Lehman College Center for Teaching and Learning Faculty Newsletter

Reimagining the Classroom: A CTL Workshop Series on Flexible Teaching

The 2027 Carmen Hall renovation will significantly reduce available classroom space, causing instructors to rethink how and where teaching happens. This workshop series is designed to turn that constraint into an opportunity, helping instructors explore practical, pedagogically sound approaches to hybrid, and online course design. Whether you're facing a full move online or restructuring around reduced in-person time, these sessions are built to help you make deliberate, student-centered choices, turning a scheduling challenge into a chance to strengthen how your course engages learners.

✨ Upcoming Events: ✨

🗓️ Getting Started with Transforming your Course

This session provides an overview of flexible learning modalities, and the key considerations faculty need to weigh as they choose between them. It utillizes lessons learned from pandemic-era emergency remote teaching as a foundation for more deliberate decision-making, and grounds the conversation in factors that drive course redesign: student engagement needs, realistic class time availability, and how that time is best used. Faculty will leave with practical tools and a clearer sense of direction for transforming their course

September 23th, 3:45PM–4:45PM, Online

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September 24th, 2:00PM–3:00PM, Online

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🗓️ Maximizing Learning Across Online and In-Person Spaces with Hybrid and Flipped Learning Experiences

September 30th, 11:00AM–12:00PM, Online

Explore practical strategies for designing hybrid and flipped courses that meaningfully integrate online and in-person learning. This deep-dive session will examine how to scaffold learning across modalities, prepare students for success, establish clear expectations and accountability measures, and maximize valuable in-person time. Participants will also consider which course materials and activities are best suited for asynchronous, synchronous online, and face-to-face learning while exploring relevant Brightspace and Zoom tools.

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🗓️ High Engagement in Online Classes

October 1st, 1:00PM–2:15PM, Online

Join us for this synchronous online session designed to help faculty utilize the communication, collaboration and assessment tools in Brightspace. This two-hour session will walk faculty through the process of communicating with students, facilitating collaboration, and building assessments in Brightspace

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🗓️ This Weeks Ask Me Anything Sessions

These drop-in sessions are designed to answer any and all questions about moving your course to hybrid or online modalities.

September 24th, 12:00PM–1:00PM, Online

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September 25th, 12:00PM–1:00PM, Online

Artificial Intelligence Meets Academic Integrity: The AI2 Initiative

As Artificial Intelligence reshapes daily academic life, the Lehman College community must come together to address questions about the use of AI in the academic setting, fairness, and trust. Through structured dialogue events, the AI² initiative creates a shared space for faculty and students to engage in dialogue and reason through questions of academic integrity and artificial intelligence together, developing clearer expectations for the use of AI, addressing concerns, and examining the ethical issues AI raises. At its core, AI² is about building trust between faculty and students regarding the use of AI at Lehman.

✨ Upcoming Events: ✨

🗓️ Community Forum on AI and Academic Integrity

October 6th, 11:00AM–12:30PM, EDR

Join the Lehman College community for the inaugural AI² event: a forum bringing together faculty and students for a structured dialogue on artificial intelligence in higher education. The forum will open with a shared look at Lehman's academic integrity policy and its current interpretation as applied to AI. From there, faculty and students will engage in a facilitated dialogue to share their perspectives and explore the use of AI in the academic setting together. Participants will leave with a clearer, common understanding of the academic integrity concerns of A.I. and build mutual trust and shared expectations around AI use at Lehman.

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The CTL is here to support our teaching and learning community. We want to hear about your experiences, needs, and the challenges you face teaching here at Lehman.

Share Your Thoughts

The CTL has launching a short faculty survey to learn what's working in your teaching, where you're running into friction, and what kind of support from the CTL would actually make a difference. The survey is anonymous and takes just a few minutes. Your responses will directly shape the workshops, services, and resources we build out this year.

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Monday Mentor

How Do I Create Questions that Stimulate Engaging Conversations in Online Discussion Boards?

Are your online discussion boards greeted with crickets or superficial "I agree" replies? While discussion boards are a hallmark of online learning designed to build community and clarify misunderstandings, they often fall flat if the prompts lack true "discussability". In this 20-minute mentor session, Dr. B. Jean Mandernach explains why the fault usually lies in the question design rather than the students, and she shares actionable techniques to transform flat Q&A threads into rich, dynamic dialogues.

In this weeks session you will learn:

  • Specific frameworks for writing engaging prompts which introduce nuance and motivate student involvement and debate.
  • Practical facilitation techniques get students to dig deeper in their discussion posts.
  • Creative ways to integrate multimedia, case studies, role-playing, and virtual field trips directly into your discussion prompts.

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This session is offered by Magna's 20 Minute Mentors. Lehman Faculty can register for a free account here

These practical and informative sessions are tailored to higher education faculty. Released each Monday, these videos are available to watch at your convenience for one week.

The CTL is Here To Help

Developing a new course or refining an existing one? The CTL can help. Schedule an in-person or virtual consultation to discuss your teaching and learning needs.

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