Accelerating

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• Accelerating
• Course Development
• Through Collaboration

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Accelerating Course Development Through
Collaboration

• Phil Moss
• Director of Educational Partnerships Planning
• MERLOT
• Lisa Pirinelli-Dubuc
• Teaching, Learning, and Technology Program
• State University of New York
• Debra Runshe
• Assistant Director
• Center for Instruction, Research, and Technology
• Indiana State University

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Engaging and Emerging Faculty Development
Processes
MERLOT- System Wide Partner
Lisa Pirinelli-DubucSUNY Teaching, Learning, and
Technology Program
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• 64 Campuses (serve over 427,000 students)
• University Centers (Doctoral Degree Granting)
• University Colleges
• Technology Colleges
• Community Colleges

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• over 100 online degree and certificate programs
• 4,300 online college courses offered annually
• 100,000 student enrollments from around the globe
• 2,000 world-class SUNY faculty

www.sln.suny.edu
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System Wide Faculty Development Initiatives and
MERLOT

• SLN New Faculty Development Training Program
• SUNY Teaching, Learning and Technology
  Cooperative
• Teacher Preparation Learning Commons -
  Undergraduate teacher prep programs (NCCC Teacher
  Academy)
• National Center for Academic Transformation/SUNY
  Course Redesign Initiative

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SLN Faculty Development
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SLN Faculty Development
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SLN Course Design Process
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ANGEL LMS

• SUNY Preferred LMS Platform(30/64 campuses use
  ANGEL supported by SLN)

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TLT Cooperative

• MERLOT workshops for faculty and faculty
  developers
• Online courses for faculty
• 4 weeks
• MERLOT for faculty developers
• Teaching with MERLOT for beginners
• MERLOT for Searching, Sharing, and Scholarship
• Webinar Series(1 hour sessions)
• What on earth is a learning object and
  introduction to MERLOT?
• Personal Collections WebinarStop Searching and
  Start Sharing
• Personalizing MERLOT
• Getting Involved- MERLOT and the Scholarship of
  Teaching
• Annual CIT conference Workshop
• Is your glass ½ full? Enhance your teaching with
  MERLOT
• MERLOT Online Support SUNY TLT
  Websitetlt.suny.edu

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SUNY TLT Resources
http//tlt.suny.edu/MERLOTForFacultyDevelopers.sht
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Teaching Commons

• Create a MERLOT institutional teaching commons
  for teacher prep programs
• NCCC Teacher Academy- pilot campus

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SUNY Course Redesign Initiative
The goal is to achieve improvements in learning
outcomes as well as reductions in instructional
costs by redesigning large-enrollment,
multi-section courses using technology-supported
active learning strategies.

• Grants Awarded (40,000/three-year)
• Buffalo State, Economics
• Canton, Basic Communication
• Canton, Biology
• Erie, Developmental English
• Fredonia, Spanish 101
• Niagara, Statistics
• Old Westbury, College Algebra
• Oswego, College Algebra
• Potsdam, History
• Stony Brook, Physics

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Accelerating Course Development Through
Collaboration
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Accelerating Course Development Through
Collaboration
MERLOT- Institutional Partner
Debra Dunlap Runshe, Assistant DirectorCenter
for Instruction, Research, Technology
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Accelerating Course Development Through
Collaboration

• MERLOT and Indiana State University
• Laptop Campus
• Course Redesign
• Online Learning
• Blackboard LMS
• New Faculty

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Accelerating Course Development Through
Collaboration
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Accelerating Course Development Through
Collaboration

• MERLOT Institutional Initiatives
• In consultation with MERLOT partners, affiliates,
  
• and interested institutions, MERLOT has
  identified
• the major academic technology initiatives that
  are
• strategic priorities for higher education.

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Accelerating Course Development Through
Collaboration

• MERLOT Institutional Initiatives
• Support institutions effective and efficient
  development of quality plans, implementations,
  and assessments through easy discovery of
  exemplary practices and reference resources

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Accelerating Course Development Through
Collaboration

• MERLOT Institutional Initiatives
• Showcase authentic institutional case studies for
  using MERLOT in advancing an initiative.
• Collect tools processes that MERLOT partners
  can adopt or adapt.
• Provide evidence that the MERLOT services are
  helping deliver expected outcomes and value.

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Accelerating Course Development Through
Collaboration
Institutional Initiatives
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Accelerating Course Development Through
Collaboration

• MERLOT Institutional Initiatives
• Academic Content Textbook Affordability
• Accessibility
• Accreditation 
• Adjunct Faculty - Support
• College Readiness
• Content Repositories
• Course Redesign
• Degree Completion/Accelerated Learning
• Faculty Development
• Hybrid Online Course Development
• ICT Literacy 
• Institutional Research on Technology Use 

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Accelerating Course Development Through
Collaboration

• MERLOT Institutional Initiatives
• Interdisciplinary Projects
• K-20 Initiatives 
• Learning Management Systems - Planning
  Implementation
• Mobile Computing
• Online Degree Program Development Scholarship of
  Teaching Learning
• Tenure, Promotion, and Technology
• Virtual Learning Environments
• Web 2.0 Implementations
• Workforce Development
• Other Innovations/Emerging Technologies

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Accelerating Course Development Through
Collaboration

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