Past Projects (OLD)

The proposed pilot project involves creating videos documenting a cycle of literacy instructional coaching to support NYS literacy specialist preparation and to develop a scalable method for future instructional video creation for SUNY literacy graduate programs, with final resources hosted in the SUNY Open Access Repository.

SUNY teacher education faculty from Buffalo State and Old Westbury implement video-based feedback within reflective teaching cycles to enhance novice educators’ teaching performance and reflective ability, and articulate a replicable process for integrating video analysis into teacher education coursework.

This project will develop SUNY OpenIoTLab aiming towards federating the experimental education resources for wireless intelligent Internet of Things (IoT) available over the SUNY system and opening the resources to SUNY students.

The SPEAR and SHIELD cybersecurity simulation enables teams of remote learners to manage and defend a small-scale, corporate network, which is facing an ongoing cyberattack.

This project creates, beta tests, and assesses a more accessible version of an extant Virtual Reality Learning Environment situated in an immersive mental health clinic in order to encourage students to learn the principles of Trauma Informed Care and to develop empathy for client perspectives on health care service provision.

This IITG proposal seeks to expand access to Global SDG Project Challenges and Digital Badges offered through the UB Experiential Learning Network (ELN) through engaging students and faculty across SUNY along with their global partners.

These stackable, credit-based courses introduce students and athletes to the business of team operations, venue management and related career opportunities in professional sports.

This project aims to make more collaborative, knowledgeable engineers by providing students hands-on data labeling experience with tools that are used in everyday modern AI applications while also solidifying knowledge of basic concepts in natural language processing.

This project creates a modular, enduring overview of digital health technologies, including artificial intelligence, big data, wearables, mobile applications, FDA-approved digital therapeutics, and remote patient monitoring that can be used by a variety of health professions education programs to prepare learners for the future of health care delivery.

The SUNY HistoryLab fosters a community of practice for faculty and students interested in historical inquiry by creating a networked digital and scholarly infrastructure across the SUNY system—and beyond it to institutions and citizens of New York State.

This proposal will help SUNY Brockport faculty explore and implement a wide range of innovative assessment strategies that fall under the umbrella of ungrading, which fosters student learning and development and promotes equity in instruction and grading.

A professional development initiative to support teacher education faculty's ability to incorporate an AI-supplemented video-analysis and reflection cycle process in their field-based courses with the goal of improving teacher candidates' reflective ability and teaching performance; the development of an OER course enhancement module will facilitate replication at SUNY-wide scale.

This effort will establish a pilot framework and build a community to develop and support open-source applications for Vertically Integrated Projects Programs within SUNY, across New York State, and beyond.

To foster success and equity among incoming community college students, we're enhancing transferable skills through innovative methods like comprehensive survey research, OER learning modules, and AI-driven data analysis, promoting inclusivity in line with SUNY Chancellor's priorities.

This project will explore an innovative pedagogical solution for providing online engineering students with online lab experiences using on-campus programmable equipment.

Restorative Record is a digital solution that aims to reduce the negative impact of criminal background checks on admissions, job training, and employment; the tool aims to help the SUNY system transform its admissions and hiring processes by enabling justice-impacted job candidates to create non-traditional candidate profiles that highlight their core competencies, rehabilitative efforts, and micro-credentials, increasing access to educational offerings statewide.

Integrating AI into Geospatial Information Science and Technology (GIST) curriculums to enhance teaching on climate change, sustainability and human rights issues.

A cross-disciplinary learning community aiming to equip community college faculty and staff with high degree of student-facing responsibilities with AI literacy, AI use skill competencies, and the ability to train others in new technological tools in ethical, responsible, and empowering ways.

The AI-Assisted Learning: Bridging Disciplines, Promoting Equity, and Pioneering Pedagogical Innovations initiative aims to leverage AI in various disciplines to improve learning outcomes, enhance educational equity, support individual learning paces, and explore new pedagogical approaches, bridging academic fields from Math to Business to Humanities.

This project leverages the $200 million investment in AI by U Albany to create a multi-institutional professional learning community to help educators across various sectors gain new knowledge, skills and abilities around artificial intelligence in design, teaching, learning, and assessment; providing a foundation for new models of educator learning in the age of AI, positioning SUNY to attract major external funding for a robust state-wide AI research and education network.

By offering opportunities for pedagogy training and collaboration, Teaching with AI: A Cross-Campus Community of Practice will support faculty who want to incorporate AI into their syllabi and assignments, with the goal of sharing research-based course materials across SUNY and extending training via SUNY CPD.

This project pioneers a methodological framework to systematically integrate AI within course curricula and assess the impact of such AI-integration on AI literacies of students and faculty, student performance on associated assessments, and the learning and teaching experiences of student-faculty partners as they engage in pedagogical partnerships to refine and assess the AI-integration, in diverse course contexts and disciplines.

Development of a mobile device application that features AI-driven conversation support to promote culturally competent communication between healthcare providers and Spanish-speaking patients with Limited English Proficiency (LEP), offering new solutions to pervasive communication challenges across the health professions and innovative pedagogical approaches to language learning in specific professional domains.

Spanning four SUNY campuses, this project will revolutionize education by developing AI-powered toolsets in Computer Vision (CV) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), applying these tools to enhance teaching across multiple disciplines, and creating Open Educational Resources (OER) to share these advancements, thereby fostering an interactive and personalized learning environment.

This yearlong faculty development program is designed to help 50 STEM faculty across SUNY make their courses/teaching more inclusive by using AI tools and gamification, making course content more diverse, classroom discourse more invitational, activities/assignments more collaborative, and assessment more equitable for diverse talents and applications of science.

Leveraging Open Educational Resources, our project seeks to transform composition education, significantly reducing costs and fostering a dynamic, inclusive learning environment, all while providing a blueprint for faculty to enrich curriculum and pedagogy, encapsulated in a strategic, evidence-based framework for educational excellence.

Cultivating inclusivity and diversity, 'Expanding Horizons' develops a comprehensive Open Educational Resource (OER) textbook, incorporating non-Western philosophies, philosophy of race, indigenous philosophies, philosophy of disability, environmental ethics, and feminist philosophy to enhance student success and promote economic equality within the State University of New York (SUNY) system.

The purpose of this project is to broaden educational opportunities for healthcare-related professional students across SUNY through an open-access registry of experiential learning activities in healthcare simulation and interprofessional education.

Adapting OER Resources for teaching upper division Construction Management and Civil Engineering Technology courses, with specific emphasis on construction project administration and cost estimating.

Critical Perspectives on Communication works to dislodge traditional modes of communication theory courses by offering a range of critical, cultural, and embodied perspectives that speak to the future of Communication Studies as a field committed to actively grappling with and transforming regimes of disciplinary knowledge into possibility and potentiality.

This proposal intends to develop a series of authentic patient interviews featuring real, underserved patients from various underrepresented groups (urban, rural, and refugee), paired with a series of virtual simulation (VS) scenarios, to provide health professions students an opportunity to apply their understanding of SDH in a safe, immersive environment.

The Business Management Course Development Grant will produce a series of openly licensed management case studies from the lens of fashion and business management for upper-division and lower-division management courses focusing on current business practices.

"Remote Connections: Artificial Intelligence in the North Country" is a discussion and workshop series at SUNY Potsdam that will cultivate a digitally literate and AI-informed community in Potsdam, weaving together digital literacies and current events for our local community of citizens eager to share ideas, learn, and discuss pressing issues.

This pilot project aims to create an adaptable, scalable open-source infrastructure and working models for project-based experiential learning and to support future major grant applications for student involved research projects in the Humanities and AI.

We will enhance a previously created virtual bioinformatics lab to create an OER adaptable for any undergraduate biology courses, fostering accessibility and enriching student learning

"Innovations in Learning: A SUNY Focused Teaching Journal” is a dynamic platform unifying State University of New York (SUNY) educators, providing a central hub for the exchange of innovative teaching practices, fostering a culture of collaboration, and enriching the teaching and learning experiences across the diverse SUNY system.

The Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Gamification project explores how the use of AI in gamification educational technology tools creates positive learning opportunities for undergraduate and graduate education majors by exploring how AI’s role in gamified tools develops traditional and digital literacy skills, promotes engagement, and supports both instructors and students with designing instructional materials using gamification elements.

This project transforms our co-edited sustainability education anthology (Palgrave, 2024) into an Open Access book linked with an interactive learning hub that empowers educators affiliated with the Mid-Hudson Teacher Center and beyond to make their sustainability education projects visible and shareable—adapting book case studies into actionable student learning projects.

In today’s digital age, information is predominantly disseminated through online platforms; it is critical that we diversify pedagogy to equip students and faculty with the necessary digital literacy skills to comprehend digital content, enhance critical thinking,and increase information literacy and adaptability for the rapidly changing nature of digital formats.