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Using The Interactive Whiteboard To Teach Social Studies, Shelley Oakley

Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Course Shell For Introduction To Oer Class, Steven Ovadia

Open Educational Resources

This is the course shell for the fully online OER class used to train CUNY faculty in OER implementation. It includes five modules plus a final project. The modules are:

• Class introduction
• An Introduction to Open Education Resources
• Finding and Evaluating Open Education Resources
• Using Open Education Resources in Your Class
• Creating and Hosting Your Own Open Education Resources

Discussion prompts are included as a separate document.

An Exploration Of The Connections Between Institution Type And Perceived Levels Of Stereotype Threat In African American Engineering Students, David M. Sparks

Curriculum and Instruction Faculty Publications

To distinguish the similarities and differences in coping strategies of African American engineering students, a quantitative study was conducted which examined their perceptions of stereotype threat at three academic institution types: predominantly White institutions, ethnically diverse, and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The researcher collected demographic information as well as survey data using the Stereotype Vulnerability Scale (SVS). Results were analyzed using a one-way ANOVA and Pearson’s correlational statistical analyses. Findings revealed that no statistical differences exist between students’ scores on an assessment of stereotype vulnerability at the three university types, nor did the percentage of African American students …