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Using CUNY Academic Commons to Engage Students
Hello, I’m Sarah Dillon, an art historian in Kingsborough’s Art Department. I have been teaching with Open Education Resources (OER) for a while now, thanks in large part to the efforts of Smarthistory, an OER with the mission of making “public art history.” I mention this at the outset because I am extremely grateful for resources like this, which have helped me move away from the traditional textbook model, but also because such resources put art historians like me in a somewhat unique position. With such an abundance of high-quality material available, I often find myself focusing more on curating and presenting the information in ways that best support my…


