GENESEO, N.Y. – Five SUNY Geneseo faculty members and Milne Library will be implementing three Innovative Instruction Technology Grants (IITG) that SUNY has announced for the 2016-17 school year. Geneseo’s 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’s 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 “Open SUNY Textbooks.” The initiative will further the digital learning and publishing development of open educational resources (OER) within the SUNY system. The project is titled “Scaling up OER Discovery and Adoption: Building an Open Digital Learning and Publishing network Across SUNY.”
In the Tier 2 category, Department of Geological Sciences faculty members Ben Laabs, Scott Giorgis and Nick Warner received $20,000 for their project “Enhancing Geospatial Learning and GPS-enabled Field Methods in Geosciences.” 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, “Crowdsourcing Creativity.” 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.
“This 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,” said SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher. “Congratulations to all of the projects receiving support from this year’s IITG program.”
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.
“All grant recipients are required to share their project results at SUNY’s annual Conference on Instructional Technologies,” said SUNY Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Alexander N. Cartwright. “It 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’s awardees.”
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