Past Projects (OLD)

Adapting an exiting MOOC to an on-demand format to bolster workforce development in Home Health Care Aides, including incorporation of open textbook (OER) material.

MOOC posted on Coursera.org. Transitioning to Coursera on-demand portal.

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The project aims to develop a workshop with experts of Asian art techniques along with a website dedicated for it. During the grant period of 2016-2017, a website with video links, podcasts, online lectures, or database of practitioners is developed at Fashion Institute of Technology and offered for visitors at Stony Brook University's Charles B. Wang Center and SUNY Old Westbury's Amelie A. Wallace Gallery using hand-held devices or interactive monitors.

A website called “Bamboo Canvas” was successfully developed at Fashion Institute of Technology, and it was offered to many students using hand-held devices or interactive monitors. The website increased diversity and access to a limited source of materials, demonstrating diverse techniques of art and craft in East Asia. The website also increased connectivity among SUNY campuses and local art museums through use at conferences and exhibitions.

Students who participated in this project benefited from applied learning by utilizing their skills acquired in the program of Art History and Museum Professions at FIT and by pursuing career success in galleries. Some of them got full-time jobs as a result of their experience with this project. Overall, Bamboo Canvas has led to improved student learning ability and performance.

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Using Targeted OERs to Develop Core Academic Skills in the Disciplines is a project that will serve the goals of both Open SUNY and SUNY Excels, specifically the creation of open-source shareable learning resources, the development of modularized content, and the design of innovative resources aimed at improving completion rates of at-risk, nontraditional, and first-generation learners.

For students who attend Empire State College (ESC), there is often a significant gap between prior formal educational experiences and their enrollment at ESC. The OERs in this project bridge gaps between former educational preparation and common expectations for college-level learning. In addition, the OERs provide supplemental instruction for students who need a refreshers in common skill areas. Currently, our educational technologists are attempting to share the OERs via Open SUNY. In addition, a video is in production that will mirror some aspects of the CIT conference presentation that outlines the development process.

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Students often struggle with the 3D visualization skills necessary to interpret a 3D landscape from a 2D, flat topographic map. The augmented reality sandbox (ARS) bridges the gap between 2D and 3D visualization by projecting a digital topographic map directly onto a landscape created in a sandbox. As that sandbox landscape is altered, the topographic map dynamically adjusts in real time to match the landscape, giving students the opportunity to interactively discover how to read topographic maps.

Crowdsourcing Creativity will bundle existing technologies to create a comprehensive creative platform that will engage a wide range of constituencies in deep learning experiences through collaborative artistic creation. This platform will place SUNY in the forefront of crowdsourced artistic creation that both utilizes and promotes scholarship across the disciplines.

This project addresses a significant gap in current Open Educational Resources (OER) pertaining to Native American Culture, History, and Government by placing an existing textbook on the Creative Commons, developing open-access, media-rich instructional modules linked to the textbook, and creating a new online course.

This project will create a set of documents and videos describing methods to create numeric questions in Blackboard that contain multiple dependent variables. The use of multiple dependent variables allow for complex, multi-step questions to be provided to students.

This project developed materials that other educators can use to create assessment tools in common on-line course management systems. This can provide cost savings to students by not requiring the student to purchase access to publisher provided content or other third party systems. The ability to create mathematical assessment tools will aid on-line instruction in all areas of STEM education, whether for STEM majors or within a general education context.

Oswego CELT "Tea for Teaching" Podcast Report
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Problem-based learning is an effective, student-centered approach in which students learn higher-order thinking skills and integrative strategies by solving real-world challenges.This pilot project, funded by SUNY IITG in 2015, is in the process of developing best-practice models and pedagogically sound materials for survey and topic-based music courses that integrates general education content while encouraging students to think creatively and develop flexible solutions to large-scale issues and problems – skills essential for success in the 21st century

This project will survey the SUNY environment to create a network of those involved in scholarly communication. The goal is to create closer alignment and deeper partnerships for librarians and faculty in pursuing scholarly research, grants and publication.

The study provides insight into the way in which cultural diversity affects instructional practices of college instructors, and how to incorporate diversity into instructional strategies to help diverse students succeed. This study opens the door for additional research on instructors’ perspectives and understandings of cultural diversity to help them facilitate cultural response pedagogy to support diverse learners in online learning environments. At a broader level, the study provides an opportunity for instructors who teach online courses to design and implement collaborative learning activities to help diverse students succeed in online learning environments.

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The major goal of this project is to build a diverse community with computer games as the platform for student engagement, creativity, learning and fun. We expect the participants and members of this gaming community to solve real and relevant social and community problems using games as the means.

SUNY Poly is proposing to utilize an Innovative Instruction Technology Grant (ITTG) to design an evidence-based, online pharmacology course for graduate nurse educator students, using virtual presence software. This course will utilize authentic faculty developed scenarios to apply the principles of pharmacology to patient care.

SUNY campuses teach microprocessor courses differently. This project aims to explore and develop accessible microprocessor simulation, co-simulation learning models that can be potentially adopted by multiple SUNY campuses.

The development of web based GIS course modules for science and social science courses will facilitate the incorporation of GIS, GPS and Remote Sensing technology and techniques into non-GIS courses; ideally 100 or 200 level courses. The goal of these modules will be to introduce students to GIS technology and the benefits of the technology to their discipline.

This project uses innovative approach in developing an interactive virtual learning community offering students necessary tools and resources to be successful in online courses and accommodating at risk, non-traditional and adult learners.

The proposed project will expand our current efforts to capitalize on SUNY faculty experience to develop OERs in STEM areas, based on the need to increase access to STEM research techniques for students learning at a distance or with other barriers to access, and to introduce STEM topics to engage and on ramp non-traditional and adult learners into STEM programs.

This project continues to expand our current efforts to capitalize on SUNY faculty experience to develop OERs in STEM areas, and to introduce STEM topics to engage and “on ramp” non-traditional and adult learners into STEM programs. As such we created OER objects that were designed to increase access and portability to scientific techniques, while supporting an instructional model that allows for further refinement, development, growth and use across SUNY and beyond. By creating materials that are free to use and remix, we have made course development and student engagement more affordable.

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This project will survey the SUNY environment to create a network of those involved in scholarly communication. The goal is to create closer alignment and deeper partnerships for librarians and faculty in pursuing scholarly research, grants and publication.

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Through 3D medical illustration and open-access instructional design, we can enhance the educational value and accessibility of our pedagogical approach to a wider community of learners.

The focus of this study will be the analysis of two classes identical in content but differing by mode of delivery: a traditional face to face course and a MOOC.

Rockland Community College (RCC) offers a high school program that allows students to earn college credits while in their own high school through dual enrollment. RCC faculty help to build the curriculum, assess instructor credentials, and approve textbook selections. Currently, seven high schools in Rockland County participate in the program with their student paying minimally for College courses.

This project will build and expand upon current efforts to take available resources to the next level both in terms of leveraging existing best practices and looking beyond to develop a MOOC model for workforce development in a high demand specialization area such as energy.

This project seeks to create a formal research-based pedagogy to educate faculty in best practices in creating and using videos for various instructional purposes.

Our project supports SUNY Excels by providing a rubric and professional development plan that will improve the quality of videos produced for instruction. We are confident that our project will improve instructors’ ability to produce higher quality videos, which will in turn improve the quality of education in the SUNY system.

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We propose the development of a program-based learning environment prototype that provides a clean, clear, holistic approach to earning a degree in an ecosystem in which the courses or learning modules are just one part and well integrated within a more robust space.

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This project will expand the 2014 tier I SUNY IITG entitled Creating Mobile Makerspaces to Support Experiential Learning awarded to Suffolk County Community Colleges Eastern campus library. The Tier II project will extend the Tier I successes to Suffolks other two campuses to provide active learning opportunities through the use of mobile makerspaces that enhance student learning and further student engagement.

Both the 3D printer and the One Button Studio support the SUNY Excel of Completion. The 3D printer has been used by students in Anatomy & Physiology classes to print "human skeletons" to aid in the study of the various bones and bone structure of the human body. Additionally, cell phone microscope clips were made for the biology classes to provide a mobile microscope for studying. The One Button Studio was utilized by students in Communications and Theater classes to practice speeches and monologues. By providing these instructional technologies to our students, we are supporting differentiated learning styles and providing them with the support to finish their certificate or degree.

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Through 3D medical illustration and open-access instructional design, we can enhance the educational value and accessibility of our pedagogical approach to a wider community of learners.

This musculoskeletal module will provide a resource that our veterinary students and the SUNY community, especially relevant to the colleges offering veterinary technician programs, will be able to access remote from the veterinary college. It will be accessible to the veterinary students throughout their four years of study as they explore more intricate levels of understanding of the musculoskeletal system.

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Students with disabilities face many challenges that may hinder their ability to receive an equitable opportunity in the classroom. This project is designed to directly address these issues by funding a team of students with disabilities to trial, assess, and collaborate with staff and faculty to explore individual and classroom usefulness of various procured assistive technologies (AT), and to create learning modules that can be shared openly across campus and SUNY system-wide.

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Herbaria, collections of preserved plants, are valuable sources of data essential to studies in the biological sciences. The primary goal of this project is to increase access to herbarium collections at SUNY institutions, as well as to develop and disseminate a new pedagogy for enhancing botanical education using digitized specimens.

The SUNY Open Education Research Lab’s core mission is to both actively engage and support empirical research of of SUNY’s Open Education efforts. We will do this by engaging in our own research of Open SUNY projects and, when appropriate, providing consultation and research to other Open SUNY educational efforts.

There will be three major areas of exploration within this project: 1. Create a faculty course supports team and community of practice for OER adoption and development. 2. Create and develop a digital publishing and learning platform to curate and support this OER content which is openly licensed and may be reused, remixed, and adopted into future courses. 3. Develop a sustainable service and business model for OER content creation, curation, and hosting through Open SUNY Textbooks.

Using Flatworld, a competency-based learning platform, faculty teams will develop CBE PLA for: a) SUNY Transfer Path areas of Business, Computer Science, and Criminal Justice/Criminology; b) developmental skills in basic communications and mathematics to align with SUNY General Education learning outcomes; and c) workplace learning acquired through the Center for Disability Services in Human Services/ Human Services Management.

Faculty teams were charged with creating a minimum of one CBE PLA; thus far, teams are on track to create more than one. Teams were charged with three areas: SUNY Transfer Path areas of Business, Computer Science, and Criminal Justice/Criminology (top PLA areas); developmental skills in the areas of basic communications (reading and writing) and mathematics (aligns with SUNY General Education learning outcomes); workplace learning acquired through employment in the area of Human Services/Human Services Management. This project builds upon previous work with PLA and e-portfolios, which has shown success for students to achieve their PLA credits.

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Veterinary clinical training follows an apprenticeship model in which trainees observe experienced clinicians treating cases presenting to teaching hospitals. High fidelity patient simulators enable an approach based on deliberate practice, in which relevant clinical scenarios designed to reinforce specific learning objectives are presented to trainees, who apply their knowledge in real time.

The final product of this project is an open source simulator for veterinary training that can be built at low cost, extending access to this new teaching modality to more resource constrained environments. Simulation teaching is highly engaging and we're using it for continuing education events at Cornell to help introduce alumni to this exciting new teaching methodology. We believe that this will strengthen our relationship with our alumni and encourage them to be more involved with the teaching program.

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This project proposes to create, with SUNY Upstate, online open educational resources (OERs) as a source for a cascade of educational offerings to serve diverse learners in interdisciplinary fields with a test-bed focus on biomedical data science.

Our project provides a series of three MOOC-like courses, one being offered by Coursera, that learners can take to complete a certificate and receive an award of completion in Biomedical Data Analysis at an affordable cost. The access to the Big Data, Genes, and Medicine course in particular has expanded our educational reach to an amazing worldwide audience of currently 4,078 learners of varied backgrounds and socio-economic status.

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The vision of Crowdlearning is that of a self-sustaining collaborative learning environment, where the participants - students of a given subject - intermittently take on the roles of (1) the creators of subject-focused problems (problem statements/formulations with answer alternatives, hints, correct answers with explanations, etc.), (2) problem quality evaluators, and (3) problem solvers, all on an anonymized gamified online platform.

As a 2015 IITG recipient, our multi-campus Open Door to Open SUNY (ODOS) research team is seeking funding to build upon our preliminary research in an effort to support the Open SUNY Affordable Learning Solutions MOOC operations team while further positioning SUNY as a thought leader in the MOOC research arena.

This project is intended to develop a proof-of-concept for, and pilot, a digital assignment workflow involving music notation.

Notate allows students and potential students to do music fundamentals exercises that are either instructor-assessed or self-assessed. The opportunity self-assessment provides is substantial: students can remediate necessary knowledge in music scholarship, work alone to prepare themselves for early entry into advanced courses, or supplement their current learning opportunities with extra knowledge.

Notate has a goal of increasing civic engagement by offering itself as a free tool to educators not just within the SUNY system, but also at other schools, including high schools, in New York and around the country. This leads to better-prepared students entering college, and better-educated students in high school settings.

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Visually, virtual lab has become more and more realistic nowadays; however, many crucial lab components such as tactile skills, decision-making for preparation and execution of the lab are still missing. Also, to familiarize students with the sequential steps in a protocol, current virtual labs only require user to click through the steps without any active decision made by the users. Hence, using the concept of "gamification", our proposed solution addresses these two issues by adding a hardware component that can interact with a software to provide feedback and suggestion to users.

The “Lab-in-a-Cube” hardware tool works to improve students’ hands-on laboratory skills. It can be used in the classroom to provide feedback to students’ individual performance. It is even useful in large classroom settings, and it can be used as an online learning tool at a much cheaper price than typical expensive lab tools and equipment.

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This collaborative project between faculty at the University at Albany and Empire State College will scale and refine the existing Metaliteracy Badging System for Open SUNY, and produce a collaborative, customized badge for teacher education programs.

This project supports non-traditional students who have come into graduate teaching programs as a second career by increasing their awareness of 21st century metaliteracy skills, particularly digital citizenship.

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The proposed project constitutes a major augmentation of the existing geospatial technology in the Department of Geological Sciences that was recently implemented with tech fee support from CIT, and will afford the integration of a new set of learning objectives into the geoscience degree programs.

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Expanding access to career development learning for students, alumni, and adult learners across New York state, the United States, and globally, the project proposes to finalize Career Brand Management specialization and permanently deploy it on Coursera; this four-course, OPEN SUNY project was piloted in 2016 and has so far enrolled 44,500 learners from 168 countries.

The project has now been successfully deployed as a specialization on Coursera. It has considerably increased access to advanced career self-management learning, as demonstrated by many dozens of thousands enrolled learners, statewide, nationally and globally. The project significantly contributes to non-credit, continuing education of working professionals, and supports it by introducing a verifiable credential (Coursera Certificate). Also, it has resulted in developing new career training methodologies (individual skills management), resources (The Skills Manager Pro), and partnerships (as reported at Coursera Partners conference, the project is already used by businesses and organizations, including a United Nations Agency in NYC).

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The aim of this project is to deliver an online educational resource in movement analysis to pre-service and in-service teachers in physical education and related fields.

Digital scholarship has many layers: it's about tools to help students explore and convey knowledge in new ways, space to explore and create with these tools, and collaboration between departments, disciplines, programs, and SUNY colleges.

This MOOC will focus on advancing learning and optimizing career opportunities by offering accessible, curated information and application exercises that improve participants’ confidence, knowledge, and skills and encourage participants to construct a schema upon which to continue lifelong exploration regarding the effective implementation of emerging technology tools.

This MOOC brings digital literacy and lifelong learning skills to faculty, staff, students, and anyone in the world interested in learning more about the 4Cs of 21st century learners, including communication, collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking. The material in the MOOC, and the complementary crowdsourced EmTechWIKI, are available free of charge and open to everyone. SUNY affiliated participants earn a Coursera Certificate of Completion at no cost, and everyone may earn a Mastery Badge, while others pay a small fee if they want a Coursera certificate. This project supports progress towards a degree by helping participants master technical skills such as video, blogs, and infographic creation to be able to effectively apply the 21st century skills described above. It also helps them learn how to be a savvy consumer of information on the web. The project helps build career skills that employers are looking for in today’s job market. Some of these skills are critical thinking/problem solving, oral/written communication, teamwork/collaboration, and information technology application.

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The Campus Life Model for Reducing Student Isolation is an innovative, cross campus retention effort to increase the success and retention rate of online students by creating community and connectedness in a virtual environment.

This pilot leverages experts from WNY high schools, and three college sectors to create short, self-paced OER learning modules that address skill sets for all students transitioning from high school to college level learning; outcomes will provide early diagnostic tools to support learners throughout their college careers.

The Digital Studio Lab is a transdisciplinary pedagogical project that reimagines the traditional teaching methods of seminar (lecture), lab (technical design), and studio (artistic practice) to create both a method and a space of digital collaboration, community outreach, and interdisciplinary game and media building across the humanities and engineering programs.

Do you want to engage your students with hands-on projects; provide a global learning experience on your home campus; or generate a deeper understanding of the craft and culture of other societies, in order to enrich the classroom, as well as contribute to global citizenry?

This project aimed to develop a website dedicated to Asian art techniques. During the grant period of 2016-2017, a website called “Bamboo Canvas” was successfully developed at Fashion Institute of Technology, and it was offered to visitors at Stony Brook University's Charles B. Wang Center and SUNY Old Westbury's Amelie A. Wallace Gallery using hand-held devices or interactive monitors. The website increased diversity and access to a limited source of materials, demonstrating diverse techniques of art and craft in East Asia. It acts as an egalitarian and affordable way of providing a globalized learning environment and creating a curriculum for diversity. The website also increased connectivity among SUNY campuses and local art museums through use at conferences and exhibitions. Students who participated in this project benefitted from applied learning by utilizing their skills acquired in the program of Art History and Museum Professions at FIT and by pursuing career success in galleries. Some of them got a full-time job as a result of their experience with this project. Overall, Bamboo Canvas has led to improved student learning ability and performance.

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"Materials Matter is an interdisciplinary course that brings together lessons in chemistry, art history, classical archaeology, and design using active learning and an innovative visual language presented in an interactive app to teach students the basic concepts of these subjects as well as how they influence each other."

Using technology-enhanced interprofessional experiential learning, health professions students will improve healthcare delivery for refugee and underserved populations by increasing their cultural sensitivity and understanding of health care disparities through engagement with refugee and underserved African American communities and learning to communicate with individuals with limited English proficiency using professional interpreters.

Meeting the Open Educational Resources Challenge: Taking collaboration to scale through applied best practices and other lessons learned in creating a pipeline of trained OER educators.

This proposal, as a first of three phases, provides for the full development of six essential courses in Political Science and International Relations not currently available on most SUNY campuses to be fully able to be implemented simultaneously across SUNY utilizing online and distance learning technology.

Lowering student textbook expenses to engage and retain diverse online learners by providing course redesign supports, financial incentives, and a community of practice for faculty who wish to adopt open educational resources (OERs) in their online curricula.   

Our program allowed for the adoption and remixing of OERs across 8 courses. Through the adoption process, instructors dropped costly textbooks, saving each student an average of $124 per course. This resulted in a preliminary potential savings of $30,320 for the Fall 2018 semester. The project supported course access, affordability, and choice. For example the OERs allow for immediate access to the content, cost savings for the students, and choice for students (they can decide if they want a printed version of OER at low-cost). Student achievement is to be determined, although OERs are supported by research in terms of student learning outcomes.

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The SUNY Immersive Augmented Reality Classroom is an innovative approach to utilizing virtual and augmented reality technology to enhance the pedagogical experience in multiple disciplines and achieve learning objectives taught throughout SUNY.

This project utilizes affordable technology to provide a shared mixed reality classroom to individuals, regardless of major, both on campus and in remote locations. While the core system utilizes mixed reality hardware, our system also allows users to access the virtual space via non-mixed-reality hardware, making it more affordable for a greater number of users. This tool provides learners with enhanced, more engaging ways to learn material. Specifically, it brings more visual and tactile interaction to virtual content, enabling greater engagement to a wider variety of learners. We hope, as a whole, that the technology helps increase retention of those students who had difficulty previously connecting with the subject matter. By exposing students to mixed reality technology as part of their core curriculum, it can inspire both the creation of more advanced content for this platform and/or the further development of the underlying technology.

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An interactive textbook for music technology students as an applied learning environment in which users can turn knobs and handles, hear and see the changes and thus learn by demonstration, experimentation, and intuition.

An online, information literacy competencies diagnostic tool for postsecondary institutions that provides customized, self-remediation suggestions for students and academic advisors.

This is a proof of concept project to build and expand upon previous IITG work by: 1) providing students access to CBE PLA templates within the Sāgence™ system, 2) developing a PLA competency-based course, 3) expanding the CBE PLA options in Sāgence™, and 4) providing additional professional development.

This project developed competency-based prior learning assessment guides in 7 topic areas (bringing the total number up to 14), a generic guide and a competency-based PLA course - all available on-line. These guides will help students successfully document their prior learning and be assessed for college credit. This directly impacts completion because these guides increase the ability for students to earn credit for what they already know, decreasing the number of credits needed to complete a credential. Research shows that students who participate in PLA are 2X more likely to complete an associate degree and 2.5 X more likely to complete a bachelor's degree.

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This project will increase access to and use of biological collections through further development of the SUNY Herbarium Network, the goals of which are to database and image all specimens housed within SUNY herbaria; upload specimen data and images to a web-based open-access platform; and develop, implement, and assess web-based learning modules.

Integrate learning pathway functionality into the Metaliteracy Badging System that will facilitate custom applications of metaliteracy concepts and serve as a model for “scaling up” the system across disciplines and SUNY institutions.

Using Renewable Energy Laboratory (REL) simulator to design manageable hands-on/Applied Learning components in an introductory energy and environment course, to help deepen student learning of renewable energy generation, both challenges and benefits.

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.

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.

TimeStitch is an experimental platform that allows the creation of digital customized narrative based on the content entered. It is primarily used to generate virtual exhibitions and displays and for training students to become curators of digital content.

The Alfred State Micro Credentialing Project employs the NACE competencies for career readiness to promote all aspects of the SUNY Excels performance framework by challenging student employees to participate in activities, online coursework, and projects that demonstrate their ability to grow and impact their academic and professional success.

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 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.

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.

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This global MOOC entitled Empowering Yourself in a Post-Truth World will prepare learners to be reflective, critical consumers and active, well-informed producers and participants in today’s connected yet divisive digital information environment.

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Leveraging a highly anticipated Coursera Blockchain Specialization, UB computer science faculty propose piloting a new process to transform Coursera-issued Verified Certificates into a UB Digital Badge, which for some learners, when coupled to their professional background, may lead to academic credit through a prior learning assessment (PLA) process to further a micro-credentialing or degree program effort.

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The Academic Sharing Community: A SUNY Catalog of Educational Projects and Innovative Initiatives (ASC SUNY) serves as a repository for campus initiatives, while providing guidance for project development and assessment and ways to network and partner across SUNY to help institutions meet demands of the 21st century.

A consortium of SUNY universities and colleges, led by SUNY Cobleskill, and with the support of the SUNY Office of Global Affairs and the COIL Center, seek to produce the infrastructure to assess and credential competencies that students attain in global learning programs.

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Over the life of the project a series of interactive video training tools will be created for students intending to enter a range of medical professions; the tools will focus on improving communication skills (and other soft skills), an essential area where a lack of resources has been identified.

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Development of a "Lab Simulation Builder" to allow instructors to create, without any computer programming requirement, a variety of hands-on lab video games that can be controlled by our custom electronic controller that emulate actual lab tool's appearance and operation to improve students' tactile wet-lab skill and STEM learning experience even outside of the lab.

This educational electronic medical record will be used by a group of interprofessional students to work as a patient care team, effectively simulating modern healthcare workflow and communication, and preparing students to succeed in real-world environments.

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Expanding Campus-Wide Digital Scholarship Collaboration at Maritime: Building Bridges Across Disciplines for a SUNY-Wide Digital Scholarship Initiative is our title and our overarching goal. Our new Digital Scholarship Lab (DSL) will become the center for DS at Maritime and provide for a SUNY-wide model.

The University at Buffalo (UB) College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with campus partners, proposes to explore Open edX as a traditional and post-traditional education delivery platform to students on a global scale.

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Accurately representing common challenges novice teachers face in the urban classroom is a difficult and demanding challenge; the classroom VR environment proposed in this project was developed in collaboration with administrators and teachers from a large urban school district with a large population of minoritized students.

The Open Cyber Arena supports hands-on cybersecurity education and outreach efforts, providing ease of use to instructors and streamlined ease of access to students.

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The proposed project is to develop collaborative content for a Micro-Credential (for academic credit) and a Digital Badge (for non-degree students) consisting of stackable modules on the elements of the Pharmacists’ Patient Care Process (PPCP) for use across pharmacy and health education professional and post-graduate programs.

SUNY Maritime College will explore the use of 360 Degree Videos incorporated with Virtual Reality Technology as an experiential learning platform, allowing them to developing a structured methodology to support the learning process created through the use of the 360 Degree Videos which utilizes the incorporation of a structured assessment process to guide the students towards established learning outcomes.

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Based on our previous IITG project, we are further developing and evaluating a shared virtual and augmented reality learning environment called the “SUNY Immersive Augmented Reality Classroom” to enhance and transform the pedagogical impact in multiple disciplines and better support learning objectives taught throughout SUNY.

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The Alfred State Micro Credentialing Project employs the NACE competencies for career readiness to promote all aspects of the SUNY Excels performance framework by challenging students to participate in activities, online coursework, and projects that demonstrate their ability to grow and positively impact their academic and professional success.

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This project will create a system of courses to teach the five new coordination competencies and address the talent gap that currently exists in the Health Care Coordination field throughout New York State and beyond.

TimeStitch (http://timestitch.geneseo.edu/items/browse) is a database that was developed and populated with the help of the IITG Tier 1 Grant. In this next stage we would like to develop the following: 1) crowdsourcing plugin that will help to digitize objects such as antiques that are in the possession of general public to create a 3-dimensional component that will help students in planning virtual and real exhibitions and offer the TimeStitch package to museums as a tool of making their collections available online.

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By infusing affordable digital notation technologies into Broome CC’s Music Theory classrooms, this pilot project will: (1) promote creativity, intuitive learning, and accessibility for participating students; (2) help them understand complex concepts faster, and train them to hear different chord qualities, intervals, and instrument timbres; and (3) serve as a model for other community college music programs where technology-based pedagogical solutions are often outpaced by local high schools.

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A pilot project in the development of 360-degree educational video, in which the student is immersed in a virtual review of the anatomy of the human body, using an actual cadaver as the demonstration model.

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This is an adaptation of Buffalo State's "Ignite Your Everyday Creativity" MOOC that will serve the people of Myanmar (and potentially the Burmese refugees around the world) to support their efforts to solve vexing problems by engaging their creative thinking skills, even when resources are limited.

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This study explores the health, campus engagement, academic performance, and culture of collegiate varsity eSports athletes, with the goal of understanding this new and unique population of students for recruitment and retention purposes.

This Open Writing in the Disciplines (WID) Project will build a community of practice at Rockland, Monroe, and Clinton Community Colleges with the Excelsior OWL that will create model faculty training, curriculum development, and assessment, all of which will be openly available in collaboration with SUNY OER Services.

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This project will examine CBE as an instructional model to provide workforce development to STEM students, promote inclusion of students with cognitive disabilities in STEM fields, and foster collaborations on CBE projects across SUNY.

The goal of the proposed project is to examine the validity and reliability of a measure to track and assess experiential education activities, which has potential for use by other programs.

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The Taking Laboratory Science Home will develop laboratory activities for use in on-line courses that enable learners to plan, gather, collect, analyze and interpret real-world experimental data.

Modular and Student-Driven Learning of Writing (MASLOW) is an online learning platform, built across Blackboard and Edublog, where international graduate students can practice foundational writing skills for developing discipline-specific communication abilities based on exploratory and gamified activities in the context of their orientation to US higher education and professional growth.

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This proposal develops augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) demonstration models and stackable micro credential in CAD to enhance and encourage student learning in technical drawing and 3D modeling.

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Students in upper level GIS related courses will be trained on using UAS (drone) technology in STEM and Social Science Disciplines with emphasis on GIS data processing to meet the growing demand of UAS savvy GIS workers.

Project Outcome Report

This project recruits faculty across SUNY campuses to develop a freely-available modular curriculum on food sustainability to be applied in multiple disciplines, and distributed using the Digital Commons of SUNY platform.

This project will provide students with the tools to conceptualize and prototype innovative electronic musical instruments through the use of electronic circuit software simulation, printed circuit board design and fabrication, and project enclosure (aesthetic) design.

https://youtu.be/2wcssW4aSU8?t=1433

This project will focus on buttressing the design of learning experiences that best support all learners through the development, implementation, and dissemination of a UDL-based instructional design model.

https://youtu.be/Sh1Q2FgxxeM?t=951

This project will expand our program’s use of interactive simulations from one to two classes, and in the process develop methodologies to train faculty to redesign courses to incorporate them, with the goal to pioneer scaling the use of serious games in college courses and programs.

https://youtu.be/Sh1Q2FgxxeM?t=94

A redistributable OER package supporting a smartphone / tablet student video content (think rough draft YouTube STEM video) project for STEM methods and content courses for preservice teachers with examples, assignments, rubrics and project guidance videos and documents.

https://youtu.be/gW3t3mp-OEM?t=1966

This project will develop gamified learning modules that will prepare students to be online learners with transferable skills, while overcoming their fear of online learning and therefore, positively changing their attitudes about technology and online learning.

This project aims to develop and implement computer-based active learning modules involving digital and analog circuits based on the Analog Discovery platform as a personal, alternate lab accessible at any time or place for students of electrical engineering/engineering technology.

https://youtu.be/I8T9rVNtw7M?t=94

Proposal to create a prototype which could be duplicated throughout the SUNY system, where the Criminal Justice department will partner internally with the Rural Police Academy, the Paralegal and Campus Safety departments and also local law enforcement agencies and the State Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Services to create a collaborative and active learning environment, with corresponding interactive curricula, where both traditional and post-traditional students interact with state-of-the-art technology to practice real world criminal justice procedures and protocols in a safe learning environment while also earning stackable micro-credentials.

https://youtu.be/2wcssW4aSU8?t=2565

Can online, interactive, learning materials and Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) help students more thoroughly gain necessary prerequisite skills without interfering with class time, in equine anatomy and beyond?

https://youtu.be/I8T9rVNtw7M?t=2621

This project is a Coursera course in Motivational Interviewing, an evidence-based counseling method for encouraging behavioral change.

The proposed interdisciplinary plan will develop a low-cost autonomous surface vessel that can be used as a teaching platform for engineering students and will serve as a research platform for Marine Environmental Science students to collect data on water quality

https://youtu.be/I8T9rVNtw7M?t=860

In order to make the record of the past accessible to as many students as possible through online education, we propose developing a series of virtual collections, exercises, and lab-based studies using 3D scanning and digital imagery.

https://youtu.be/gW3t3mp-OEM?t=85

UB will build and pilot a trusted environment to test seamless credentialing through Blockchain technology to prototype how records can be managed across the entire system requiring less, multiple touch, human intervention.

https://youtu.be/ZBN9UJ3ucKQ?t=1988

This project examines development of teacher candidates' observational skills and resulting impacts on their instructional practices as well as results on a performance- and video-based licensure test.

https://youtu.be/FplcZ31RMHg?t=130

Developing economical, innovative, immersive educational experiences where healthcare learners experience vulnerable patient perspectives to improve empathy and patient-centered communication skills.

https://youtu.be/FplcZ31RMHg?t=1791

The proposed project is a pilot that uses virtual reality to create inter-professional Alzheimer’s disease curriculum and training for students in health professions (medicine, nursing, and physicians assistant).

https://youtu.be/gW3t3mp-OEM?t=1330

In this project, we will build / assess CITE (the Collaborative Interactive Tabletop for Education) and develop necessary software for use, as well as publish a construction, purchasing, and best-practices guide for replicating CITE.

https://youtu.be/FplcZ31RMHg?t=2748

This Tier Two IITG proposal focuses on the use of Reclaim Hosting to enable the validation of a replicable and scalable model of open educational practice within the SUNY System.

https://youtu.be/ZBN9UJ3ucKQ?t=957

Micro-credentials developed on the Pharmacists’ Patient Care Process will be implemented, evaluated, and further developed at three SUNY institutions.

https://youtu.be/I8T9rVNtw7M?t=1617

This educational electronic medical record platform will be scaled up for use across SUNY campuses, as a way to promote realistic and practical team-based learning among interprofessional students in asynchronous and remote environments.

https://youtu.be/FplcZ31RMHg?t=925

Our proposal will bring nationally recognized professional development opportunities to current and future faculty in the SUNY system in order to train STEM educators in the effective use of active learning strategies to improve student learning, especially for students underrepresented in STEM fields.

https://youtu.be/Sh1Q2FgxxeM?t=2834

The Open Cyber Arena Virtual Lab initiative supports hands-on cybersecurity education, providing instructors with easy to deploy virtual lab assignments and accompanying videos for students.

https://youtu.be/2wcssW4aSU8?t=141

This data collection and analysis project will enable the CEI Academies to operate under a continuous improvement model, allowing CEI to maximize the impact and effectiveness of this faculty development track.

https://youtu.be/Sh1Q2FgxxeM?t=1893

Expand student success with the development of a virtual open geospatial (mapping) lab and workforce opportunities through remote internships in geospatial information science and technology (GIST) in rural areas across New York State.

https://youtu.be/gW3t3mp-OEM?t=711

The Open Home project is a proof of concept ecosystem built with open-source tools to support program communities and open pedagogy.

https://youtu.be/ZBN9UJ3ucKQ?t=80

A Laboratory-Based Introduction to Digital Scholarly Editing" will create modularized open online educational resources that leverage a classic work of American literature, Henry David Thoreau's "Walden," to introduce learners to digital scholarly editing as an important branch of professional editing and publishing.

https://youtu.be/gW3t3mp-OEM?t=2783

The purpose of this project is to investigate and assess the efficacy of videoconference software tools in the delivery of HyFlex courses to better understand faculty use of these tools and how that impacts student experience. The 55 faculty participants from 20 different SUNY campuses were asked to select one of four video conferencing tools (Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Class, or Engageli), received vendor training on their selected tool, as well as training on how to design and deliver HyFlex courses with support from a dedicated instructional designer.

What is the effect of software tool adoption on the implementation (design & delivery) of a large enrollment course? This project seeks to answer this question by investigating the use of instructional technology tools that help facilitate feedback, assessment, and interaction in large enrollment (>50 students) courses.

For engineering education, using the VR technologies can provide opportunities for students to move away from conventional 2D drawing design scenarios to those VR interactive environments to understand how all of the design elements will come together from the member level to the system level, which can greatly enhance the learning experience in a more detailed 3D way systematically.

The CCAVA project will research existing conventional and assistive technologies (hardware, software, pedagogies) for composing and consuming written and graphic materials; develop improvements and innovations in connecting their use so that creators across visual abilities (conventionally-sighted, visually impaired, blind) can collaborate on composing, critiquing,and sharing scholarly and creative works; and share accessible tools, guides, and additional findings via an Open Library website.

The project will use immersive virtual reality technology to enhance drawing activities in general chemistry courses to improve students' understanding of 3-dimensional chemical structures.

The i-STEAM project is a modular online faculty development training that helps STEM scholars draw on discourse traditions from different cultures to make their courses, assignments, assessments, and classroom teaching more inclusive, innovative, inquiry-based, and invitational (4i). Resources developed by facilitators and participants will be shared with the SUNY community.

This grant proposal seeks to examine the feasibility and acceptability of an online, asynchronous learning content platform that automatically generates education content using AI technology to produce life-like digital avatars of the content creators.

What has that hand laceration damaged? Check out the APP - Anatomic Structures at Risk to evaluate all the potentially injured structures and review their anatomy.

Rockland Community College, the Haverstraw Brick Museum, and North Rockland High School will use the Museum’s archives to tell the history of Rockland County for a new generation through the brick making industry.

This work will create asynchronous content in D2L/Brightspace to promote accessibility in an engaging and approachable way.

SUNY Maritime, SUNY Oneonta, SUNY Nassau Community College, and Universidad Catolica Andres Bello in Venezuela with the support of the SUNY COIL Center, are seeking funding through the SUNY Innovative Instructional Technology Grant - IITG to design and implement a set of COIL-specific standards to inform and guide COIL-related activities for instructors and coordinators with research-based best practices as the COIL appendix to the OSCQR Rubric.

Innovative Instruction Technology Grants funding will provide SUNY Jamestown Community College with the capacity to design and create a dedicated space for writing and testing virtual and augmented reality programming.

This project aims to improve upon active learning modules based on the Analog Discovery device, a portable and personal computer-based test equipment, that simulates laboratory equipment, ultimately enhancing student learning in electrical and computer engineering courses.

Building upon prior learning assessment (PLA) priorities identified in SUNY Empire’s Academic Affairs Action Plan, this project promotes cross-functional institutional collaborations for creating systems, tools, and faculty, staff, and student professional development resources for the early identification of students’ potential PLA credits to increase student cost-savings, retention, and degree completion.