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MCC Presenters at SUNY CIT


The 25th Annual Conference on Instruction & Technology (CIT) was held at SUNY Potsdam May 31 through June 3, 2016.  Established in 1992, the CIT is SUNY's largest and most prominent event on instructional technology in education, providing a forum for faculty, instructional support professionals, and policymakers to present, discuss, and explore innovative avenues for integrating technology into the teaching and learning environment.

This year’s theme “Students at the Center: Creating and Sharing Learning Experiences” was supported by the following tracks:

- Open Educational Resources: Strategies, Advantages, and Savings for Students and Faculty in Practice
- Engaging Students: Tools and Strategies
- Inquiry: Scholarship, Discovery, and Innovation
- Student and Faculty Support: Access and Accessibility
- Going Mobile

MCC’s Director of Library Services, Mark McBride, served on the CIT 2016 Planning Committee.  Assistant Directors from Library Services, Katie DeRusso and Alice Wilson, were recognized for volunteering their time to facilitate sessions and workshops at the CIT.  The following MCC employees collaborated together with professionals from state colleges on presentations, sessions, panels and workshops:

Mark McBride presented “The Open Education Research Lab at the University of Buffalo” with Sam Abramovich, University of Buffalo.   He also presented “SUNY OER: Improving Faculty Discovery and Adoption” with professionals from Fulton-Montgomery Community College, Herkimer College, The College at Brockport, Buffalo State College and Corning Community College.  “A Framework for Open Educational Resources Across SUNY:  Report of the FACT2 OER Task Group” was co-presented by Mark and colleagues from Tompkins Community College, SUNY System Administration, Jamestown College, and Lunen Learning.  Mark’s fourth presentation was “Can We Afford Not to Listen?: Textbook Affordability From Users’ Perspectives, Based on Findings from Surveys Related to Textbook Affordability and OER on Three SUNY Campuses” with co-presenters from Buffalo State College and Fulton Montgomery Community College.

Alice Wilson presented an Ignite Session on “Revamping Library Orientation to Better Support Developmental Students.” 

Katie DeRusso and Alice Wilson co-presented a session with Carleen Huxley (Jefferson Community College) and Logan Rath (SUNY Brockport) entitled “SUNY Information Literacy Portal Year Two:  Creating and Curating Content.”  Katie presented a Poster Session, “Library Blackboard Integration” with MCC’s Pam Czaja, librarian, and Andrea Gilbert, instructional design specialist.

Andrea Gilbert presented two Ignite Sessions on “Attendance Templates in Blackboard” and “Online Student Orientation.” 

Bill Drumright, anthropology/history/political science/sociology, and Andrea Gilbert co-presented on “Using Rubrics, Goals, and Evaluation Data to Improve Critical Thinking Skills in an Online History Course.”

Jeremy Case, specialist, instructional technologies, presented on “Setting Up a Lecture Capture Facility."

Tom Capuano, instructional design specialist, and Christy Fogal, Mathematics Department, co-presented “Hello From the Other Side:  Our Journey Through the Open SUNY + OSCQR Process.”  Tom co-presented with five other professionals (from SUNY Central, Herkimer College, Binghamton University, and Keuka College) on “Review and Refresh– How Four Campuses are Ensuring Online Course Quality and Using the OSCQR Rubric.”  He also led a workshop on “Open Your Course with Ease:  Tips, Advice, and Exercises for Smoothly Transitioning Your Course Toward OER” with colleagues from Buffalo State College, SUNY Geneseo, Fulton-Montgomery Community College, and Clinton Community College.

For more details, please reference the attached.

Terry Keys
Instructional Services
06/28/2016


Attachments:
icon CIT25 2016 MCC Presentations.pdf