Welcome to The Center for Teaching and Learning at Baruch
We’re glad you’re here!
The Center for Teaching and Learning, now merged with the Schwartz Communication Institute, is a collaborative learning community for all faculty at Baruch College. We provide opportunities to foster innovative, humanizing, and student-centered practices across learning modalities and to develop teaching methods in an inspiring and research-based setting.
We’re evolving! With guidance from a Faculty Advisory Committee, we are embarking on a year-long strategic planning process. Shortly, we’ll be seeking your input on how we can better serve our Baruch community. In the meantime, check this CTL site for all faculty-facing programming on teaching and learning, and you can still find the BLSCI site here.
See below for a bulletin of featured resources and opportunities, as well as upcoming events, and a curated collection of CTL projects.
What we do
Make an appointment with us today!
If you’d like to discuss your course or other faculty development opportunities with a CTL staff member, make an appointment with us, or reach out at [email protected].
The CTL Bulletin
Events
Featured Projects
AI Resources
Here you’ll find a frequently-updated list of pedagogical readings and resources, as well as our office’s own programming and research on AI.
Active Learning
Active learning refers to teaching techniques that encourage active participation, student engagement, and the co-construction of knowledge. Explore the CTL’s resources on active learning.
Teach Online
We have aggregated our online teaching resources here, so that you may be able to explore and learn about teaching online, in your own way, wherever you may be, and on your own time.
Zoom Guide
This Zoom guide is designed for all the instructors who need a remote/virtual class meeting platform to support any of the learning modalities currently offered by Baruch.
Student Learning Guide
Inspired by our study of student experiences at Baruch, we’ve created a learning guide that faculty can share with students. This guide includes tons of tips and strategies for a successful semester.
TeachOER
TeachOER offers faculty a catalog to browse purveyors and websites that host openly licensed materials. As you will see on the site, OER can range from open access (free) textbooks, to lesson plans, to educational videos, to interactive websites, and more.
Blogs@Baruch
Blogs@Baruch is an online publishing and academic networking platform for the Baruch College community, maintained collaboratively by the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Baruch Computing and Technology Center.
CUNY 1969
The CUNY 1969 Project is an interactive, narrativized platform that explores the history of the Five Demands student protest movement, and brings CUNY history archives of student movements into the classroom and curriculum.
Vocat
Vocat is a teaching and learning platform that facilitates qualitative and quantitative assessment of a range of media. Faculty and students can upload videos, pictures, and audio directly into Vocat using a simple drag-and-drop interface.
Teach Hybrid
Here you’ll find guidance for designing and implementing your hybrid course and a browsable collection of sample teaching materials, including syllabi, assignments, activities, and reflections from faculty who designed a hybrid course as part of the Baruch CTL Hybrid Seminar.
Teach Open Tools
Here you’ll find information about teaching with free, open-source digital tools—platforms for learning that don’t monetize your or our students’ data. On our Teach Open Tools site, we offer tutorials for getting started with select key tools and further context for working with openly licensed media.
Student Experience Survey
Since 2020, we’ve collected data on student experiences at Baruch. This data provides the CTL with actionable information to help the largest number of faculty adjust their pedagogy as efficiently as possible. Learn more about the findings from this ongoing study.
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Get in touch with us
Email: [email protected]
Location: 137 E 25th Street, 3rd floor
Directions: Go past the Baruch Honors Program office, until you reach rooms 315A – 323.