The primary goal of the project is to build software and the sharing platform to increase the availability and accessibility of easily adoptable, standardized PowerPoint (PPT) (a Microsoft technology) presentation based data structures and algorithms (DSAs) visualization materials. The proposed approach is expected to promote standardization, centralization and reuse of DSA teaching materials, as well as preparedness of DSA teaching. This project will refine the generators that have been prototyped and implement new DSA generators, focusing upon those taught at primarily undergraduate institutions (PUIs). An automated database-and-dispatcher-driven cyber platform, which releases end users from the hassle of running generators, will also be refined. The project will be evaluated at a small scale and the outcomes of the project will be disseminated at the national computer science education conferences.

Faculty Instructional Technologists at SUNY Empire State College are now in the process of creating a Faculty Development Program to be rolled out to ESC’s seven regional centers in the Spring of 2013. The program will consist of four module-based blended training units which will be designed to introduce ESC faculty and staff to several types of Web 2.0 technology tools (social media, document sharing, etc…) that have been shown to increase student learning and engagement in blended studies. Participants will engage in pre-assessment and post-assessment dialogue to allow researchers to determine the value of engagement.

Awarded Grant: $9,600 Principal Investigator: Rose McEwen, Geneseo This project entails assessing the viability and effectiveness of transforming the three foreign language courses that satisfy SUNY Geneseo’s GEN ED requirement from traditional, face-to-face teaching/learning formats to a hybrid, Quia-powered online model. Using Geneseo’s Spanish language courses as the prototype for other languages, the project evaluates the process of adopting ACTFL-based proficiency measurements to the assessment of the effectiveness of hybrid beginning- and intermediate-level courses (in comparison with traditional instruction models) in the development of the four foreign language skills: speaking, writing,listening and reading. Co-PI’s and Key Partners: Ms. Felisa Brea, Lecturer of Spanish, Department of Languages and Literatures, SUNY Geneseo Mr. Bill Heller, Lecturer of Spanish and Department’s Assessment Coordinator, Department of Languages and Literatures, SUNY Geneseo Reports and Resources: Final Report: Chronicles the process of implementing this project, including the project’s background, as well as the challenges encountered, and the resultant findings and conclusions. Powerpoint presentation, with charts that highlight the data and information described in the final report. Project outcomes report Creative Commons License:

The Online WNY Learning Alliance assists working adult students needing the flexibility of fully online degree options. OWL’s 6 member colleges provide holistic advisement to students from the outset of their college careers, which can include early exploration of post-degree options. This project will develop web-based orientation / training materials, and internal procedures, so that career and transfer exploration and assistance for online degree-seeking students occurs from day one of their college studies. This maximizes course alignment with goals, shortens time-to-completion, helps keep students in NY for career and/or baccalaureate degree opportunities, and contributes to regional workforce and economic development.