Awarded Grant: $3,200 Principal Investigator: Celia Easton, SUNY Geneseo A newly conceived course, “Jane Austen from New York to Bath,” provides a model for constructing online courses in the Humanities that allow students to share learning communities without walls, to communicate internationally on their course topic, and to ladder study-abroad experiences to provide international experiences to multiple students, regardless of time and financial resources. This course model demonstrates how to convert a conventional, classroom-based course into an online learning community, with the added component of content provided by students living and studying in different parts of the world. By utilizing course management software, wikis, blogs, embedded video, and file sharing, this course model demonstrates how the essence of discussion-based humanities courses can be sustained in a global, virtual classroom. Reports and Resources: Project final report Mid-project report Project outcomes form Project outcomes report 2.0 Creative Commons License:

Awarded Grant: $18,000 Principal Investigator: Paul R. Gould, Binghamton University This mobile technology initiative will provide a platform for enhanced student learning and evaluation through a three-tier training experience related to Depression, Dementia & Delirium in geriatric patients. The project will develop a cohesive series of learning modules, a simulated patient experience, and field-related patient encounter. Web-based learning modules will expose students to a broader understanding of the complex and interrelated physiological, neurological, psychological and social factors associated with depression, dementia & delirium, as how to utilize a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment in practice. Modules will also include best practices related to therapeutic interventions with geriatric populations. Simulated patients and field-related encounters allow students to practice clinical skills with older adults and families from a variety of cultural backgrounds; mobile devices and digital recordings will allow students and faculty supervisors to evaluate students’ skill application in encounters in simulation labs and field practicum sites across the Southern Tier. Co-PI’s and Key Partners: Shawn A. Berkowitz, MD, CMD, Director, UHS Geriatrics, Director Geriatric Clerkship, Upstate Medical University Suk-Young Kang, PhD, MSW, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, Binghamton University Reports and Resources: Mid-project report Project outcomes report

Our innovative IITG-funded program engages undergraduates in authentic science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Motivated by the mission to build, operate and analyze data of an experiment to investigate cosmic ray science, we offer projects and seminars for students who partake on building the necessary tools for experimentation and a web-portal for offering activities everywhere, at anytime and to everyone. There have been three important objectives as part of this project: – To offer undergraduate research projects on the topics of apps development and data acquisition systems. – To offer educational seminars and courses. In particular, a course for the Women in Science and Engineering program on “What are atoms made of?.” The curriculum was built based on the undergraduate projects. We also offered a Physics camp for high school students to motivate them to aspects of physics through a variety of hands-on activities. – To build a new web-portal based on cutting edge technology and an open-source content management framework to host the materials of the educational activities. Graduate and undergraduate students were involved in this endeavor.