Open Media Lab

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Awarded Grant: $10,000 Principal Investigator: Laura Chipley, SUNY College at Old Westbury Open Media Lab will expand multimedia production teaching and learning through the creation of an online multimedia production lab. The Lab will be a public website on SUNY Commons and will consist of a series of open educational resources in the form of video and text tutorials. To support replication, these flexible modules will be easy to embed in any LMS. Tutorials will cover the basics of audio recording, moving and still image capture, editing and distribution. This project will expand access to the tools of creative, multimedia production, making it possible for any student, in any location with a smart phone, PC and Internet access to create videos, podcasts and interactive multimedia projects. This access will allow educators, across the disciplines, to expand the number of students exposed to the skills and norms of production thereby closing the digital divide and the participation gap while expanding digital literacy. Co-PI’s and Key Partners: Professor Smith, Director of the Collaborative Media Center and an Assistant Professor of video and new media, SUNY College at Old Westbury Reports and Resources: Mid-project report

On the Road with SUNY

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Principal Investigator: James Kimball, Genesee Community College This project will leverage the motivational learning potential of popular music to enhance the understanding of major social issues in the history of New York State. We request support for planning focused on pedagogical design, content and public partnership development that will lead to a mobile app that ties artistic and scholarly content to museums and cultural institutions around the state through GPS technology. The GPS locater will deliver modularized, on demand content relevant to the cultural/historical site. A web-based platform will accompany the mobile app to offer the same content from any location. This app will leverage both SUNY resources and historical/cultural resources across the state for deep explorations of our state’s history for SUNY students, faculty, K12 students and the general public. This project will also demonstrate the vital role that music plays in understanding social issues. Music, like other art forms, serves to reflect and/or drive public understanding of unfolding questions of equality, democracy and more. This arts-integrated curriculum and the resulting mobile app will provide an “on ramp” to complex social issues for scholars, students and the general public while celebrating the work of SUNY faculty and students. This planning project will assemble a diverse team of scholars, educators, students, cultural leaders, technical specialists and business leaders to ensure that the design and delivery of the resulting technology will have maximum impact upon public dialogue surrounding the enduring questions of New York State history. Furthermore, this platform will be scaled up in subsequent phases to increase public access to many other art collections that lie relatively hidden on SUNY campus across the state. Co-PI’s and Key Partners: Glenn McClure, Lecturer for Departments of English and Music, SUNY Geneseo Karen Canning, Director, GLOW Traditions, Genesee-Orleans Regional Arts Council, Batavia NY Reports and Resources:

iPad Mechanics Physics Instruction

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Awarded Grant: $10,000 Principal Investigator: Dan MacIsaac, Buffalo State We propose to create videos and written lab instructions as useable learning objects for teachers of physics both at the HS and College level. These materials will be shared across and outside of SUNY via the SUNY Digital Learning Commons. We will obtain and integrate 11 IPads running Vernier Software’s _Vernier Physics App for iOS_ (cited in MERLOT II) into Introductory Mechanics and Teaching Introductory Mechanics courses (PHY107, 111, 510 and 620) using technology for video data collection and analysis of motion data in instructional laboratories. We will use video capture of mechanical phenomena (Eg dropped, tossed, rotating, and colliding objects) to study projectile motion, directly measure object linear and angular displacement, velocity and acceleration, fitting and selecting appropriate mathematical models to mechanics in laboratory exercises. We will develop three appropriate laboratory experiments making use of the system for kinematics – gravitation/projectile motion, momentum conservation, and rotational dynamics. We also have longer-term plans to use the iPads for additional open-ended media physics projects and investigations. Co-PI’s and Key Partners: David S Abbott, Instructional Support Specialist, Department of Physics, Buffalo State Kathleen Falconer, Part-Time Lecturer for Department of Mathematics, Buffalo State David Ettestad, Associate Professor of Physics, Buffalo State David Henry, Associate Professor of Elementary Education and Reading and Adjunct Professor of Physics, Buffalo State Brad Gearhart, physics teacher at Math Science and Technology Preparatory Academy PS#197, Buffalo Public Schools; and Summer Adjunct Instructor for Department of Physics, Buffalo State Reports and Resources: Mid-project report  

Open Door to Open SUNY – MOOC Access and Completion Project (Open Door)

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Awarded Grant: $20,000 Principal Investigator: Christine Kroll, University at Buffalo In 2012, 2.6% of institutions across the United States were offering Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) with an increase to 8% in 2014 (Babson, 2014). Open SUNY is within the 8%, entering the MOOC arena in 2013. Open SUNY MOOCs are currently being offered by faculty from Stony Brook University, University at Albany, Empire State College, Broome Community College, and Buffalo State College (OpenSUNY MOOC, 2015). In this short time, Open SUNY MOOCs have attracted and enrolled a total of 92,413 students with plans to continue growing both student enrollments and the variety of course offerings. One of the key goals of the Open Door project is to establish a process for converting unmanageable data sets to useable learning analytics. Current data sets offer some insights for MOOC faculty but lack the ease with which many learning systems allow for usable data aggregation and analysis leading to an impact on practice (Straumsheim, 2014). With nearly 100,000 enrollments and growing, establishing a process for converting this data to a useable format is paramount to our existing and future MOOC faculty developing and customizing courses leading to student access, completion, and success as well as for establishing Open SUNY MOOCs as exemplars-at-large throughout the professional and academic communities. Co-PI’s and Key Partners: Thomas Mackey, Interim Vice Provost for Academic Programs, Empire State College Trudi Jacobson, Head of Information Literacy Department, University at Albany Cyndi Burnett, Assistant Professor of International Center for Studies in Creativity, Buffalo State Val Chukhlomin, Associate Professor & Academic Coordinator Marketing & Management, Empire State College Margaret Schedel, Assistant Professor of Composition and Computer Music, Stony Brook University Yvonne Harrison, Assistant Professor of Public Administration and Policy, University at Albany Reports and Resources: Mid-project report