Innovative Course Design

The Innovative Course Design RFP is formerly known as the Hybrid Learning Course Redesign and Delivery RFP. The list of awardees and courses can be found below. Additional RFPs will be issued in the next academic year. We look forward to continuing to support Columbia faculty as they develop new and exciting enhancements of teaching and learning at the University, and showcase our outstanding faculty and curriculum to a global audience.

Spring 2023 Innovative Course Design RFP Awardees and Courses

Seyhan Erden, Lecturer in the Discipline of Economics

An Online Platform for Econometrics: Visual Graphical Interactive Simulations

Courses l Introduction to Econometrics & Econometrics I
Semester l Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Summer 2024
Audience l Undergraduate & Graduate Students

Joseph Howley, Associate Professor of Classics

Aristotle and AI: Thinking Tools from Antiquity to Today

Course l Aristotle and AI: Thinking Tools from Antiquity to Today
Semester l Spring 2024
Audience l Undergraduate Students

Catherine McManus, Assistant Professor of Surgery

Using Virtual Reality to Improve Medical Students’ Preparedness for the Operating Room

Course l Ready for Residency
Semester l Spring 2024, Summer 2024
Audience l Graduate Students

Gregory Wawro, Professor of Political Science

Data Science for Political Analytics

Course l Data Science for Political Analytics
Semester l Fall 2023
Audience l Undergraduate & Graduate Students

Danielle Struble-Fitzsimmons, Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine

Incorporating Simulation and Case-Based Learning Strategies to Improve DPT Integumentary Education

Course l Management of Integumentary Impairments
Semester l Spring 2024
Audience l Graduate Students

Thomas Groll, Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of International and Public Affairs  

EconPractice for Microeconomics

Course l Microeconomics for International and Public Affairs
Semester l Fall 2023
Audience l Graduate Students

Heidi Allen, Associate Professor of Social Work

MDMA-Assisted Therapy Simulation Videos

Course l Psychedelic Practice: Foundations of Psychedelic Healing in Clinical Social Work Practice
Semester l Spring 2024
Audience l Graduate Students

Amy Werman, Lecturer in the Discipline of Social Work

MDMA-Assisted Therapy Simulation Videos

Course l Psychedelic Practice: Foundations of Psychedelic Healing in Clinical Social Work Practice
Semester l Spring 2024
Audience l Graduate Students

Brooke Stott, Program Manager

MDMA-Assisted Therapy Simulation Videos

Course l Psychedelic Practice: Foundations of Psychedelic Healing in Clinical Social Work Practice
Semester l Spring 2024
Audience l Graduate Students

Shivani Ghoshal, Assistant Professor of Neurology

The Professional Pivot Pilot Study: A Simulation-Enhanced Curriculum to Improve Medical Student Communication Frameworks in Hierarchical Bias

Course l Ready for Residency
Semester l Spring 2024
Audience l Graduate Students

Rini Banerjee Ratan, Berkowitz Family Professor of Women’s Health

The Professional Pivot Pilot Study: A Simulation-Enhanced Curriculum to Improve Medical Student Communication Frameworks in Hierarchical Bias

Course l Ready for Residency
Semester l Spring 2024
Audience l Graduate Students

Michelle Bell, Assistant Professor of Neurology

The Professional Pivot Pilot Study: A Simulation-Enhanced Curriculum to Improve Medical Student Communication Frameworks in Hierarchical Bias

Course l Ready for Residency
Semester l Spring 2024
Audience l Graduate Students

Michela Biasutti, Lamont Research Professor in the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Using Flipped Classroom Pedagogy to Enhance Individualized Learning for a Diverse Student Body in the Interdisciplinary Climate and Society MA Program

Course l Dynamics of Climate Variability and Change
Semester l Fall 2023
Audience l Graduate Students

Mingfang Ting, Professor of Climate 

Using Flipped Classroom Pedagogy to Enhance Individualized Learning for a Diverse Student Body in the Interdisciplinary Climate and Society MA Program

Course l Dynamics of Climate Variability and Change
Semester l Fall 2023
Audience l Graduate Students

Spring 2022 Innovative Course Design RFP Awardees and Courses

Christian Braneon, Climate Scientist at Columbia Climate School

Bringing Environmental and Climate Justice Tools into the Classroom: Using Inquiry-Based Learning and Systems Thinking Interventions to Enhance Teaching

Course l Climate Justice
Semester l Spring 2023
Audience l Graduate Students

Natalie Unwin-Kuruneri, Senior Director of Academic Initiatives at Columbia Climate School

Bringing Environmental and Climate Justice Tools into the Classroom: Using Inquiry-Based Learning and Systems Thinking Interventions to Enhance Teaching

Course l Climate Justice
Semester l Spring 2023
Audience l Graduate Students

Alix Schroder, Associate Director of Academic Initiatives at Columbia Climate School

Bringing Environmental and Climate Justice Tools into the Classroom: Using Inquiry-Based Learning and Systems Thinking Interventions to Enhance Teaching

Course l Climate Justice
Semester l Spring 2023
Audience l Graduate Students

Rachel Cummings, Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

Introducing Case-Based Teaching into Interdisciplinary Data Privacy Education

Course l Policy for Privacy Technologies
Semester l Spring 2023
Audience l Undergraduate & Graduate Students

Alan J. Detton, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine

Proposal for a novel elective bridging 3D printing and medical educator skill development

Course l 3D Medical Printing and Backward Design
Semester l Spring 2023
Audience l Graduate Students

Todd A. Bates, Assistant Clinical Professor of Education Assessment (in Medicine)

Proposal for a novel elective bridging 3D printing and medical educator skill development

Course l 3D Medical Printing and Backward Design
Semester l Spring 2023
Audience l Graduate Students

Ari Goldman, Professor of Journalism

Covering Religion

Course l Covering Religion
Semester l Spring 2023
Audience l Graduate Students

Gregory N. Khalil, Adjunct Assistant Professor

Covering Religion

Course l Covering Religion
Semester l Spring 2023
Audience l Graduate Students

Thomas Groll, Senior Lecturer of International and Public Affairs

Assignment Builder for EconPractice and Adaptive E-Learning Assignments

Course l Macroeconomics for International and Public Affairs
Semester l Spring 2023
Audience l Graduate Students

Christine Mauro, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics

A Growth Mind-set Intervention for a Graduate-Level Biostatistics Course: Research-based Strategies to Mitigate Threats to Academic Belonging

Course l Research Methods and Applications
Semester l Fall 2022
Audience l Graduate Students

Leah Hooper, Senior Director of Educational Initiatives; Associate in Sociomedical Sciences

A Growth Mind-set Intervention for a Graduate-Level Biostatistics Course: Research-based Strategies to Mitigate Threats to Academic Belonging

Course l Research Methods and Applications
Semester l Fall 2022
Audience l Graduate Students

Agnieszka Legutko, Lecturer in Yiddish

Building an Online Archive: A Meaningful Engagement with the Past in a Literature Course

Course l Magic and Monsters in Yiddish Literature
Semester l Spring 2023
Audience l Undergraduate & Graduate Students

Rochelle Mendonca, Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation & Regenerative Medicine

Developing and Implementing an Assistive Technology and Modifications Course to Build Skills and Competency in Technology-Based Interventions for Graduate Occupational Therapy Students

Course l Assistive Technology and Modification
Semester l Fall 2022
Audience l Graduate Students

Youssef Nouhi, Senior Lecturer in Arabic

Proposal for Innovative Course Design (Standard Arabic for Heritage Speakers)

Course l Arabic for Heritage Speakers I
Semester l Fall 2022
Audience l Undergraduate & Graduate Students

Zhongqi Shi, Senior Lecturer in Chinese

Use of Video-Based Reflection and Interactive Feedback to Improve Speaking in Foreign Language Classes

Course l Business Chinese I
Semester l Fall 2022
Audience l Undergraduate & Graduate Students

Martha Sliwinski, Associate Professor of Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine

Developing Capacity and Digital Modules to Expand Self Compassion and Mindfulness Practice for Health Practitioner Students

Course l Self Compassion and Mindfulness
Semester l Spring 2023
Audience l Graduate Students

Drew Youngren, Lecturer of Applied Physics & Applied Mathematics

3Demos: Bringing Interactivity to Visualizations in Calculus

Course l Multivariable Calculus for Engineers and Applied Scientists
Semester l Fall 2022
Audience l Undergraduate Students

Spring 2021 Innovative Course Design RFP Awardees and Courses

Sarah Hansen, Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Chemistry

Mixing Modalities in the General Chemistry Laboratory

Course l General Chemistry Laboratory & Lab Lecture
Semester l Fall 2021
Audience l Undergraduate Students

Nakul Verma, Lecturer in the Discipline of Computer Science

A Fast and Effective AI Approach for Student Feedback in Proof-Based Computer Science Courses

Course l Discrete Mathematics
Semester l Fall 2021
Audience l Undergraduate Students

Ansaf Salleb-Aouissi, Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Computer Science

A Fast and Effective AI Approach for Student Feedback in Proof-Based Computer Science Courses

Course l Discrete Mathematics
Semester l Fall 2021
Audience l Undergraduate Students

Nikhar Gaikwad, Assistant Professor of Political Science

Case Study: Pedagogical Approach to International Political Economy

Course l Governing the Global Economy
Semester l Spring 2022
Audience l Undergraduate Students

Ben Orlove, Professor of International and Public Affairs; Director of Master’s Program in Climate and Society

Using Project-Based Learning to Improve Student Learning about Climate-Related Risk

Course l Managing and Adapting to Climate Variability and Change
Semester l Spring 2022
Audience l Graduate Students

Cathy Vaughan, Associate Director for Monitoring & Evaluation

Using Project-Based Learning to Improve Student Learning about Climate-Related Risk

Course l Managing and Adapting to Climate Variability and Change
Semester l Spring 2022
Audience l Graduate Students

Alfredo Spagna, Lecturer in the Discipline of Psychology

Building a Bridge Between Theory and Practice: Blended Learning Meets Behavioral Neuroscience

Course l Behavioral Neuroscience
Semester l Spring 2022
Audience l Undergraduate Students

Nancy Owen, Instructor of Nursing

Telehealth Clinical Simulation for Public Health Nursing

Course l The Science and Practice of Community and Public Health Nursing
Semester l Spring 2022
Audience l Graduate Students

Karol DiBello, Associate Professor of Nursing

Telehealth Clinical Simulation for Public Health Nursing

Course l The Science and Practice of Community and Public Health Nursing
Semester l Spring 2022
Audience l Graduate Students

Dolores Barbazán Capeáns, Lecturer in Spanish

Brainscape Lifelong learning for Spanish Intermediate II: Developing fluency in Spanish language acquisition through the applications of theories from the science of learning

Course l Spanish Intermediate II
Semester l Fall 2021
Audience l Undergraduate Students

Leyre Alejaldre Biel, Lecturer in Spanish

Brainscape Lifelong learning for Spanish Intermediate II: Developing fluency in Spanish language acquisition through the applications of theories from the science of learning

Course l Spanish Intermediate II
Semester l Fall 2021
Audience l Undergraduate Students

Amanda Sarafian, Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine (Occupational Therapy)

Utilizing Case-based Teaching and Simulation Technology to Engage Students and Develop Clinical Competency in a Pediatric Occupational Therapy Graduate Course

Course l Occupational Therapy with Children and Adolescents II
Semester l Spring 2022
Audience l Graduate Students

Zhongqi Shi, Senior Lecturer in Chinese; Associate Director of the Chinese Language Program

Teaching Business Chinese Language and Culture with Podcasts

Course l Business Chinese
Semester l Fall 2021
Audience l Undergraduate and Graduate Students

Jean-Marie Alves-Bradford, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry

Incorporating Technology in an Advocacy, Allyship and Upstander Skills Curriculum for Medical Students

Course l Foundations of Clinical Medicine Seminars
Semester l Fall 2021
Audience l Graduate Students

Pascale Hubert Leibler, Senior Lecturer in French

Transferring the Contents of the Newly Redesigned Intermediate French I Course onto an EdBlogs Website

Course l Intermediate French I
Semester l Fall 2021
Audience l Undergraduate Students

Spring 2020 Innovative Course Design RFP Awardees and Courses

Denise Cruz, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Reimagining the Humanities Lecture in a Transnational, Post-Pandemic World

Course l Introduction to Asian American Literature
Semester l Fall 2020
Audience l Undergraduate Students

Rym Bettaieb, Lecturer in Arabic

Shahid Listening Website

Course l First Year Arabic I, First Year Arabic II, Second Year Arabic I, Second Year Arabic II
Semester l Spring 2021
Audience l Undergraduate and Graduate Students

Nakul Verma, Lecturer in Discipline

A Fast and Effective AI Approach for Student Feedback in Proof-Based CS Courses

Course l Discrete Mathematics
Semester l Fall 2020, Spring 2021
Audience l Undergraduate Students

Ansaf Salleb-Aouissi, Senior Lecturer in Discipline

A Fast and Effective AI Approach for Student Feedback in Proof-Based CS Courses

Course l Discrete Mathematics
Semester l Fall 2020, Spring 2021
Audience l Undergraduate Students

Yevgeniy Yesilevskiy, Lecturer of Mechanical Engineering

Introducing Experimental Design to Promote Active Learning

Course l Mechanical Engineering Laboratory
Semester l Fall 2020
Audience l Undergraduate Students

Ovita Williams, Adjunct Lecturer, Columbia School of Social Work

FIVE SESSIONS: Practice Dynamics of Power, Race, Oppression, and Privilege through Simulation Based Learning

Course l Simulation-based Learning: Practicing Advanced Clinical and Advocacy Skills through the PROP lens Using Five Sessions Play
Semester l Spring 2021
Audience l Graduate Students

Beth Barron, Associate Professor of Medicine

Self-Directed Learning Resources for Clinical Skills

Course l Foundations of Medicine Tutorials
Semester l Fall 2020
Audience l Graduate Students

Karol DiBello, Assistant Professor of Nursing

Flipped Classroom Redesign Proposal for Care Coordination

Course l Care Coordination
Semester l Summer 2021
Audience l Graduate Students

Dana March-Palmer, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology 

Redesign for Student Mastery and Success in Research Methods: Quantitative Foundations

Course l Quantitative Foundations
Semester l Fall 2020
Audience l Graduate Students

Nataliya Pilipenko, Assistant Professor in Medicine and Psychiatry

Clinical Interviewing in Primary Care Settings

Course l Major Clinical Year, Primary Care Clerkship
Semester l Fall 2020
Audience l Graduate Students

Christopher Tedeschi, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

Wilderness, Environmental and Disaster Medicine: Reimagining an Austere Medicine Curriculum

Course l Wilderness and Disaster Medicine
Semester l Spring 2021
Audience l Graduate Students

Alexandra Watson, Lecturer, Barnard College

Room to Improve: Digital Tools for Measuring Student-Writer Growth

Course l First Year Writing
Semester l Fall 2020
Audience l Undergraduate Students

Isobel Contento, Mary Swartz Rose Professor of Nutrition and Education, Teachers College

Facilitating Students Learning the Processes of Designing Effective Environmentally Supportive Nutrition Education

Course l Strategies for Nutrition Education and Health Behavior Change
Semester l Fall 2020
Audience l Graduate Students

Spring 2019 Hybrid Learning RFP Awardees and Courses

Nina Alvarez, Assistant Professor of Journalism

Video Newsroom: Meeting the Needs of a New Generation and a Changing Media World

Course l Video Newsroom
Semester l Spring 2020
Audience l Graduate Students

Ofelia Mangen, Educational Designer, and Technologist

Video Newsroom: Meeting the needs of a new generation and a changing media world

Course l Video Newsroom
Semester l Spring 2020
Audience l Graduate Students

Amy Singer, Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia Journalism School

Video Newsroom: Meeting the needs of a new generation and a changing media world

Course l Video Newsroom
Semester l Spring 2020
Audience l Graduate Students

Glenn Denning, Professor of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs

Global Food Systems – Hybrid Course Learning Course Redesign and Delivery Proposal

Course l Global Food Systems
Semester l Spring 2020
Audience l Graduate Students

Martina Pavlicova, Associate Professor of Biostatistics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Creating Online Version of the Course to Target the Broad Audience and Implementing Team-Based Learning

Course l Applied Regression I
Semester l Spring 2020
Audience l Graduate Students

Barbara Rockenbach, Associate University Librarian for Research & Learning

From Books to Bytes: Navigating the Research Ecosystem

Course l Complex Medical Conditions
Semester l Summer 2020
Audience l Undergraduate and Graduate Students

M. Katherine Shear, Marion E. Kenworthy Professor of Psychiatry in Social Work

Developing students’ clinical skills via the use of scripted realistic client-therapist videos for targeted fine-grained practice and meaningful instructor feedback and coaching

Course l Introduction to Grief Therapy
Semester l Fall 2019
Audience l Graduate Students

Alfredo Spagna, Lecturer in the Discipline of Psychology

Do’s and Don’ts in Cognitive Neuroscience: Promoting Critical Thinking using a Hybrid Neuropsychology Course

Course l Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology
Semester l Spring 2020
Audience l Undergraduate Students

Barbara Spinelli, Senior Lecturer in the Discipline 

Hybrid Learning and Multilingualism: Re-Designing an Introductory Italian Course for Plurilingual Speakers

Course l Intensive Elementary Italian
Semester l Spring 2020
Audience l Undergraduate and Graduate Students

Pallavi Utukuri, Assistant Professor

Re-Imagining Radiology Education: An Interactive Blended Learning Approach to Radiology Education Using the Flipped Classroom Pedagogy

Course l Diagnostic Radiology
Semester l Spring 2020
Audience l Graduate Students

Huiming Yin, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and of Mechanics 

Design and Development of a New Hybrid Learning Course of Energy Harvesting 

Course l Energy Harvesting
Semester l Fall 2019
Audience l Undergraduate and Graduate Students

Yi Zhang, Associate in Discipline of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

Adopting Immediate Feedback Assessment Technique (IF-AT) for Computational Subjects

Course l Simulation
Semester l Fall 2019
Audience l Undergraduate and Graduate Students

Spring 2018 Hybrid Learning RFP Awardees and Courses

Andres Bendesky, Assistant Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology

Principles and Practice in Modern Genomic Data Science

CoursePrinciples and Practice in Modern Genomic Data Science
Semester l Spring 2019
Audience l Undergraduate and Graduate Students

Deren Eaton, Assistant Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology

Principles and Practice in Modern Genomic Data Science

CoursePrinciples and Practice in Modern Genomic Data Science
Semester l Spring 2019
Audience l Undergraduate and Graduate Students

Doru Cojoc, Lecturer in the Discipline of International and Public Affairs

Visualizing Theory Using Online Simulations

Course l Quantitative Analysis for Public and International Affairs
Semester l Spring 2019
Audience l Graduate Students

Isobel Contento, Mary Swartz Rose Professor of Nutrition and Education

Facilitating students learning the processes of effective nutrition through blending the fields of nutrition science, psychology, education and communication

Course l Strategies for nutrition education and health behavior change
Semester l Spring 2019
Audience l Graduate Students

Wing Fu, Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine (Physical Therapy) at the Columbia University Medical Center, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Developing Students’ Clinical Reasoning through a Hybrid Doctoral Course with Low-Cost Patient Simulations

Course l Complex Medical Conditions
Semester l Fall 2018
Audience l Graduate Students

Nikhar Gaikwad, Instructor in Political Science

Video and Case Study Pedagogy in International Political Economy

Course l Governing the Global Economy
Semester l Spring 2019
Audience l Undergraduate Students

Vanessa Guida, Lecturer in the Discipline of Undergraduate Writing

Self-Directed Online Academic Writing Course for International Students

Course l University Writing for International Students
Semester l Fall 2018
Audience l Undergraduate Students

Kim Hekimian, Assistant Professor of Nutrition (in Pediatrics and in the Institute of Human Nutrition) at the Columbia University Medical Center, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Research Methods in Global and Population Health

Course l Research Methods in Global and Population Health
Semester l Spring 2019
Audience l Undergraduate and Graduate Students

David Helfand, Professor of Astronomy and Chair of the Department of Astronomy

Simulating the Universe: Stimulating Active Learning

Course l Earth, Moon, and Planets
Semester l Spring 2019
Audience l Undergraduate Students

Dana March, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the Columbia University Medical Center, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Hybrid Learning for Quantitative Foundations

Course l Research Methods: Quantitative Foundations
Semester l Fall 2018
Audience l Graduate Students

Mary Ann Price, Lecturer in the Discipline of Biological Sciences

Improving the Implementation of Case Studies in Physiology 

Course l General Physiology
Semester l Fall 2018
Audience l Undergraduate Students

Sharon Schwartz, Professor of Epidemiology at the Columbia University Medical Center, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Epidemiology II: Going all the way with TBL

Course l Design and Conduct of Observational Epidemiologic Studies
Semester l Spring 2019
Audience l Graduate Students

Katherine Shear, Marion E. Kenworthy Professor of Psychiatry in Social Work

Redesigning “Introduction to Grief Therapy” with Interactive Videos

Course l Introduction to Grief Therapy
Semester l Fall 2018
Audience l Graduate Students

Spring 2017 Hybrid Learning RFP Awardees and Courses

Sharon R. Akabas, Associate Professor of Nutrition

Redesigning an interdisciplinary foods course from a systems thinking perspective

Course l Food Ecology and Globalization
Semester l Fall 2017
Audience l Undergraduate and Graduate Students

Eleanor Sterling, Adjunct Senior Research Scientist 

Redesigning an interdisciplinary foods course from a systems thinking perspective

Course l Food Ecology and Globalization
Semester l Fall 2017
Audience l Undergraduate and Graduate Students

William E. Bailey, Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

Interactive web-facing simulations in the physical properties of materials (two-semester sequence, MSAE4206 and MSAE4215)

Course l Electronic and magnetic properties of solids; mechanical properties of materials
Semester l Fall 2017
Audience l Undergraduate and Graduate Students

Jose Antonio Castellanos-Pazos, Lecturer of Portuguese and Spanish

Maximizing Class Time Learning by Flipping a Classroom: an Elementary Comprehensive Portuguese I/II for Spanish Speakers Course

Course l Elementary Comprehensive Portuguese I/II for Spanish Speakers
Semester l Fall 2017
Audience l Undergraduate Students

Angelina Craig-Florez, Senior Lecturer in Discipline

Beyond the Textbook: A Hybrid Redesign for Spanish Intermediate II

Course l Spanish Intermediate II
Semester l Spring 2018
Audience l Undergraduate Students

William B. Eimicke, Professor in the Practice of International and Public Affairs

EMPA Program Technology Supported Curriculum Redesign

Course l Public Management Innovation
Semester l Fall 2017
Audience l Graduate Students

Lenin Grajo, Assistant Professor at CUMC

Developing Client-Centered and Function-based Outcome Measures through a Hybrid Doctoral Course on Measurement and Instrumentation

Course l Theories of Measurement and Instrument Development
Semester l Spring 2018
Audience l Graduate Students

Kevin Griffin, Professor and Chair, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology

Engaging students and improving learning outcomes in a blended classroom: A redesign of EESC 4550 Plant Physiological Ecology

Course l Plant Physiological Ecology
Semester l Fall 2017
Audience l Undergraduate and Graduate Students

Thomas Groll, Lecturer in Discipline

Adaptive e-Learning in Economics

Course l U4201
Semester l Spring 2018
Audience l Graduate Students

Thai Jones, Herbert H. Lehman Curator for American History

Hybrid Learning and Redesign Course Proposal for the Sixties in the Archives

Course l The Sixties in the Archive
Semester l Spring 2018
Audience l Undergraduate and Graduate Students

Shantanu Lal, Associate Professor of Dental Medicine at CUMC

Virtual Reality For Dental Anxiety Management: A Paradigm Shift In Healthcare Education

Course l Pediatric Dentistry
Semester l Spring 2018
Audience l Graduate Students

Silvia Martins, Associate Professor of Epidemiology

Principles of Epidemiology: an upgraded flipped classroom proposal

Course lPrinciples of Epidemiology
Semester l Fall 2017
Audience l Graduate Students

Caroline Braun Marvin, Director of Instruction and Lecturer in the Discipline of Psychology

Engagement through Exploration and Experimentation: Building “21st-Century Skills” in an Introductory Neuroscience Course

Course l Mind, Brain, & Behavior
Semester l Fall 2017
Audience l Undergraduate Students

Letty Moss-Salentijn, Zegarelli Professor of Dental Medicine

Local anesthesia: VR/AR learning tool development

Course l Local anesthesia
Semester l Spring 2018
Audience l Graduate Students

Kathleen Mullen, Assistant Professor of Nursing

Team Based Learning of the Nursing Process

Course lThe Science of Nursing Practice
Semester l Summer 2018
Audience l Graduate Students

Jose P Ruiz Campillo, Senior Lecturer

Building gamification and interactivity to drive out of class work in Spanish Language courses

Course l Elementary Spanish II
Semester l Spring 2018
Audience l Undergraduate Students

Ansaf Salleb-Aouissi, Lecturer in Discipline

Adding a Chatbot to answer FAQs in Massive Open Online Courses

Course l Artificial Intelligence MicroMasters
Semester l Fall 2017
Audience l Undergraduate and Graduate Students

Soda Mariame Iyane Sy, Lecturer in Discipline

A Technology-based Supplemental Redesign for Elementary Wolof

Course l Elementary Wolof
Semester l Fall 2017
Audience l Undergraduate and Graduate Students

Bette Weneck, Associate Director and Lecturer, Center on History and Education

Mapping the History of Education in New York City

Course l History of Education in New York City
Semester l Spring 2018
Audience l Graduate Students

Spring 2016 Hybrid Learning RFP Awardees and Courses

Peter Allen, Professor of Computer Science

Hands-On Learning: A ‘Flipped’ Laboratory for An Introductory Robotics Course

Course l Computational Aspects of Robotics
Semester l Fall 2016
Audience l Undergraduate and Graduate Students

Jonathan Barasch, Professor of Medicine and Pathology

Simulation for Active Learning in Preclinical Medical Education

Course l Molecular Mechanisms
Semester l Fall 2016
Audience l Graduate Students

Mary Marshall Clark, Senior Research Scientist, INCITE

Transforming Oral History Through Teaching Visual Literacy

Course l Oral History Method and Theory
Semester l Fall 2016
Audience l Graduate Students

​Elisabeth Counselman Carpenter, Lecturer in Social Work

Proposed Hybrid Experiential Model of Advanced Social Work Practice with Children and Families

Course l Advanced Clinical Practice with Children and Families
Semester l Fall 2016
Audience l Graduate Students​​

Yaniv Erlich, Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Teaching Computational Genomics Using Hands-On Mobile DNA Sequencers

Course l Ubiquitous Genomics
Semester l Fall 2016
Audience l Undergraduate and Graduate Students​​

​Federica Franze, Lecturer in Italian

Collaborating Overseas. Columbia Students and Italian Pre-Service Teachers: A New Framework for Online Teaching and Learning

Course l Advanced Conversation II
Semester l Spring 2017
Audience l Undergraduate Students​​

Deepthiman Gowda, Associate Professor of Medicine

Making Physical Exam Education Stick with Applied Clinical Thinking Modules (ACTs): Clinical Skills Training Using Case-Based eLearning

Course l Foundations of Clinical Medicine Tutorials
Semester l Fall 2016
Audience l Graduate Students​​

Kevin Griffin, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Teaching Forest Ecology On An Urban Campus: Merging Classroom and Field Pedagogies

Course l Forest Ecology
Semester l Fall 2016
Audience l Undergraduate and Graduate Students​​

​​Thomas Groll, Lecturer in International and Public Affairs

Adaptive e-Learning in Economics

Course l Macroeconomics for International and Public Affairs
Semester l Spring 2017
Audience l Graduate Students​​

Henry Hess, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Redesigning BMEN E4580: Fundamentals of Nanobioscience and Nanobiotechnology

Course l Fundamentals of Nanobioscience and Nanobiotechnology
Semester l Spring 2017
Audience l Undergraduate and Graduate Students​​

Ioannis KougioumtzoglouAssistant Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

A Flipped Classroom Approach to Mechanics and Uncertainty and Risk in Civil Infrastructure Systems by Utilizing a Web-Based Interactive Tool

Course l Mechanics/Uncertainty and Risk in Civil Infrastructure Systems 
Semester l Fall 2016
Audience l Undergraduate and Graduate Students

Patricia Lindemann, Lecturer in Psychology

Applying Concepts and Improving Critical Thinking: A Hybrid Redesign for Experimental Psychology: Human Behavior

Course l Experimental Psychology: Human Behavior
Semester l Spring 2017
Audience l Undergraduate Students​​

Reyes Llopis-Garcia, Lecturer in Spanish

A Flipped Approach to the Grammatical Curriculum of the Spanish Language Program: The Case of the Intermediate II Level

Course l Intermediate Spanish
Semester l Spring 2017
Audience l Undergraduate Students​​

Kyle Mandli, Assistant Professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics

Incorporating Active Learning and Group Coding Projects for Computational Courses in Applied Mathematics 

Course l Introduction to Numerical Methods
Semester l Fall 2016
Audience l Undergraduate and Graduate Students

Caroline Marvin, Director of Instruction and Lecturer in the Discipline of Psychology

Enhancing Core Knowledge and Promoting Scientific Thinking Skills: A Hybrid Redesign of Mind, Brain, and Behavior

Course l Mind, Brain, and Behavior
Semester l Spring 2017
Audience l Undergraduate Students​​

Pamela Smith, Seth Low Professor of History

Graduate Digital Humanities Course: “What is a Book in the 21st Century?”

Course l What is a Book in the 21st Century? Working with Historical Texts in a Digital Environment
Semester l Spring 2017
Audience l Graduate Students

​Lance Weiler, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Film

Digital Storytelling: Building Storyworlds

Course l New Media Producing
Semester l Fall 2016
Audience l Graduate Students

Susan Witte, Associate Professor of Social Work

Social Support in Health and Mental Health: Strengthening Social Networks for Relationship-Building and Healing

Course l Social Support in Health and Mental Health
Semester l Spring 2017
Audience l Graduate Students​​

Spring 2015 Hybrid Learning RFP Awardees and Courses

Laurel Abbruzzese, Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy

Promoting Interprofessional Collaborative Practice in Geriatric Care through a Technology-Enhanced Hybrid Course Re-Design

Course l Clinical Geriatrics
Semester l Summer 2016
Audience l Graduate Students

Alhelí Alvarado-Díaz, Lecturer in History

Shooting the Core: Reinterpreting Core Texts through Film, Documentary and Reportage

Course l Contemporary Civilization
Semester l Fall 2015
Audience l Undergraduate Students

Jonathan Barasch, Professor of Medicine & Pathology

Introducing Simulation for Active Learning in Preclinical Medical Education

Course l Molecular Mechanisms
Semester l Fall 2015
Audience l Graduate Students

Susan Boynton, Professor of Music

Using Music Visualization to Enrich Student Learning in Music Humanities

Course l Masterpieces of Western Music (Music Humanities)
Semester l Spring 2016
Audience l Undergraduate Students

Matthew Connelly, Professor of History

Flipping International and Global History

Course l International and Global History Since World War II
Semester l Fall 2015
Audience l Undergraduate & Graduate Students

Amy Fairchild, Professor of Sociomedical Sciences

The Core Week in Review: Hybrid Learning for Creating Enduring Understanding

Course l Master of Public Health Core Curriculum
Semester l Fall 2015
Audience l Graduate Students

Sarah Hansen, Lecturer in the Discipline of Chemistry

The Hybrid Chemistry Lab: Increasing the Depth of Interaction and Collaboration through Online Modules and Electronic Laboratory Notebooks

Course l General Chemistry Laboratory
Semester l Summer 2016
Audience l Undergraduate Students

Martin Haugh, Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

From a MOOC to Flipping the Classroom

Course l Foundations of Financial Engineering
Semester l Fall 2015
Audience l Graduate Students

Annette Insdorf, Professor of Film

Transforming Pedagogy through the Hybrid Redesign of “Analysis of Film Language”

Course l Analysis of Film Language
Semester l Spring 2016
Audience l Graduate Students

Shantanu Lal, Associate Professor of Pediatric Dentistry

Comprehensive Online Archived Care Heuristic (COACH) for Dental Education

Course l Clinical Practice Pediatric Dentistry
Semester l Fall 2015
Audience l Graduate Students

Silvia Martins, Associate Professor of Epidemiology

Principles of Epidemiology: a Flipped Classroom Proposal

Course l Principles of Epidemiology
Semester l Summer 2016
Audience l Graduate Students 

Robert O’Meally, Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English  & Comparative Literature

Harlem Renaissance in Literature, Music & Art

Course l The Harlem Renaissance
Semester l Spring 2016
Audience l  Undergraduate and Graduate Students

Miriam Rabkin, Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology

Hybrid Approaches to Global Health Research Training

Course l Introduction to Global Health Research
Semester l Summer 2016
Audience l Undergraduate and Graduate Students

Bernard Salanie, Professor of Economics

Hybrid Learning Course Redesign and Delivery for Mathematical Methods for Economists

Course l Mathematical Methods for Economists
Semester l Fall 2015
Audience l Graduate Students

Paola Valenti, Lecturer in the Discipline in International and Public Affairs

Flipping Economics

Course l Microeconomics for International and Public Affairs
Semester l Fall 2015 
Audience l Graduate Students

Amy Werman, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Social Work

An Experiential Approach to Program Evaluation

Course l Program Evaluation
Semester l Fall 2015
Audience l Graduate Students

Bryan Winn, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology

Evaluation of an Engaging, Interactive, Online Learning Tool for Ophthalmology

Course l Ophthalmology Clerkship
Semester l Fall 2015
Audience l Graduate Students

Fall 2014 Hybrid Learning RFP Awardees and Courses

Manan Ahmed, Assistant Professor of History

Borderlands: A Geo-spatial Seminar in Digital History 

Course l Borderlands Graduate Seminar
Semester l Spring 2015
Audience l Graduate Students

Susan Boynton, Professor of Music

Increasing the use of Digital Humanities Tools for Active Learning

Course l Seminar in Historical Musicology: The Middle Ages
Semester l Spring 2015
Audience l Graduate Students

Adam Cannon, Senior Lecturer in Machine Learning

Hybrid learning in a new interdisciplinary computing course

Course l Computing in Context
Semester l Fall 2015
Audience l Juniors and Seniors

Angelina Craig-Florez, Lecturer in Spanish

Student-generated iBooks and incorporation of mobile technologies in the face-to-face classroom

Course l Spain in its Art
Semester l Spring 2015
Audience l Juniors and Seniors

Donald Davis, Ragnar Nurkse Professor of Economics

The Economics of New York City, 2.0

Course l The Economics of New York City
Semester l Fall 2015
Audience l Juniors and Seniors

Rachel Gordon, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology 

Team-based learning and a flipped classroom approach for fourth-year medical students

Course l Back to Infectious Diseases 
Semester l Fall 2015
Audience l CUMC Graduate Students

Maya Hastie, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology 

Social media and dissemination of medical knowledge 

Course l Critical Care Medicine Fellowship
Semester l Spring 2015
Audience l CUMC Graduate Students

 John Hunt, Professor of Biological Sciences

Hybrid learning for physical chemistry

Course l Theoretical Foundations and Practical Applications of Biophysical Methods
Semester l Spring 2015
Audience l First-years and Sophomores

Darcy Kelley, Harold Weintraub Professor of Biological Sciences

Redesign of Frontiers of Science: Technology-enabled adaptive learning for instruction in scientific habits of mind

Course l Frontiers of Science
Semester l Fall 2015
Audience l First-years and Sophomores

Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

Hybrid learning in mechanics using a web-based interactive tool

Course l Random Processes in Mechanics
Semester l Spring 2015
Audience l Graduate Students

Philip LaRocco, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs 

Hybrid learning for Energy Business and Economic Development

Course l Energy Business and Economic Development
Semester l Spring 2015
Audience l Graduate Students

Shaoyan Qi, Lecturer in Chinese 

Closing the Loop: Linking students’ perception of Mandarin tones to their production of tones

Course l Introductory Chinese A
Semester l Spring 2015
Audience l First-years and Sophomores

Letty Moss-Salentijn, Edward V. Zegarelli Professor of Dental Medicine (in Anatomy and Cell Biology)

Hybrid learning for didactic courses in the third year of the DDS curriculum

Course l Third-year courses of College of Dental Medicine
Semester l Fall 2015
Audience l CUMC Graduate Students

Katherine Reuther, Associate in Biomedical Engineering

Technology-enhanced teaching of graduate-level biomedical design

Course l Graduate Special Topics: Biomedical Design 
Semester l Spring 2015
Audience l Graduate Students

Martha Sliwinski, Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy  

A multimedia application for developing clinical reasoning skills of physical therapy students: A blended classroom approach

Course l Concepts in Therapeutic Exercise 
Semester l Spring 2015
Audience l CUMC Graduate Students

Brent Stockwell, Professor of Biological Sciences and Chemistry

Evaluating the effectiveness of team-based science learning using a randomized controlled trial

Course l Biochemistry: Structure and Metabolism
Semester l Fall 2015
Audience l First-years and Sophomores