Project Outcomes
Student Success and Affordability through the use of Open Educational Courses
Marty Christofferson
Tompkins Cortland Community College
2013
Type of GrantIITG Tier Two
Amount of Award:$19,200.00
Support for a colloquium to grow adoption of established courses using OER, specifically Math and Psychology. TC3 has already demonstrated improved student success outcomes, retention, teaching methods, and significant savings for students as part of the Kaleidoscope project
In addition to other resources, the colloquium reportillustrates initial success with OER adoption.
SUNY Games II
Peter Shea
University at Albany
2013
Type of GrantIITG Tier Three
Amount of Award:$52,500.00
- Games (Hardware/Software)
Expansion of a joint, online, academic program that promotes understanding of games for learning and results in a network of interdisciplinary participants by partnering with industry (First Playable, Agora Games, and the atmospheric simulation and forecasting company MESO).
Website describes plans for game development across SUNY.
Tools of Engagement Project (TOEP): On-demand Discovery Learning Professional Development (Phase 2)
Roberta (Robin) Sullivan
University at Buffalo
2013
Type of GrantIITG Tier Three
Amount of Award:$60,000.00
- Cloud-Based Teaching & Learning Environments
Faculty development to support use of cloud based learning software and processes.
TOEP is now available SUNY-wide, a Scale-Up success story - see project site or contact the SUNY Center for Professional Development.
Virtual Infrastructure for Data Intensive Analysis (VIDIA)
Steven M. Gallo
University at Buffalo
2013
Type of GrantIITG Tier Three
Amount of Award:$58,000.00
- Open Educational Resources (OER)
Partnering of supercomputing infrastructure and data scientists to support undergraduate education through use OER visualization tools.
A SUNY Research Foundation "Learning Tuesdays" talk describes the VIDIA project in detail (Scroll to VIDIA specific talk at 22 minutes). Can be viewed here.
Developing an Interactive Web-Application for Instructions Involving Networks
Changhyun Kwon
University at Buffalo
2013
Type of GrantIITG Tier Two
Amount of Award:$19,800.00
Development of an interactive web-application that will be tested in three computer science classes to help teaching and learning difficult notions, often written in complicated mathematical notations, with visualized information.
The result of this project is shown by the project website, found here.