Empire State College and the Conflicted Legacy of Progressive Higher Education

2017 ◽  
pp. 29-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wayne Carr Willis
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
State College ◽  
Empire State College

scholarly journals FROM POSTS TO PATTERNS: A METRIC TO CHARACTERIZE DISCUSSION BOARD ACTIVITY IN ONLINE COURSES

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine A. Bliss ◽  
Betty Lawrence
Keyword(s):  
Online Courses ◽  
Large Data ◽  
Discussion Board ◽  
Discussion Boards ◽  
Participation Rates ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Mathematics Courses ◽  
State College ◽  
Empire State College

Asynchronous text based discussion boards are included in many online courses, however strategies to compare their use within and between courses, from a disciplinary standpoint, have not been well documented in the literature. The goal of this project was to develop a multi-factor metric which could be used to characterize discussion board use in a large data set (n=11,596 message posts) and to apply this metric to all Mathematics courses offered in the January 2008 term by the Center for Distance Learning at Empire State College. The results of this work reveal that student participation rates, quantity of student posts, quality of student posts and the extent of threading are well correlated with instructor activity.

scholarly journals Defining and teaching information literacy: Engaging faculty and the Framework

2019 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Dolinger
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
State College ◽  
Teaching Information

For librarians at Keene State College, the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education solidified moving away from one-shot instruction sessions and toward initiatives that would better integrate information literacy into the curriculum. This approach meant moving away from the idea that librarians must be teaching information literacy and instead adapting the idea that faculty within the discipline are best positioned to teach information literacy through their disciplinary context.

scholarly journals Faculty Perception toward Online Education in a State College in the Philippines during the Coronavirus Disease 19 (COVID-19) Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rome B. Moralista ◽  
Ryan Michael Flores Oducado
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Academic Dishonesty ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Academic Rank ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
State College ◽  
Research Findings

This research determined the perception toward online education among faculty in a State College in the Philippines. This study used a descriptive online survey involving a sample of 27 faculty members. Statistical tools employed were descriptive statistics, Mann-Whitney U test and Kruskal-Wallis test. Research findings indicated that the majority of faculty had intermediate computer competency and had no training in online teaching with only a few having a very stable internet connection. Faculty considered that online education will result to more academic dishonesty, will be impersonal and lack feeling compared to face-to-face classes, and will be difficult to manage in terms of technology. Additionally, faculty were undecided if they are in favor of online education. The faculty significantly differed whether they are in favor of online education based on age, sex, college, educational attainment, years in teaching, academic rank, level taught and employment status. Faculty of Higher Education Institutions must be provided with continued support and training as they adapt into the new normal in the higher education landscape and as they embrace the instructional challenges brought by the Coronavirus disease 19 pandemic.

Counter College: Third World Students Reimagine Public Higher Education

2015 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 413-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Ethnic Studies ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Education History ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
The Past ◽  
State College ◽  
San Francisco State College

In 1969, the discipline of Ethnic Studies emerged and was implemented at a handful of colleges throughout the country, most notably at San Francisco State College where the first School of Ethnic Studies was established that year. The idea of devoting space within traditional educational institutions to the study of a particular race or ethnicity has existed since at least the 1920s when Carter G. Woodson proposed Negro History Week and encouraged the study of African American history. While Black Studies is thus the oldest of such fields within American education history, its establishment within higher education is tied to the establishment of the larger discipline of Ethnic Studies. Ethnic Studies encompasses the critical study of racial and ethnic histories and cultures and it incorporates a wide variety of methodologies. The course of the discipline throughout the past forty years has resulted in a variety of approaches to this study, thus generalizing about the field as it exists today is complicated. One thing that may be said about Ethnic Studies in its current iteration, however, is that it bears little resemblance to the proposals that ushered it into existence.

Instructing Faculty to Develop and Deliver Distance Courses with Computer Network Technology

1998 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 315-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel V. Eastmond ◽  
Betty H. Lawrence
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Computer Network ◽  
New York State ◽  
Network Technology ◽  
Design Development ◽  
State College ◽  
Evaluation Procedures ◽  
Empire State College ◽  
Distance Courses ◽  
E Mail

The Center for Distance Learning (CDL) at SUNY Empire State College offers over 100 undergraduate courses each term to approximately 2200 students located in New York State and throughout the country. These courses are delivered across a range of delivery formats—from tutor telephone and e-mail interaction with students to computer conferencing on the Web. To meet the increasing need for faculty to effectively incorporate computer network technology into its courses, CDL has developed useful instructional activities and materials. These resources outline various instructional design, development, delivery, and evaluation procedures for faculty to follow in using Internet technologies appropriately for student learning. This article presents a typology of delivery techniques and discusses how CDL has trained and supported its faculty with each type of technology.

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