Awarded Grant: $20,000 Principal Investigator: Andrea Wade, Monroe Community College Erin O’Hara-Leslie, SUNY Broome Community College SUNY Broome Community College is at the forefront of community colleges implementing new technologies that support and scale-up pedagogy. Our leadership in online education is attested by our selection to offer one of the first fully-online degree programs to be powered by Open SUNY as well as our selection to develop a model Home Health Aide Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) with prior IITG funding. As a continuation of the newly developed Home Health Aide MOOC (Phase 1), SUNY Broome proposes to develop a format of the Phase 1 MOOC that is compatible with Coursera’s new on-demand platform. Also integral to Phase 2 are (1) creating a companion Open Educational Resource (OER)/Open Textbook; and (2) building and implementing bookend recruitment and referral web resources that connect with regional workforce structures. Phase 2 key collaborators include Central New York’s Area Health Education Center, Mohawk Valley Community College, and the Open SUNY Textbooks project. Co-PI’s and Key Partners: Erin Hildreth, Center Director/Director of Programs, Central New York Area Health Education Center Franca Armstrong, Associate Vice President of Workforce Development and Dean of Rome Campus, Mohawk Valley Community College Kate Pitcher, Interim Library Director, SUNY Geneseo Reports and Resources: Mid-project report  

Awarded Grant: $20,000 Principal Investigator: Valeri Chukhlomin, Empire State College iMOOC is a cross-campus collaborative project aimed at preparing international online learners (both on- campus and off-campus) to seamlessly navigate and successfully integrate into U.S. online learning environments by learning about the American culture, American academic system and student-centered pedagogies, and by refining critically important skills and getting familiar with some of the U.S. educational technologies. During Phase One of this project, the project team developed and prepared to launch an OPEN SUNY course “iMOOC101: Mastering American eLearning” (https://www.coursera.org/course/imooc). During Phase Two, the project team proposes to focus on sustainability and scalability of the project by: a) developing and launching a low maintenance, competency-based, on-demand version of the above course; and b) working with partner colleges (both within and outside SUNY) to develop a scalable “adoption model” where iMOOC will be incorporated into preparatory and remedial services for incoming, on-campus and off- campus international students. Co-PI’s and Key Partners: Bidhan Chandra, Professor, Empire State College Anant Deshpande, Assistant Professor, Empire State College Aiko Pletch, ESL Lecturer, Haggerty English Language Program, SUNY New Paltz Reports and Resources: Mid-project report  

Awarded Grant: $17,500 Principal Investigator: Cyndi Burnett, Buffalo State Coursera has recently announced that they want to integrate their platform with Learning Management Systems (LMS) in order that universities can incorporate MOOCs as part of their accredited course offerings. If successful, this development offers a huge opportunity to dramatically expand access to educational content, across the entire SUNY network, while still maintaining rigorous academic standards. The International Center for Studies in Creativity is currently running a MOOC, based on its 205 level Introduction to Creativity course. The faculty would like to enhance the content in order to offer it as an alternative to the seated 205 course. The efficacy of this alternative format would be established through comparisons with student performance on the seated courses. Co-PI’s and Key Partners: John Cabra, Associate Professor, International Center for Studies in Creativity, Buffalo State Selcuk Acar, Assistant Professor, International Center for Studies in Creativity, Buffalo State Reports and Resources: Mid-project report

Principal Investigator: Yvonne Harrison, University at Albany The University at Albany’s Certificate of Nonprofit Management and Leadership (CNML) jointly sponsored by Rockefeller College’s Department of Public Administration and Policy and the School of Social Welfare, is dedicated to increasing access to leadership education that meets the needs of the nonprofit sector. Designed for working professionals and students preparing for careers in the nonprofit sector, the CMNL offers five courses jointly delivered between the two schools. In 2014, one of the five courses, The Governance of Nonprofit Organizations, was transformed into a semester-based massive open online course (MOOC) with IITG funding. In January 2015, the course launched on Coursera’s online teaching and learning platform enrolling over 12,000 learners from 179 countries. 2015 IITG funding is requested to meet the demand for nonprofit leadership and management education by: Transforming the Governance of Nonprofit Organizations MOOC into an“on demand” Coursera course- working professionals and students in the SUNY system can take for academic credit through a course waiver (SUNY students) and prior learning assessment (Public) methodology. Creating new (simulations for end-of module assessments of learning) and flipping existing MOOC content, including the online team-based learning and the externally hosted academic service learning “capstone” activities for use within Coursera’s on-demand platform. Conducting longitudinal comparative research on the impact of the MOOC on student success and nonprofit governance and organizational effectiveness (through the academic service learning project). Co-PI’s and Key Partners: Vic Murray, Adjunct Professor, University of Victoria Alena Rodick, Instructional Designer, School of Graduate Studies, Empire State College Reports and Resources: