open suny update university at buffalo - march 21, 2013 associate provost carey hatch
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SUNY’s Online Environment • SUNY is a nationally recognized leader in online
learning through the SUNY Learning Network (SLN) and Empire State College
– 35 campuses opt into SLN to support their online efforts
• The SLN Online Course Finder is available to all campuses to list their online courses
• Regional Campus Consortia are forming to promote collaborative degree programs
SUNY’s Online Environment • From a system perspective, online degree
program growth is modest:
• 95 Associate degree programs
• 41 Bachelor’s degree programs (28 at Empire State)
• 20 Master’s degree programs
• Data suggests online graduates are electing to attend private institutions to continue studies
Open SUNY• Provides, encourages and leverages:
– New online courses;– New targeted degree programs;– Improved avenues for degree completion; – Open access to SUNY created instructional content;
and– Comprehensive student and faculty support
services. – Knowledge and expertise of SUNY faculty and campuses
already invested in online learning
– Mechanisms to enable institutions to strategically enter the online environment
Open SUNY - Policy Implications• Financial Aid
– The Office of the Provost, in concert with SUNY’s Student Financial Aid team, will coordinate the creation of a financial aid consortium of all 64 campuses
– Allows a student to take up to 50% of their course work from any institution within the Consortia to receive full financial aid from their home campus
– Course cross listing options
– IT systems are being transformed to support seamless, cross campus, student learning SUNY-wide.
Open SUNY - Policy Implications
• The Office of the SUNY Provost will collaborate with campuses to identify/offer high needs online degree programs
– These programs will not necessarily require a host campus to develop all the necessary courses to confer a degree
– University-wide consortia agreements will facilitate financial aid and articulation agreements with the student’s home campus
Open SUNY - Policy Implications
• Open Education Resource Development
– SUNY is encouraging faculty and campuses to openly license instructional content produced for educational purposes
– IITG Funded e-Textbook Pilot
– SUNY Learning Commons
– SUNY Digital Repository
– Non-SUNY Resources (e.g., MERLOT)
Open SUNY - Policy Implications
• Campus Support
– The Office of the Provost will provide financial and programmatic support to campuses for the development of Open SUNY resources
– Revenue models are being developed to illustrate campus based incentives
Open SUNY Online Advisory Team
• Chancellor Accepted All Recommendations:
– Assessment of Prior Learning
– Exploration of Creation and/or consumption of MOOCs
– Expanding research of Online Teaching & Learning
– Promotion of Innovation and Academic Excellence to reduce student cost, debt and time to degree.
• Build capacity through Open Access Journals, Open Education Resources (OER), Open Textbooks, and Open Courseware
Broadening the Conversation
• Understanding Campus Needs
– Wide variance in campus level support for online course and program development
– Exploring how Office of the SUNY Provost can assist campus-based efforts
– Expanding service and software contracts to provide students and faculty with a richer and more secure online experience
Broadening the Conversation• Progress Underway:
– SUNY Learning Commons migrating to full production
– Innovative Instruction Technology Grants program entering second year of funding:
• E Portfolio, E-Textbooks & OER development (Mark Ludwig, Dean Hendrix, Ben Wagner)
• Gaming & Simulation (Multiple Projects) (Deborah Waldrop, Steve Sturman, Mary Ann Meeker, David Milling, Karen Zinnerstrom, Tony Guzman, Katharina Dittmar, Jessica Poulin & Bina Ramamurthy)
• Assessment (Christine Kroll)
• Digital Literacy (Robin Sullivan, Cyndi Tysick)
Broadening the Conversation
• Opportunities to Participate:
– FACT2 Task Groups (www.fact.suny.edu)
• Learning Analytics
• Developmental Education
• E-Portfolio (Brenda Battleson, LIS)
– Task Groups now realizing support of Open SUNY:
• Learning Environments (Lisa Stephens)
• Intellectual Property (Beth Adelman, Bob Reis)
• E-Textbooks (Charles Lyons)
Broadening the Conversation• Opportunities to Participate:
– SUNY Sponsored Conferences
• Conference on Instruction & Technology (CIT)
• SUNY Technology Conference (STC) includes EdTOA
• SUNY Library Association (SUNYLA)
• SUNY Online (SOL Summit)
• Wizard (IT and Enterprise System Support)