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Cupcakes and Questions: How Do BMCC Students Learn Best?

By Katy Anastasi on November 2, 2018 2

This past spring, BMCC wrapped up Open Teaching Week with an interactive tabling event disguised as a cupcake celebration. After learning throughout the week about how BMCC faculty practice open pedagogy and engage with open educational resources (OER), CETLS and BMCC librarians teamed up to ask students in the BMCC community, “how do you learn best?”

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What I’ve Discovered Teaching OER, So Far…

By Bettina Berch on October 29, 2018 3

Before I entered the OER/ZTC world, I taught macroeconomic theory with a really good textbook that was really expensive. OER has been a win-win change in my teaching practices…and I am happy to help anyone else give it a try!

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More Teaching, Less Grading

By Hollis Glaser on October 18, 2018 14

After teaching the basic public speaking course at colleges for over 30 years, and being frustrated with the level of speeches, level of writing, no-shows and drops, I realized I had to radically change the way I was teaching.

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Follow the (Student) Leader: How Students Can Be the Best Teachers

By Adele Kudish on April 27, 2018 5

Many professors “flip the classroom,” but how many of us actually let the students do the teaching? When students lead discussions, no one performs the role that Paulo Freire calls a “narrating Subject,” depositing information into the class; instead they embody Freire’s ideas of reconciliation and gaining consciousness.

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From PhD to Ironman in One Week

By Daphnie Sicre on February 27, 2018 6

When I started my PhD in the summer of 2007, I never thought it would take me ten years to complete. I discovered that running and triathlon training helped me write, and ultimately, successfully defend my dissertation.

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Cupcakes and Questions: How Do BMCC Students Learn Best?

What I’ve Discovered Teaching OER, So Far…

More Teaching, Less Grading

Follow the (Student) Leader: How Students Can Be the Best Teachers

From PhD to Ironman in One Week

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