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- CUNY Closed versus Academic Continuity: An Institutional Choice– republished from 10/2012
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- Strategic Planning for the Apocalypse
- Lessons Learned: Departure of a CUNY President
- Winner Take All @ CUNY
- Technologically Adrift?
- CUNY Managerial Scorecard: Best Practices or Best Practiced Again?
- CUNY Libraries: Old Paradigms or a Digital Future?
- 5 Ideas to Jumpstart CUNY’s Online Efforts
- “Show Me the Urgency”
- Lessons Learned From John Jay Online (Part 2)
- A Scalable Learning Management System (LMS)
- Faculty Development — As If It Matters
- Lessons Learned From John Jay Online (Part 1)
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- Adjuncts Online: An Exploited Class
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- The Character of Learning
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- New York Times — Say It Isn’t So!
- Online Learning: Innovative? Yes, Transformative? No.
- Evolution of a Course
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- Forum for CUNY Instructional Technologists
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- Online Shorts: Late Fall 2012
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- Focus on Online: Opportunities to Publish
- Faculty “Qualms” with Online, Not Technology
- Adjuncts and Online: Intersecting Trends
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CUNY Closed versus Academic Continuity: An Institutional Choice– republished from 10/2012
Note: This post, published about 7.5 years ago, followed- up on my Academic Continuity post earlier that year. It reflects on a major snow event which crippled learning at CUNY for several days. I proposed that online learning could prove … Continue reading
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Online and Emergency Planning (republished, 2/2012)
Note: This post was published over 8 years ago (Feb, 28th, 2012). It was followed -up by a presentation at the 2013 CUNY Technology Conference, and the creation of an Emergency Bb site for CCNY faculty created by Natalia Kapli … Continue reading
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Online Policy for CUNY: Some Important Points
Note: This document was written prior to my letter to the Chancellor (the previous post) and was created on January 24, 2019. It summarizes some of my thinking over many years of following online learning, and CUNY’s rather inept response … Continue reading
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A Letter to New Chancellor Rodriquez
Dear Chancellor Felix Matos Rodriquez, Congratulations on attaining your new position! I am writing this in the hopes that you take a risk, one much needed with CUNY. The risk involves empowering some dedicated and knowledgeable staff and faculty persons … Continue reading
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Lessons Learned: Departure of a CUNY President
Note: The contents of this post is solely my views for which I take responsibility. Although I am far from objective on this matter, I do share a viewpoint, not often expressed, that needs to be heard. After over 6 … Continue reading
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Technologically Adrift?
In many posts I have criticized what I would characterize as CUNY’s “institutional drift.” Departing chancellors take several years to leave, followed by an interim administration of a year or more, followed by a new administration taking many years to … Continue reading
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CUNY Managerial Scorecard: Best Practices or Best Practiced Again?
There has been a great deal of heated debated over Amazon’s management practices as reported in the August 15, 2015 New York Times (link here). The Gallop organization reviewed the article and followed it up with an intriguing analysis (link … Continue reading
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CUNY Libraries: Old Paradigms or a Digital Future?
It is not saying much to state that libraries currently are going through major challenges in the digital age. Library attendance has been trending down for over a decade as users abandon the stuffy recesses of the stacks for the … Continue reading
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5 Ideas to Jumpstart CUNY’s Online Efforts
If I ever had the chance to meet CUNY’s new Chancellor Millikan, I would love to talk about a topic of mutual interest, namely, Online Learning. From his days as Chancellor at the University of Nebraska, Dr. Millikan has been … Continue reading
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“Show Me the Urgency”
We all know it takes time to turn an ocean liner around. But at a large institution like CUNY, the question really is, “Why turn the ocean liner around?” Or maybe next academic year, “we’ll look into turning the ship … Continue reading
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