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Updated 7/12/19

Summary

Professor Marc Lieberman (Economics) flipped the recitation sections for both of his large lecture courses, Introduction to Microeconomics and Intro to Macroeconomics, eliminating the need for students to purchase textbooks and platform licenses. In addition to developing online modules and animations, Professor Lieberman leveraged NYU Classes to create an online problem solving platform.

Learning objectives

Provide students with essential review material to clarify points of confusion
Reduce the variability in instruction by recitation leaders
Eliminate the need for students to purchase costly textbooks and software

Professor Marc Lieberman created Open Educational Resources (OER), freely available course content, to solve pedagogical and financial challenges. Common recitation materials lead to all students receiving a similar level of information about key topics. Content can be customized for lectures, and made visually appealing through rich animations created by the NYU IT Media Production Team. No-cost content and platforms save students money (up to $350 per student).

Professor Lieberman worked with FAS (in partnership with NYU IT’s TLT Team) to develop similar resources for his Introduction to Macroeconomics course. These were implemented successfully in Fall 2018’s Intro to Macroeconomics course and will be used again in Professor Lieberman’s classes, as well as additional Economics courses running at NYU Florence, in the coming academic year.

Student experience

Go through online modules prior to lecture
Attend recitation sections and review material anywhere, anytime
Complete problem sets

Technology resources

Custom animations
Custom interactive modules, for recitation lectures + assessments
NYU Classes, for custom problem sets
NYU Stream, to house videos

Outcomes

Custom content replaced the need to purchase a textbook and interactive software, leading to cost savings of up to $350 per student.
Standardized instruction across recitation sections
Ability for students to review material anywhere, anytime
Similar project completed for Introduction to Macroeconomics in Fall 2018
Example module: ‘How Banks Get in Trouble’ – Click to view module

Summary

Professor Virginia Cox (Italian Studies) integrated project-based learning into CORE-Texts & Ideas, Visible and Invisible Cities, a course that focuses on representations of the city since Classical times. In addition to writing scholarly papers, each student had to complete a creative project, critically exploring texts using multimedia and non-traditional technologies.

Learning objectives

Develop students’ ability to use multimedia to advance and enhance a scholarly argument

Use emerging technologies to broaden the audience for scholarly content

Visible and Invisible Cities centers on the ways in which human communities have been theorized and imagined within the Western tradition from classical antiquity through to the Renaissance. Activities include close reads of primary texts, rich discussions, and the completion of a creative project. For the creative project, students critically reflect on texts using alternative methods, like podcasting, interactive illustration, mapping, and even song writing.

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Virginia Cox – Creative Critical Thinking

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