conceptual foundation and ample …


Collaboration In The Design Classroom, Rees E. E. Shad Apr 2010

Collaboration In The Design Classroom, Rees E. E. Shad

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Carving A Path Of Sustainability In Hostos Community College, Flor Henderson, Julie Trachman, Olga Steinberg, Nelson Nunez-Rodriguez, Yoel Rodriguez Apr 2010

Carving A Path Of Sustainability In Hostos Community College, Flor Henderson, Julie Trachman, Olga Steinberg, Nelson Nunez-Rodriguez, Yoel Rodriguez

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Touchstone Volume 3.1 (Spring 2010), Hostos Community College Apr 2010

Touchstone Volume 3.1 (Spring 2010), Hostos Community College

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Preface To Touchstone, Lucinda Zoe Apr 2010

Preface To Touchstone, Lucinda Zoe

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Introduction, Touchstone, Kim Sanabria Apr 2010

Introduction, Touchstone, Kim Sanabria

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General Education Inquiry Groups: The Story Of A Pedagogical Conversation, Gina Cicco Apr 2009

General Education Inquiry Groups: The Story Of A Pedagogical Conversation, Gina Cicco

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In September of 2007, I was asked to serve as leader of the Education Department’s Inquiry Group at Hostos Community College. At the time, the General Education initiative to form inquiry groups across all academic departments was fairly new. The first goal for our department was to define “inquiry group” and to establish a precise purpose for our group.


Use Of A Triple-Entry Journal Assignment In A Writing Intensive Microbiology Course Section To Help Students To Read And Write More Effectively, Julie Trachman Apr 2009

Use Of A Triple-Entry Journal Assignment In A Writing Intensive Microbiology Course Section To Help Students To Read And Write More Effectively, Julie Trachman

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Touchstone Volume 1.1 (Spring 2008), Hostos Community Apr 2008

Touchstone Volume 1.1 (Spring 2008), Hostos Community

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Education For Sexual Harassment Prevention: Which Training Technique Works Best?, Amy Ramson Apr 2008

Education For Sexual Harassment Prevention: Which Training Technique Works Best?, Amy Ramson

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Crossing Academic Domains: Creating A Learning Environment In Faculty Teamwork, Paula Korsko, Kate Lyons Apr 2008

Crossing Academic Domains: Creating A Learning Environment In Faculty Teamwork, Paula Korsko, Kate Lyons

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The following paper takes a look at the process that two college professors from different disciplines underwent to develop and carry out a project by creating a learning environment in which both faculty members attempted to acquire the language and culture of the other in order to accomplish the task at hand.


Celebration Of The Committee On Beautiful Ideas, Judith Summerfield Apr 2008

Celebration Of The Committee On Beautiful Ideas, Judith Summerfield

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I take this project seriously, this COBI. It is, for me, the most unconventional, sound, and forceful project at CUNY. The project is unconventional: it flies in the face of prevailing winds that make us to attend to depersonalized gerunds and reified nouns: teaching, learning assessment; to outcomes, summations, totals that signal failures, deficiencies; to inabilities that signal impossibilities. Failure rates, killer courses, remediation, that can level the faint at heart.