The IITG project, “The E-Textbook Opportunity: The Time is Now for SUNY,” will use IITG funds for the licensing of electronic versions of textbooks, or e-textbooks, that are used in common courses across three SUNY schools: SUNY Brockport, SUNY Buffalo and SUNY Delhi. Leveraging the extensive licensing and resource delivery expertise of the participating libraries, this pilot project seizes the opportunity that the recent emergence of e-textbooks represents to serve SUNY students more efficiently both academically and financially. The pilot will investigate the opportunities and challenges of implementing e-textbooks across diverse SUNY campuses.

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:

Awarded Grant: $25,640 Principal Investigator: Pam Youngs-Maher, Upstate Medical University Upstate Medical University utilizes a curriculum model built on didactic and theoretical constructs, and the application of those lessons in clinical settings. Direct observation and feedback is believed to be an effective method for clinical skills assessments. Implementation of observations and timely feedback are challenging due to clinical demands and preceptor availability. This project will utilize “distance faculty” (DF) to observe patient encounters via iPad and provide real-time feedback to participating students. Distance Faculty Observation (DFO) will use mobile technology (Apple iPads) for this real-time observation and feedback system. Written feedback will also be documented and available via a web-based database. The pilot will involve faculty and students in three colleges at Upstate: Medicine, Health Professions and Nursing. Co-PI’s and Key Partners: Ann Botash, Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatric Vice Chair for Educational Affairs, and Course Director for the Pediatric Clerkship at Upstate Medical University Gene Bailey, Associate Professor of Family Medicine, and Course Director for the Family Medicine Clerkship Patricia Powers, Assistant Professor of Nursing, and Course Director for the Family Nurse Practitioner Program (FNP Track) Carol Recker-Hughes, Associate Professor, Director of Clinical Education, and Vice-Chair of the Physical Therapy Education Program Joseph Smith, Director of Educational Communications Reports and Resources: Final Report Presentation – CIT 2013 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.