Two SUNY Oneonta Projects Receive Funding from Innovative Instruction Technology Grant Program

Two SUNY Oneonta projects are among 33 recipients of the 2013 Innovative Instruction Technology Grants (IITG) program, which funds campus innovations and initiatives that have the potential to be replicated throughout the SUNY system and benefit students and faculty worldwide.

The Center for Computational Research at the University at Buffalo and SUNY Oneonta will pilot a collaborative virtual community, enabling undergraduate students opportunities to create, manipulate and analyze large multi-terabyte datasets. This extends SUNY Oneonta’s “Big Data on Smaller Campuses,” a highly successful IITG-funded collaboration between SUNY Oneonta, UB, Penn State and IBM.

The other project for SUNY Oneonta is Enriching Teaching Field Experience Through Technology. This project builds upon an established partnership school relationship between SUNY Oneonta and the Morris Central School District. A team of two education students will engage in a field experience that includes the use of technology in instruction for high school English classes over the course of one year.

IITG is a competitive grants program open to SUNY faculty and staff across all disciplines. Grant recipients will openly share project outcomes, enabling SUNY colleagues to replicate and build upon an innovation. Several projects included collaborations by two or more campuses.