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Laurie Hurson

Laurie received her PhD  from the CUNY Graduate Center’s Environmental Psychology program.  Her research and work weaves together ecological approaches to learning, digital/physical space, pedagogy, and critical university studies. Laurie’s dissertation explores students’ learning ecologies and how these resource networks shape student learning and engagement. Laurie also completed her Masters thesis at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her MA project examined processes of simplistic and minimalist living.
Currently Laurie is the Assistant Director of Open Education at GC’s Teaching and Learning Center. Prior to working with the GC TLC, Laurie was a Hybrid Coordinator at Baruch College’s Center for Teaching and Learning, an Instructional Technology Fellow at Macaulay Honors College, and the Coordinator for Planning and Development of OpenCUNY.org.
Laurie  founded the TeachOER Project and, in collaboration with Dr. Shelly Eversley,  developed EqualityArchive, an OER focused on the history of sex and gender equality in the United States. She teaches Psychology at John Jay College and Principles of New Media at Baruch College.

Research Interests: [digital/physical] learning environments, learning ecologies, networks, critical pedagogies, critical university studies, science and technology studies

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