A one-day conference, Friday, October 26, 2012, at The College at Brockport will help faculty and researchers understand and safeguard intellectual property rights in producing and consuming information. The May 2012 federal court decision in the closely-watched Georgia State case makes the conversation especially timely. The program will include discussion of the copyright and licensing environments in general, and alternatives to current models including the open access movement.

Awarded Grant: $20,000 Principal Investigator: Mark Ludwig, University at Buffalo We will implement an instance of VIVO open-source, semantic web based software to provide an e-portfolio service for SUNY students. Since VIVO tracks scholarly works, publications, research, awards, projects and detailed specialties of interest, it serves as a springboard for open access scholarly communication. We will provide video based educational modules explaining the virtues of the open access movement along with practical instructions for making contributions to repositories and linking works to a personal VIVO profile. A final report will be submitted and publicly posted in the UB Institutional Repository. It will summarize the results of student pilots, student survey results and metrics from web statistics. Recommendations will be offered regarding the efficacy of VIVO for supporting emerging SUNY scholars Co-PI’s and Key Partners: A. Ben Wagner, SUNY Buffalo Dean Hendrix, SUNY Buffalo Andrew Perry, SUNY Oneonta Reports and Resources: SUNYport Final Report Project outcomes report Creative Commons License:

Awarded Grant: $15,000 Principal Investigator: Gary Halada, Stony Brook University At Stony Brook University we will create an electronic portfolio approach to ensure a meaningful, academically rigorous outcome from internships, including a template based upon standards and goals of experiential learning and a website which connects students with internships and builds dissemination with the Long Island Alternative Energy Consortium of seven academic institutions dedicated to strengthening energy education. The project includes workshops for internship supervisors, representatives from regional industrial associations, faculty coordinators, and experts in experiential learning, eportfolios and assessment, to enhance the template and website, explore best practices for experiential learning, generate internships, and assess progress and benefits to both student learning and workforce development. Reports and Resources: Poster presentation from the “SPARKS of INNOVATION: The Future of Teaching and Learning” conference at Stony Brook University, Friday, April 12, 2013, entitled “Electronic Portfolios to Enhance Experiential Learning and Assessment in Internship Courses”. The poster summarizes the design of the project in which electronic portfolios (eportfolios) are to be used as an ideal mechanism to enhance experiential learning in undergraduate internships. Eportfolios are envisioned as a method to enhance instructors’ ability to assess student learning outcomes and the ability of industrial mentors to supervise and direct interns. Further, we show how eportfolios, through student reflection and direct assessment of activities, can help programs meet the challenges of program accreditation. IITG-poster-Halada.pdf Oral presentation from the “SPARKS of INNOVATION: The Future of Teaching and Learning” conference at Stony Brook University, Friday, April 12, 2013, entitled “Electronic Portfolios to Enhance Experiential Learning and Assessment in Internship Courses”. e-internship-Sparks-presentation-2013.pdf A video of the presentation is available for download: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx4tkG7Nn9I The electronic portfolio template developed for this project details what is expected as learning outcomes from students in internships. InternEmployersurveyed2012.doc Project Website: https://stonybrook.digication.com/engineering_internships/Welcome/ Project outcomes report Creative Commons License:

A consortium of five SUNY campuses (SUNY Cobleskill, SUNY Empire State College, The College at Old Westbury, Purchase College, and SUNY Ulster) and the SUNY Levin Institute propose to strengthen the adoption of e-Portfolio initiatives on participating campuses through creating a Cross-Cultural Experiential Learning Evaluation Toolkit that improves the development and assessment of international experiential learning activities. The Toolkit will provide guidance to faculty to create and deliver international experiential learning activities that strengthen students’ cross-cultural skills and will also provide guidance to students to document their learning artifacts and to produce effective reflection pieces to appear in their e-Portfolios. The Toolkit will be piloted in COIL courses, study abroad experiences, faculty-led trips, in-class curricular efforts, and international service learning experiences. Upon completion of the pilot, the Toolkit will be revised and shared with e-Portfolio teams on participating campuses and widely shared to relevant programs across SUNY.