Category: Share Fair 2014 Project Directory

Aimee Quesada

NYU Stern

Responsive Course Faculty Evaluations

A goal of Stern’s Undergraduate College is to increase the number of Course Faculty Evaluations (CFEs) submitted by students. Creating a responsive design for the form will enable students to complete the form form whatever device they prefer and may increase the number of submissions.

Jason Phillips

NYU Stern School of Business

NYU SternPlay – Take the Stairs

NYU SternPlay is a mobile app that utilizes iBeacon location-based technology to promote better collaboration and improve efficiency at Stern. The first phase of the app is an initiative called “Take the Stairs”, a school-wide competition promoting stair usage. Various groups will compete to see who can take the most steps, and in so doing will reduce elevator wait times, congestion and energy consumption. Those who log the most steps on leader boards will be rewarded.

Co-Presenter(s): Janet Lyden and/or Bridget Wiede

Kevin Palmer

Campus Media/Digital Studios

Advanced Classroom Technology

A demonstration of NYU’s Course Capture and Student Response Systems. Course Capture is the recording of a class for the purposes of time-delayed viewing or real time streaming. Student Response Cards (clickers) allows students to respond to polling and/or testing queries in-class through the use of a response card.

Co-Presenters: Alvin Shelton, Randy Havens, Chee Daniels, David Gail

Cristián Opazo

Global Learning & Innovation, GTS

Using a Multimedia Interactive Case Study as teaching model

The Multimedia Interactive Case Study (MICS) consists a series of modular, high quality digital learning modules that expose students to a real-life case while they simultaneously develop a toolbox of specific skills that support analysis and decision making in a myriad of contexts. The traditional case method, in which skills and concepts are taught and subsequently applied and practiced utilizing real life context, is the basis of this approach. Due to its modularity, the MICS can be implemented as a stand-alone course or integrated into other curricula.

Resources include video documentaries, interviews, data sets, maps, infographics, academic research, news archives, and image collections. In addition, technology and the use of an online platform enable interactive tools which provide the foundation to master specific skills and build students’ toolboxes.

More info here: https://stream.nyu.edu/media/Policy+%26+Operations+%28Wagner%29+course+promo/1_9x690ton

Co-Presenter: Hugh Mackey (GTS)

Lena Ogren

NYU IT

NYU Box

NYU Box is cloud-based secure content and file sharing collaboration platform. NYU Box implementation project is underway to deliver departments and faculty a HIPAA compliant solution. This project will also retire Webspace, our aging departmental file sharing tool.

Co-Presenters: Jeffrey Bary, Monica McSharry

Lillian Moran

NYU IT

Flipping a Large Lecture Class

Introduction to Media Studies is a core freshman course, with approx. 300 students, in Media, Culture, and Communication (MCC), Steinhardt. The professor, Ted Magder, has won several excellent teaching awards both here at NYU and at previous institutions, however was keenly aware that his large lecture needed more student engagement.

GLI worked with Prof. Magder over several months to identify areas of his course which could be ‘flipped’, freeing up class time to incorporate student centered activities. Two of the eight segments in the course were flipped during this initial revised version, with additional segments to be flipped and re-used with other core MCC course in future semesters.

Co-Presenter: Suzanne Ciprut, Global Learning & Innovation