Project Outcomes
E-portfolios to Engage Student Veterans at Suffolk County Community College
Susan P. Lieberthal
Suffolk County Community College
2013
Tier One
Amount of Award:$10,000.00
E-portfolio training to veterans returning as students that integrates writing, video editing and information literacy. The project will strengthen student academic engagement and result in individualized electronic presentations fort job interviews or college transfer.
Our student veterans are quite similar in learning styles to our other students in that it is hard to get students to complete assignments that are not for a specific class. However, student veterans are very attentive and appreciative of programs designed for them, and the laptops obtained for this grant have been invaluable.
Gift and Deselection Manager Online
Mark Sullivan
Geneseo
2013
Tier Two
Amount of Award:$11,500.00
Development of a workflow tool to enable coordinated collection development, last copy detection, and resource sharing. By linking gift processing, conspectus analysis, and deselection among all the SUNY libraries, GDM Online will allow for enhanced acquisitions through usage data from ILLiad systems, book lists, and circulation statistics.
IDS Project will be making GDM Online available for free to all SUNY and IDS libraries during the Fall semester. GDM Online will be advertized on the IDS website and offered for a subscription fee to non-IDS/SUNY libraries.
Developing Co-curricular Courses that Lead to Critical Thinking in On-line and Hybrid Coursework
Jeffrey Linn
Brockport
2013
Tier Two
Amount of Award:$14,500.00
Interdisciplinary project with professors in Educational Administration, Nursing and Teacher Education to investigate, design and implement curriculum for asynchronous courses that combine rigorous assignments and assessments that lead to critical thinking and are aligned with the K-12 Common Core Learning Standards.
Developing an Interactive Web-Application for Instructions Involving Networks
Changhyun Kwon
University at Buffalo
2013
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.
The E-Textbook Opportunity: The Time is Now for SUNY, Phase 2
Dean Hendrix
University at Buffalo
2013
Tier Two
Amount of Award:$20,000.00
Continued exploration of e-textbook adoption with new assessment methodologies related to student learning outcomes, developing longitudinal data sets for pinpointing trends among specific student populations, analyzing the impact of price on e-textbook adoption and investigating the feasibility of a student-centered e-textbook model.
Outcomes TBD