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Provost Christine Mangino
Office of Academic Affairs

I am not sure words can do justice to describe Spring 2020, a semester that began as many others but quickly became unrecognizable. During the first

The Center for Teaching and Learning recognizes the challenges of finding time to research, plan, and execute new ideas. As a result, we created short videos that serve as a resource for tips, reflections, tools

For decades, several initiatives have been taken by the United States to increase minority students’ interest and persistence toward engineering, to meet the fast growing needs of its STEM workforce. However, r

Virtual Hostos Reads!

This Semester we are Hosting a series of Virtual Discussions involving a variety of short reads that are very timely.

Please Join us! Share with your thought and ideas about these

by George Rosa

The latest version of the CUNY Hostos Student Online Learning Preparedness “Are You Ready?” course has been updated with new content as well as changes to self-assessment questions and fee

by Eric Ritholz

One of the most significant contributing factors to the future of Online Learning at Hostos over 2020 is that we have more feedback and examples of use than ever before to guide in both the

by Danny Wu

Amidst this pandemic, with colleges and universities moving to remote, there has been much frustration voiced by students all over the world over the difficulties of remote learning. “Roughly 20% o

General education needs a new name. The bland, catch-all-sounding phrase belies its importance, its vitality, and the vexing, urgent struggles to make sense of the world that are its reason for being.

Our

by David dos Santos

The current challenges make replacing the interpersonal connections that were fostered through casual pre-class conversations, post class questions and other in-person interaction quite

The Center for Teaching and Learning would like to congratulate the following faculty for these achievements:

Congratulations to all of you!

When you register for classes, pay attention to the type of course you are selecting.
Asynchronous You do not engage in live classes. Assignment deadlines are in the syllabus.  You decide when to log in. Don’t

Take the Are You Ready course before the first day of classes.
Sign into Blackboard three to four weeks before the first day of classes. Find the syllabus and read it.
Use the Hostos online b

Take the Are You Ready course before the first day of classes
Sign into Blackboard three to four weeks before the first day of classes and find the syllabus.
Use the Hostos online bookstore and g

This fall semester, the Office of Educational Technology is offering a new self-paced Online Learning Initiative that is in place for faculty who did not participate in any of the previous ones or for those who

For the PDF version, click on this link: EdTech Innovations Newsletter Fall 2020

Articles

Reflections on Online Learning
Reflection About My Summer Experiences  – Preparing Faculty Members for the 2020

by Carlos Guevara and George Rosa

At the start of the Covid 19 crisis,when CUNY decided to move to all-distance instruction, The Office of Educational Technology, the office responsible for providing support to

by Juan Soto-Franco

This experience started in the second week of March when there were rumors that all classes would switch to the online modality.   At that moment, I remember contacting Dr.  Andrea Fa

By Eric Ritholz

It has been an intense Summer in terms of training and adapting a vast variety of courses to function in an online environment. Along the way there have been several common denominator issues