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News & Updates | 2014
Video: Fall 2014 RewirED Faculty Showcase at Morningside
The Fall 2014 rewirED Faculty Showcase at Morningside celebrated innovative uses of technology in the classroom and online. The event featured four faculty innovators who...
Video: Robert Darnton and Shigeru Miyagawa Talks Released
Fall 2014 Conversations on Online Learning videos are now available, featuring talks by Harvard's University Librarian and Professor Robert Darnton and MIT Professor Shigeru Miyagawa....
Eric Foner's Second Course on edX Begins Today
NEW YORK, New York, December 1, 2014 — Join Professor Eric Foner, and 4,500 other students for "HIST 1.2X: The Civil War, 1861-1865" on...
Fifteen Years of Brownfield Action
On Saturday, November 15, Professor Peter Bower, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science at Barnard College, presented at the Science Education for New Civic Engagements and...
ICAP and CCNMTL Launch Nursing E-Learning Platform
This month ICAP and the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) launched the ICAP Nursing E-learning platform to support online learning for...
The Conversations on Online Learning series continues on Wednesday, December 3, at 3pm in 203 Butler with Harvard University Librarian Robert Darnton. Professor Darnton's talk...
WACEP Launches Two New Online Courses on Water, Weather, and Climate Change
The Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) and the Water and Climate Education Program (WACEP) collaborative recently launched courses three and four...
This Week at the Center: November 12, 2014
This week we reflect on the ways that the Center supports teaching with technology in the humanities at Columbia. Like the field itself, the use...
This Week at the Center: October 29, 2014
Innovation is an enduring theme of our work here at the Center. As many of our key initiatives illustrate, we use our unique vantage point...
The Conversations on Online Learning series continues on November 6th, at 3pm in 203 Butler Library with Professor Shigeru Miyagawa from MIT. His talk...
Eric Foner and CCNMTL Featured in Columbia Magazine
This Fall's edition of Columbia Magazine includes an excellent article, by David J. Craig, featuring Professor Eric Foner and the production of his new...
Provost's Office Announces Teaching and Learning Initiative for Faculty
The Office of the Provost has launched a new Request for Proposals (RFP) inviting faculty to apply for funding to support redesigning the delivery of...
Richard Stallman Visits Columbia On October 17
Richard Stallman, MacArthur-Award-winner, Harvard alum, founder of the GNU Project and Free Software Foundation, hacker and freedom advocate, will be visiting Columbia on Friday,...
CCNMTL October 2014 Newsletter Features Faculty Stories
This month our newsletter features a number of great faculty stories, and some new events coming up at the Center. Learn more about our collaborative...
Columbia University Launches Website Dedicated to 2014 Edward M. Kennedy Prize Winner
NEW YORK, New York, October 8, 2014 – This month the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) launched an informational website for...
A Celebration of Maxine Greene
In recognition of the October 6, 2014 event at Teachers College celebrating the life of Maxine Greene, we share this wonderful video from our...
This Week at the Center: September 29, 2014
This week at the Center we’ve been celebrating and expanding our implementations of blended learning at Columbia. We are currently reflecting on some recent success...
September: Three Great Professors, Four Great MOOCs
September has been a busy month for Columbia University with the release of four unique, and exciting, massive open online courses (MOOCs). Take a look:...
Faculty Fall Premieres At Morningside And CUMC Hit The Mark
We would like to thank the nearly 100 Columbia University faculty and staff that made our eighth annual Fall Premiere 2014 such an incredible...
Online Course Now Includes Newly Approved Hepatitis Treatments
The New York/New Jersey AIDS Education and Training Center (NYNJ AETC), and the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL), released an update...
Eric Foner's Civil War MOOCs Launch Today on EdX
NEW YORK, New York, September 17, 2014 — Columbia University’s Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) today launches the first of three new...
Fall Premiere 2014 - For Faculty and Instructors
Join us for the eighth annual Fall Premiere. We are planning a fully interactive, expo-style open session exploring the opportunities for customizing #BlendedLearning at Columbia...
This Week at the Center: September 2, 2014
The last weeks of August are a time of excitement and preparation all over campus. At the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning...
Fall 2014 Release of Mediathread Supports Secure Collections
Mediathread is CCNMTL's innovative platform that supports multimedia analysis and annotation. With its latest release, Mediathread now supports media on secure websites (https) expanding the...
CCNMTL and EdX Launching Professor Foner's Civil War MOOC: Trailer Released
The Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) has been hard at work producing an exciting new MOOC (massive open online course)...
Register Now for Fall 2014 Workshops
Start this Fall semester off right with a faculty workshop at the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL)! Attend a faculty workshop...
Learning with MOOCs Conference: A Practitioner's Workshop
Video recordings for the Learning with MOOCs workshop held on the MIT campus August 12 and 13 have been released online. The invitation-only workshop hosted...
Video: Faculty Showcase at RewirED Spring 2014
The Spring 2014 RewirED Faculty Showcase celebrated innovative uses of technology for teaching. The event featured lightning talks from seven of CCNMTL’s faculty partners: *...
This Week at the Center: August 1, 2014
Editor's Note: This Week at the Center has switched to a monthly release during the summer months. An important thread of activity that runs through...
ISTE 2014 Conference Draws CCNMTL Educational Technologists
Dan Beeby, Sarohini Chahal, Kenny Hirschmann, and Ellen Maleszewski of CCNMTL attended this year’s International Society for Technology and Education conference at the Georgia...
7th Annual Summer Institute for Teaching and Learning Kicks Off Tomorrow
The 7th annual Summer Institute for Teaching and Learning is a day-long workshop devoted to exploring effective teaching and learning strategies in health sciences education....
Join a Summer MOOC: Economics of Money and Banking Part 2 Launched
It's not too late to join Barnard College Professor Perry Mehrling for Part 2 of his Economics of Money and Banking course. Part 1 explored the...
This Week at the Center: July 2, 2014
Graduate student teacher education was a major focus for the Center in late June as CCNMTL and the Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
CCNMTL’s Lucy Appert Elected to Apereo Foundation Board
Lucy Appert, Associate Director of Projects at CCNMTL, was elected to the Apereo Foundation Board of Directors at their annual members meeting on June 2....
This Week at the Center: June 12, 2014
The role technology can play in building a sustainable credentialing practice for teaching was on our minds this week as several Center staff members participated...
Video: Bryan Cranston on How He Prepared for His Tony Award-Winning Role as LBJ
This past weekend, All the Way, a play about political turmoil in America in the 1960s, won two Tony Awards, for Best Play and Best...
This Week at the Center: June 2, 2014
Our focus was on the future this week as the Center welcomed Dr. Chuck Severance for a discussion with staff on near-term trends in educational...
Columbia University's First Year of MOOCs: A Statistical Summary
On November 5, 2012, Columbia University and Coursera signed an agreement to deliver massive open online courses (MOOCs) to the world. The first Columbia MOOCs...
This Week at the Center: May 22, 2014
This week we’ve been thinking a lot about the use of social media for teaching and learning, thanks to an interview with Reyes Llopis-Garcia, lecturer...
Learn About Creating and Sharing Content with iBooks Author
You’ve heard of ebooks and maybe even read a few, but did you know that you can create your own custom ebooks using Apple’s...
Video: Brian Greene Discusses World Science U
Brian Greene, professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, spoke at Columbia on May 8 about his latest project, World Science U. A video...
This Week at the Center: May 15, 2014
Many of our conversations this week have involved the question “Can online courses teach us anything about successful teaching strategies for face to face classes?”...
Video: Virtual Forest Tools Enhance Science Learning and Research
Since 2009, the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) has partnered with the Black Rock Forest Consortium on the Virtual Forest Initiative,...
This Week at the Center: May 7, 2014
This week the Center was the site of an energizing series of conversations about digital media and its future in teaching and learning as we...
Contact CCNMTL for End of Semester Faculty Help with CourseWorks and More
The trees on campus are in bloom, Riverside Park is starting to look green again, and the end of the Spring semester is upon...
Columbia University to Host Symposium on Digital Media and the Humanities
On May 5, the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) will host "Moving Images and the (Digital) Humanities: Toward Best Practices...
This Week at the Center: April 30, 2014
Each year, more than 200 faculty members consult with our staff to create customized educational technology solutions for their classes. This week at the Center...
Brian Greene and Claudia Dreifus to Discuss World Science U at Columbia on May 8
Brian Greene, a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, will discuss his latest project, World Science U, as part of the Conversations...
Video: Marcia Linn on Innovations in Online Learning
Marcia C. Linn, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and leading researcher in the use of technology for teaching mathematics and science, spoke...
CCNMTL and Case Consortium @ Columbia Announce Partnership
The Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) and the Case Consortium @ Columbia (CC@C) have announced a new partnership to innovate, develop,...
This Week at the Center - April 22, 2014
The importance of design in effective pedagogy and learning materials was one of the major themes of discussions at the Center this week as we...
Columbia Faculty to Share Innovative Uses of Technology for Teaching at rewirED Showcase
This Friday, April 25, seven faculty members from Columbia University and affiliates will share their experiences using educational technology in Spring 2014 classes. Their...
CCNMTL’s Chahal to Present Workshop at Teachers College on SMART Board and English Language Learners
Sarohini Chahal, an educational technologist at the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) and manager of the Center’s Faculty Support Lab,...
This Week at the Center - April 15, 2014
Humanities were a key focus of conversations at the Center this week. On April 9, we welcomed Jim Grossman, Executive Director of the American Historical...
Marcia Linn, Leading Researcher on Technology and Education, to Speak at Columbia April 17
Marcia C. Linn, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and leading researcher in the use of technology for teaching mathematics and science, will...
Faculty from Jewish Higher Ed Institutions Showcase Ed Tech Projects
On March 24, eighteen faculty members from three institutions of Jewish higher education— Hebrew Union College, Yeshiva University, and the Jewish Theological Seminary.edu—gathered with...
This Week at the Center - April 8, 2014
What are the possibilities beyond MOOCs for open online learning experiences? On April 1, Columbia math and physics professor Brian Greene visited the Center to...
This Week at the Center - April 2, 2014
As conversations about MOOCs continue to broaden and deepen, CCNMTL was excited to have Rebecca Griffiths, Program Director of ITHAKA’s Program on Online Learning, join...
Journal Article Describes Brownfield Action’s Use for STEM Education
The Winter 2014 issue of the journal Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities featured an article on how Brownfield Action, a simulation...
WACEP Launches with Online Courses on Water, Weather, and Climate Change
In the Caribbean, most states rely on a single source of water for all domestic, agricultural, and industrial needs. The challenge of managing this...
Video: Dominique Morisseau Discusses Winning the Edward M. Kennedy Prize
On March 18, 2014, playwright Dominique Morisseau’s Detroit ‘67 was awarded the second annual Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History....
Video: Anant Agarwal - "Reinventing Education"
On March 13, 2014, Anant Agarwal, president of edX and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, visited Columbia to give a presentation on...
The University today announced a partnership with edX, the nonprofit online learning platform founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Columbia...
CCNMTL Joins Silicon Alley at NYEdTech Startup Showcase 2014
Mediathread, the open source multimedia annotation platform developed at the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL), will be featured at the...
Anant Agarwal, President of edX, to Speak at Columbia Mar. 13
Anant Agarwal, president of edX, an online learning destination founded by Harvard and MIT, will give a presentation at Columbia University on Thursday, March...
Central European Nations Use Tool Developed by CCNMTL for Genocide Prevention Training
Government officials from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia (collectively known as the Visegrád Group) gathered recently in Budapest to consider what to do...
Today at noon the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) will kick off its Spring rewirED series with "The Art &...
Video: Al Filreis on the Communitarian Possibilities of MOOCs
Al Filreis, a University of Pennsylvania English professor identified by The Chronicle of Higher Education as a key tech innovator of 2013, spoke at Columbia...
The Spring 2014 Release of Mediathread is Live at Columbia
A new version of Mediathread, the open-source multimedia annotation tool developed by the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning, is now live...
Al Filreis, Literary Scholar and Digital Learning Pioneer, to Speak at Columbia Jan. 31
Al Filreis, a University of Pennsylvania English professor and pioneer of digital humanities education, will give a presentation at Columbia University on Friday, January...
Sachs’s Sustainable Development MOOC Launches with Support from CCNMTL
Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University, has...
rewirED: EdTech Talk That’s Always Grounded
Join the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning for the Spring 2014 rewirED series—a place to discuss how to best harness...
Spring 2014 Faculty Workshops Start Jan. 21. Register Now!
It’s a new year and a new semester, and the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) is offering workshops for...
CCNMTL Featured in GSAS Magazine Article on 21st Century Pedagogy
The cover article of the Fall 2013-Winter 2014 issue of Superscript, the magazine of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at Columbia University (GSAS),...
Video: Chris Dede - "The Future of Digital Learning in Higher Education"
On December 12, 2013, Harvard University's Chris Dede visited Columbia to give a presentation on the future of digital learning in higher education. His presentation...
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