Awarded Grant: $18,500 Principal Investigator: Douglas H. Summerville, Binghamton University As the technologies behind blended-online education have matured, several new educational models have emerged which offer the potential for increased student engagement, and which can significantly increase the amount of student-teacher interaction possible for a given course. Binghamton University’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department has successfully piloted two blended-online courses centered around student-teacher interaction, and has developed several new prototype technologies which further the goals of blended-online education, including a system that allows the question generation and grading features of online questioning systems to be used in an offline lecture environment. We will generalize these technologies so they can be easily used in any educational discipline at any institution, and develop training and support materials which will allow other educators to understand and effectively use our tools. Co-PI’s and Key Partners: Kyle J. Temkin, Instructor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Binghamton University Reports and Resources: Mid-project report Project outcomes report

Principal Investigator: Changhyun Kwon, University at Buffalo The growing network-based concepts in many disciplines and the difficulties for both instructors and students in transferring the notions of networks necessitate an interactive and easy-to-access platform for efficient communication. Motivated by this need, this project will use the most recent web technologies to improve educational effectiveness in teaching both scientific concepts and computational methods in a connected world. The project aims to develop an interactive web-application that will be readily sharable with all SUNY instructors teaching network related materials. The proposed web-application will interactively respond to needs of instructors and students, and help teaching and learning difficult notions, often written in complicated mathematical notations, with visualized information. Three SUNY instructors including the PI will test the web-application in real courses. Co-PI’s and Key Partners: Ann Bisantz, Professor and Chair, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University at Buffalo Joan Lucas, Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science, SUNY College at Brockport June Dong, Professor, Department of Marketing & Management, SUNY Oswego Julia Colyar, Adjunct Instructor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education Reports and Resources: Project website Web app tutorial document Project outcomes report Mid-project report Creative Commons License:

Awarded Grant: $19,000 Principal Investigator: Thomas Giblin, SUNY Brockport The Rural Schools Virtual Project [RSVP] has several outcome goals, including: 1. Creation of a partnership model for rural schools and teacher education colleges throughout SUNY; 2. Expanded course offerings for students in rural schools; 3. Expanded teacher candidate opportunities, specifically focused on online k-12 teaching and learning. With the assistance of SUNY IITG funding, the PI and Co-PI will: a) Recruit one secondary teacher in a rural school and two teacher candidates at the College at Brockport, to collaboratively teach one high school course not available at each rural school site (e.g. through the VHS Collaborative). b) Visit the participating teacher with teacher candidates in Fall 2013. c) Supervise teacher candidates as they observe, assist, and learn to teach online with the rural secondary teacher online during Spring 2014. Reports and Resources: Final project report Article in the Journal of Educational Technology Systems Mid-project report Project outcomes report Creative Commons License:     

Awarded Grant: $19,500 Principal Investigator: Dr. Timothy W. Gerken, Morrisville State College Electronic portfolios (ePortfolios) are well established learning tools that correlate well with student success. With this project, we plan to introduce them at Morrisville State College, targeting two specific areas that reflect barriers to student success within our population – writing skills capacity and development across courses and semesters, and engagement with the writing process within first-year composition courses as it relates to retention. We want to expand the use of ePortfolios to emphasize targeted student success related to composition. We will show how ePortfolios can be used creatively to develop active, integrative learning across our curriculum and over time, through the development of an ePortfolio-based interface enabling students and faculty to trace an individual’s writing strengths, struggles, strategies, & goals. We will also trace the effectiveness of ePortfolios correlated with student success and retention within first-year composition courses. Co-PI’s and Key Partners: Wyatt Galusky, PhD, Associate Professor, Humanities; Coordinator, Science, Technology, & Society Program, Morrisville State College Aron Efimenko, Assistant Professor, Humanities, Morrisville State College Matt Barber, Network and Systems Manager, Morrisville State College Reports and Resources: Project outcomes report Presentation at SUNY Council on Writing Mid-project report Project outcomes report V2.0 Creative Commons License: