CUNY Distance Learning Archive

12/18/2021

The three collections of the CUNY Distance Learning Archive that Zach Muhlbauer, Nicole Cote, Travis Bartley, Matthew K. Gold, and Stefano Morello have been working on for the past 18 months are finally up and running on the CUNY Digital History Archive's website! Shout outs to Steve Brier, Chloe Smolarski, and Marco Battistella for their support; to our contributors; and to the original team/students in Matt Gold's "Knowledge Infrastructures" course.

You can find an intro and the links to our digital exhibits documenting the impact of the first nine months of the COVID-19 pandemic on the CUNY system (and especially its people) at https://cdla.commons.gc.cuny.edu

“The Shutdown: CUNY Responds to the Covid-19 Pandemic” collection documents the uncertainty of the weeks immediately preceding and following the official March shutdown of the City University of New York system https://cdha.cuny.edu/collections/show/372

The “Teaching and Learning During the Time of Covid-19” collection offers an additional record or trace of the ephemeral and often unseen dimensions of CUNY’s educational landscape during the pandemic https://cdha.cuny.edu/collections/show/382

The “ ” collection aims to document the fight against CUNY’s austerity politics during the COVID pandemic. https://cdha.cuny.edu/collections/show/412

Featured post Course Archive This site contains student blog posts and teaching materials related to ENGL 89500: Knowledge Infrastructures, a seminar taught by Prof. Matthew Gold in Spring 2020 in the Ph.D. Program in English at the CUNY Graduate Center. We will leave the content of the site availab...

08/07/2020

As we enter into a new academic year, it is hard not to compare how our hopes for the Fall have changed over these scant few months. Where we hoped to find a return to ‘normalcy’ (if such a term still holds value), we now see ourselves caught in a series of crises. Distance learning has become a political platform. Our fellow international students are caught in economic and administrative nightmares. Adjunct lecturers are fighting for their occupational livelihoods. And our public institutions are operating on shoe-string budgets in preparation for likely economic devastation.

With schools across the country preparing for a tumultuous Fall semester, we at CUNY, the largest urban public education system in the U.S., understand the state of precarity that haunts our communities and how easily personal histories can be lost in times of crisis. The CUNY Distance Learning Archive ask you to join us in preserving these histories and contribute to our developing archive. If you have a personal learning narrative to be remembered, remnants of course development for the Fall to be cataloged, or even photos of your current home-office space to be recorded, we enthusiastically welcome your contribution at https://cdla.commons.gc.cuny.edu or through email at [email protected]. All submissions remain anonymous unless otherwise noted and may be removed from our archive at any time.

Contribute We welcome submissions from the CUNY community of the following nature: Personal narratives reflecting on distance learning, especially during the abrupt shift to online education midway through the Spring 2020 semester. (Here are some suggested questions if you’re having trouble.) Offi...

04/01/2020

We invite CUNY students, faculty, and staff to submit documents, narratives, photos, and reflections on their experiences at this moments. Send contributions via our online form at https://cdla.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ or by emailing us at [email protected]
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03/15/2020

We’ve created the CUNY Distance Learning Archive to document the transition to online instruction at CUNY during the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic. Please contribute here: https://cdla.commons.gc.cuny.edu

We invite contributions from CUNY faculty, students, and staff that document their experience of this moment.

Please also submit:
* Public Emails and communications discussing moving CUNY resources and teaching online.
* Administrative instructions regarding teaching.
* Learning resources developed during the transition.

We are also preserving public threads from social media such as Twitter and Reddit.

We welcome your submissions and questions. Our intent is to document this important moment of instructional transition at the nation’s largest public urban university.

Please submit:
* Personal narratives reflecting on distance learning during the abrupt shift to online education midway through the Spring 2020 semester.
* Documentation of online learning experiences (photos, narratives, screenshots).

Contribute We welcome submissions from the CUNY community of the following nature: Personal narratives reflecting on distance learning, especially during the abrupt shift to online education midway through the Spring 2020 semester.Emails and communications discussing moving CUNY resources and teachi...