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Register for a two-week, asynchronous, instructor-facilitated workshop offered by Lehman’s Office of Online Education, November 2-15, 2020.
The workshop models effective design and facilitation skills and addresses pedagogical approaches to teaching online and hybrid, as well as organization and management of an online class. Confer with your chair about participating in this workshop and register by October 12th. Info: online.education@lehman.cuny.edu
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Additional Online Teaching Resources |
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Faculty Mentors assist you with pedagogical and technology related questions about remote and online teaching. Click here to see the list of Fall Mentors for your school.
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Thursday, October 29th and Friday, October 30th
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This online event will celebrate and elevate CUNY’s national footprint in OER development and pedagogical innovation, with the theme “OER to Open Pedagogy: Teaching and Learning Empowered.”
Faculty, staff, and students working on OER and Open Pedagogy projects, practices, or infrastructure are encouraged to attend. More information forthcoming.
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Events include, screenings and poetry jams, salsa dancing lessons and a voter registration drive. The National Hispanic Heritage Month each year is from September 15 to October 15. The commemoration celebrates the customs and achievements of individuals who trace their roots to Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America.
For a list of events across CUNY campuses, click here.
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AAC&U and its Project Kaleidoscope invite you to join us virtually for the AAC&U Conference on Transforming STEM Higher Education to grapple with the undeniable truths, paradoxes, and peculiarities of what is at the heart of our nation’s STEM higher education reform enterprise—us. This conference will convene STEM faculty, national experts, and thought leaders in higher education, share effective STEM teaching and learning strategies, reveal the latest in STEM education research, and deeply engage in topics that are critical to the reform of STEM higher education. Through a new lens, the stage is now set for deeper levels of awareness and examination of the conditions that are required for true STEM reform to take place.
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It takes less than 10 minutes to complete and its impact lasts over 10 years. Don’t delay! 6 Days and Counting. To complete the US Census 2020, click here. |
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CUNY Votes is a comprehensive, non-partisan initiative whose mission is to promote student voter registration, voter participation and voter awareness through campus-based activities, external partnerships and University-wide campaigns. In the midst of COVID-19, stay safe, stay home, and register to vote online through DMV with a State issued ID and apply for an absentee ballot online. Request an Absentee Ballot and Vote by clicking on the link provided.
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You are specially invited to enjoy Penny Prince’s newest musical produced totally online: Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet
Where?: On the Lehman College Music Multimedia Theater and Dance YouTube page.
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This issue explores our Library’s contributions to supporting online education whether through development of innovative Open Educational Resources, or adapting Learning Tools Interoperability software to embed course-specific Research Guides within Blackboard and more.
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The Lehman platform for the Library’s chat reference and e-mail services has changed. Working in conjunction with several CUNY libraries, the new version will provide enhanced services, user experience improvements, and better follow up features while still providing the same 24-7 chat coverage enjoyed in the past. The new software provides the option of creating a public knowledge base, which the Library will use to better share information about its services and events with the campus community. For more information, please contact Head of Reference Vanessa Arce Senati.
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Lehman has available iPads, Chromebooks and WiFi devices for students who need them. Devices are reserved for students deemed to have the greatest need for broadband internet access. Click here for more information.
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Lehman is offering our students extensive Online Training through courses, helpful tips, and questions and answers. Please share with your students below information as they prepare to take your courses this Fall. We want this to be a very successful semester for all.
Online Training Includes:
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Lehman College Online Student Orientation “Are You Ready": The self paced orientation may be accessed here.
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How to Succeed Online: The Blackboard guide offers helpful tips to students who might be new to online learning. For more information, click here.
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Student FAQs for Remote/Online Learning: For more information visit the FAQs webpage by clicking here.
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Distance Learning: Tips for CUNY Students: Prepared by CUNY’s Macaulay Honors College and the Graduate Center to offer student resources and tips for success for remote/online learning. Visit the webpage here.
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IT Help Desk: For assistance with the use technologies, contact the Lehman Help Desk via help.desk@lehman.cuny.edu
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The Instructional Support Services Program offers online tutoring, academic coaching, and a variety of writing and academic skills workshops. All our services are online. Tutoring is available for writing, humanities and social science courses (through the Lehman Tutoring Center), as well as courses in the natural sciences (through the Science Learning Center). Individualized coaching for students who seek to improve their study skills, strategies for learning online, and overall academic performance is also available. Students can call us at 718-960-8175 or email us (issp.program@lehman.cuny.edu) for more information. Direct links to our virtual tutoring centers are as follows:
Please note the Tutoring and Science Center links above are only active during business hours.
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Office of the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Student Success |
We oversee all educational programs; faculty matters; accreditation reviews; strategic planning; and the review of division and departmental budgets. Questions? Email provost.office@lehman.cuny.edu or call 718-960-8222. For submissions or issues relating to the eDigest, email edigest.provost@lehman.cuny.edu.
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