Project Outcomes
Development and Assessment of Openly Available WeBWorK Problem Sets for Underserved Mathematics Courses
Dr. Keith Jones, Asst. Professor - Mathmatics
Oneonta
2017
Type of GrantIITG Tier One
Amount of Award:$9,800.00
- Open Source Programs and Apps
This project will improve student outcomes in general education and teacher preparation mathematics courses by developing problem sets for the free and open source WeBWorK online homework system, while offering applied learning experiences to upper level mathematics students.
Flipping the Classroom: A Multipronged Approach to Retention of Academically Underprepared STEM Majors
Dr. Junryo Watanabe, Asst. Professor - Cell and Microbiology
Oneonta
2017
Type of GrantIITG Tier One
Amount of Award:$9,500.00
This IITG project will implement a “flipped” classroom approach on a cohort group of underrepresented students and test its effectiveness on retention and success of underprepared students in STEM.
Interactive Program Design Website: Supporting Innovations, Technologies and Professional Development
Dr. Nan Travers, Director, Center for Leadership in Credentialing Learning
Empire State College
2017
Type of GrantIITG Tier One
Amount of Award:$10,000.00
- Design Thinking
This project will create an interactive academic program design website to build SUNY-wide strategic direction in programmatic offerings, while bolstering campus constituents’ knowledge, skills and confidence in design, implementation, and sustainability of new initiatives to meet higher educational demands of the 21st century.
This project planned an interactive web-based portal to house innovation projects across SUNY. As a result, existing projects that impact access will be more accessible to others for expanding capabilities, dissemination and scaling. We have also been accepted as a Tier 3 IITG project for 2018-19 to implement the plans for an interactive portal and open resource repository on innovative projects across SUNY: Academic Sharing Community: A SUNY Catalog of Educational Projects and Innovative Initiatives (ASC SUNY). This should provide us with the ability to take the plans into a scalable project. Ongoing support of the project still needs to be determined.
Lighting the SPARC of Scientific Collaboration: A Proposal to Add Two SUNY Campuses to a Regional Conservation Biology Network
Dr. Elizabeth Bastiaans
Oneonta
2017
Type of GrantIITG Tier One
Amount of Award:$10,000.00
- Big Data; Student Publishing
This IITG Tier 1 project seeks to add two teaching-focused SUNY campuses to a region-wide network of conservation biologists studying the effects of global change on forest amphibians.
Minecraft MOOC for Educators (MIME)
Ms. Allyson Kaczmarek, Program Developer
University at Buffalo
2017
Type of GrantIITG Tier One
Amount of Award:$10,000.00
- Games (Hardware/Software); Immersive Environment (Virtual Reality)
Minecraft MOOC for educators is a pedagogy and a specialization of courses for flipping, engaging, and learning within a virtual environment of Minecraft. It could change the way educators and students at all levels engage in learning.