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:

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:

Principal Investigator: Beth Burns, Buffalo State College Badging is an emerging trend in education that poses a new method of representing skills and achievements that may be difficult to document.  The exploration of badging has the potential to open up new ways of visually representing an individual’s skills and knowledge. The Learner eXperience Designers (LXD), a collaborative group at Buffalo State, will spearhead the exploration of integrating badging on campus and in higher education. Specifically, the LXD are committed to evaluating the logistics and effectiveness of badging in three specific areas: within a course, within a student training program, and within professional development. Co-PI’s and Key Partners: Mark McBride, Buffalo State (Co-PI) Ken Fujiuchi, Buffalo State (Co-PI) Meghan Pereira, Buffalo State (Co-PI) Jason Welborn, Buffalo State (Co-PI) Reports and Resources: Outcome description including links to relevant materials and presentations Presentation – Educause 2013 Open SUNY CourseSites – Locating, Creating, Licensing and Utilizing OERs On Teaching and Learning Blog 3T’s 2013 presentation (video captured information) Feedback from a Badge Earner (and course completer) Publications: Blackboard Blog – Buffalo State’s Journey Developing A MOOC On CourseSites Creative Commons License: