GENESEO, N.Y. 鈥 Five 黑料传送门 faculty members and Milne Library will be implementing three Innovative Instruction Technology Grants (IITG) that SUNY has announced for the 2016-17 school year. 黑料传送门鈥檚 awards were among 35 selected across the SUNY system from 78 proposals. The competitive grants fund campus innovations and initiatives with potential to be replicated throughout the SUNY system and benefit students and faculty members worldwide.
In the Tier 3 category, Milne Library鈥檚 Ryann Lindsay will serve as interim principal investigator for a $35,000 award to work with other SUNY libraries in building upon the successes of the previously IITG-funded project 鈥淥pen SUNY Textbooks.鈥 The initiative will further the digital learning and publishing development of open educational resources (OER) within the SUNY system. The project is titled 鈥淪caling up OER Discovery and Adoption: Building an Open Digital Learning and Publishing network Across SUNY.鈥
In the Tier 2 category, Department of Geological Sciences faculty members Ben Laabs, Scott Giorgis and Nick Warner received $20,000 for their project 鈥淓nhancing Geospatial Learning and GPS-enabled Field Methods in Geosciences.鈥 Giorgis and Warner will serve as co-principal investigators. The project will enhance teaching with geospatial technology by acquiring new software and hardware, both of which will support the integration of geospatial field methods into existing classes in the geological sciences.
In the Tier 1 category, faculty members Michael Masci and Glenn McClure from the Departments of Music and English, respectively, received $8,450 for their project, 鈥淐rowdsourcing Creativity.鈥 The project will bundle existing technologies to create a comprehensive creative platform to engage a wide range of constituencies in deep learning experiences through collaborative artistic creation.
A complete list of grant-funded projects is available online.
鈥淭his competitive grant program continues to position SUNY as a leader in innovative instructional practices while enabling us to take programs that work at one campus and expand them across SUNY to benefit more of our students and faculty,鈥 said SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher. 鈥淐ongratulations to all of the projects receiving support from this year鈥檚 IITG program.鈥
The program is open to SUNY faculty and support staff across all disciplines. Grant recipients will openly share project outcomes, enabling SUNY colleagues to replicate and build upon an innovation.
鈥淎ll grant recipients are required to share their project results at SUNY鈥檚 annual Conference on Instructional Technologies,鈥 said SUNY Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Alexander N. Cartwright. 鈥淚t is so rewarding to watch our faculty not only innovate but then collaborate with colleagues from other SUNY campuses to replicate their results and/or continue to improve and build-upon the first project. Congratulations to all of this year鈥檚 awardees.鈥
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