Suffolk County Community College

Eastern Campus Instructional Technology Plan

September 18, 1998

ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE

Respond programmatically to broad based community needs

Develop curricula in the following areas: Computer Animation/Digital Video, Computer Information Systems (reinstate), Convention Management, Design Architecture, Education Transfer, Environmental Science, Geographical Information Systems, Certified Nursing Assistant, Golf Course Management, Technical Communications and Digital Imaging.

Enhance and support the teaching/learning of the new photography curriculum by adding electronic, media, and print resources to the library collections.

Provide municipal employee training and geographically based data analysis for social sciences.

Introduce and adapt computerized economic data into economics courses.

Meet demands of new student demographics/technical applications of college writing: ESL, Technical writing, computer-based developmental instruction

Promote alternative modalities for service delivery, including flexible scheduling, learning labs, distance learning, and non-credit courses

Enhance the College's ability to provide course work access to students through distance education

Identify and design a distance education program utilizing a digital satellite send and receive system or through cable TV. Install a digital satellite send and receive system.

Integrate e-mail technology into the English curriculum by upgrading facilities, analyzing writing-intensive courses in suitable disciplines, and implementing strategies that will promote effective teaching and learning, with initial emphasis on EG21, EG13, and EG11.

Develop academic skills for life-long learning

Enhance the teaching of the research process and research skills incorporating leading edge technology so that 1 section of LR-15 and two sections of LR-11 can be offered each semester.

LEADING EDGE TECHNOLOGY

Integrate appropriate technologies into the teaching and learning process

Design and develop a smart classroom on the Eastern Campus

Replace outdated media equipment over a 5 year period

Develop instructional, administrative and faculty workgroups to enhance academic excellence and provide a mechanism to bring leading edge technology into the classroom

Purchase equipment for photography and graphic design courses that meets industry standards for continuous technology training for faculty, staff, and students.

Enhance teaching of social science and business courses through the integration with emerging technology so that new applications, such as GIS, can be introduced and existing courses can be updated by 6/30/2000.

Establish a faculty/student math and science resource center in Shinnecock Building, Room 119.

Use technology for classroom presentations and student tutoring and use area for small group exercises, tutoring, and faculty/student collaborations.

Redesign and upgrade computer classrooms (O-201, O-237) and open lab facilities in order to enhance the teaching of courses/curricula requiring windows-based computer applications.

Upgrade server and operating system for networked computer classrooms and open lab.

Evaluate and improve the application of technology of computer-based tutorials for college (credit) courses and developmental (non-credit) course by designing an up-to-date networked multi-station computer lab by June 30, 2000. Evaluate new tutorials for credit courses. Implement an improved training program for staff tutors.

Enhance the teaching/learning process by providing local area network (LAN) in the library and mobile computer carts for the classrooms.

Support development of smart classrooms and distance learning.

To bring cutting-edge instructional methods into the classroom and laboratory

To purchase and instruct science faculty in the use of Elmo to allow them to incorporate this presentation tool in their labs as a way to demonstrate technique such as dissections to entire class

Establish an electron microscopy lab in the Shinnecock Science Building.

Expose lab science students to the use of the newest and most sophisticated laboratory equipment--starting with the most basic piece of equipment, the microscope.

Create a DNA techniques course(s) in the Science Laboratory Technology Program.

Redesign S116 into state-of-the-art Chemistry/Physics Lab.

Include DNA techniques training in the SLT program's biology courses (BY35 and BY40)

Implement a system for upgrading existing equipment to meet industry standards for continuous technology training for faculty, staff, and students.

Continuously upgrade the Fine Arts Macintosh lab for the graphic design and photography courses.

Redesign ASC to accommodate multi-station computer lab/Learning Plus pilot; Evaluate computer lab furniture; Evaluate storage devices/shelves to accommodate software and printed materials

Design mobile computer carts (computers on wheels)

Increase access for science and math faculty and secretaries to cross-platform computers. Involve staff in developing instructional support materials using computer technology.

Obtain NSF support through its advanced technical education program for 2-year colleges for analytical (chemical/environmental) equipment.

Incorporate Scanning Electron Microscopy into the Science Laboratory Technology Program.

Integrate CAD into Landscape Design curriculum.

Improve the quality of instruction in Anatomy and Physiology I and II by making a variety of learning methodologies, enrichment, and review opportunities available to students.

Implement continuous technology training for faculty, staff, and students

Provide ongoing training for faculty and staff in the use of new software and hardware.

Purchase software appropriate to new academic initiatives and provide training in the use of the new software.

Encourage the faculty to integrate technology into the curricula in order to keep the academic programs current for both terminal and transfer programs so that 100% of faculty and administrators will attend two TLC in-service training sessions by June 30, 2000.

Expand the environmental technology training in the Science Laboratory Technology Program by creating course in advanced instrumental analysis.

Implement technology training for Biology and Horticulture programs and upgrade the botany/biology lab to support instruction in tissue culture, protoplast fusion, and more advanced work with the effects of plant hormones.

Provide students with up-to-date software to enhance computer skills required in current business environment.

Develop and maintain a dynamic curriculum with diverse course offerings in computers and information systems.

Provide faculty with up-to-date equipment and software to enhance computer skills required to current business environment

Expand faculty access to current computing technology

Investigate feasibility of creating a largely paperless Admissions/Registrar's office.

To enhance the delivery of services to student so all students can access and process information electronically.

To provide student access to on-line registration, financial aid and counseling services, and Internet access to students and professional staff.

Expand the environmental technology training in the Science Lab Tech program by creating courses in advanced instrumental analysis.

Improve communication among students, faculty, and staff through the use of emerging technologies

Enhance communication among all campus groups by providing real-time satellite teleconferences on campus.

STUDENT GROWTH

Emphasize a student-centered approach to learning and service delivery

Establish demonstration Math and Science Resource Center and expand the Math and Science Resource Center into a math lab and science/technology Learning Center.

EXPANDED PARTNERSHIPS

Develop a moderated, campus-college news group on a computer network server that can be accessed by faculty and administration to discuss campus and college issues with colleagues.

REVITALIZED COLLEGE COMMUNITY SPIRIT

Enhance open communications to promote staff morale

Train faculty and secretarial staff in multi-platform, multi-task computer applications and place computer stations within faculty offices.

Support a comprehensive program of faculty and staff development

Train secretarial staff in multi-platform multi-task computer applications and place computer stations within faculty offices.

Place computer stations in faculty offices